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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

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