Jamie Eason: Fitness Model on Top After Beating Cancer
From CBSNews.com
We’ve all had our ups and downs, but few have had such highs and lows at such a young age as 34-year-old fitness model Jamie Eason.
After a few entry-level office jobs following college, Eason went to work for her family’s roofing company in Texas. But being chained to a desk was not for her, she realized.
While managing a crew of roofers, she tried out to become a Cheerleader for the Houston Texans – and got the job. Life was going great.
Great, that is, until she found a suspicious lump in her breast.
It turned out to be cancer. She had a lumpectomy, and eventually all was well. Except that she had missed so many practices that she had to quit the cheer leading squad and had to take a job as a computer instructor.
Four years later, she realized that she was what she calls “skinny fat.”
“I was soft and flabby,” she tells CBS News. “I had cellulite. I drank Dr. Pepper and ate Goldfish and fast food almost every day.”
It was her wake-up call. She hired a personal trainer and visited a nutritionist, and the new and improved Jamie Eason was born.
“Within a few disciplined months, my body began to transform,” she says. “I felt physically fit and emotionally, I had a true sense of accomplishment and well-being.”
She won the first fitness competition that she entered, and since then has graced the covers of countless magazines including Oxygen, Muscle & Development, and Fitness.
“I realized I had found a path for my life,” she says.
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My sister-in-law is 34 and on top as well. A form of cancer was detected in her nasal area, four years ago. While undergoing chemotherapy treatments, she steadily persisted and completed her MBA degree. She is now employed in a district managerial role for a public school system. Her undergraduate degree is in Food & Nutrution from Texas Women’s University (TWU). She too, has had her ups and downs (very recently in fact) but I remain her cheerleader.