Black Women Do Workout and the Ageless Ernestine Shepherd

Ernestine Shepherd was the oldest competitive female bodybuilder in the world, as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 and 2011; as of 2011 she is 74 years old. In 2012 Edith Connor was declared the new oldest competitive female bodybuilder at age 77. Shepherd also leads exercise classes for seniors at the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in Baltimore, and works as a personal trainer. Shepherd had been a model in Baltimore for years, but at age 56 she and her sister Mildred Blackwe
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