1919–1972
Biography · Sports
Ernestine Shepherd
1936–
United States
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Biography
Ernestine Shepherd (born June 16, 1936) is an American bodybuilder who is best known for being, at one point, the oldest competitive female bodybuilder in the world, as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 and 2011; as of 2025, she is 90 years old and still an active, albeit no longer competitive, bodybuilder.
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