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HEART-<br />
STOPPER<br />
> A FORMER HOOTERS<br />
WAITRESS AND A CURRENT<br />
REGISTERED NURSE, JANET<br />
LAYUG OPENS UP ABOUT<br />
BEING A MOM AND<br />
OVERCOMING HER SHY<br />
TENDENCIES TO MAKE IT ALL<br />
THE WAY TO THE BIKINI<br />
OLYMPIA.<br />
BY DAVE LEE ///<br />
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PER BERNAL<br />
ANET LAYUG IS TOO<br />
humble to say it, but she’s a<br />
powerhouse in the IFBB Pro<br />
League bikini division. Her résumé<br />
includes nine wins, two runnerups,<br />
and one third-place finish.<br />
Impressive for someone who first<br />
took up competing in 2013.<br />
But long before she was turning<br />
heads on bikini stages around the<br />
world, the stunner from Lakeland,<br />
FL, was doing it at Hooters, where she<br />
worked for seven years as a waitress.<br />
In between bringing diners their wings,<br />
she graced the Hooters calendar, won its<br />
International Swimsuit Pageant, became<br />
a registered nurse, and won the FLEX<br />
Bikini Model Search Ch<strong>amp</strong>ionships. Oh,<br />
and she’s a mom. Here’s how the selfprofessed<br />
shy 27-year-old burst out of<br />
her bubble to become one of the sport’s<br />
JULY/AUGUST <strong>2016</strong> MUSCLE & FITNESS 47