Iris Kyle
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Predecessor | Valentina Chepiga Lenda Murray Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia[13] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Andrea Shaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Active | Retired since 2022[12] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter;
Early life
Iris Floyd Kyle[22][23] was born on August 22, 1974[22] in Benton Harbor, Michigan,[22] the fifth of six children. Her early athletic endeavors included running cross country, basketball (point guard), softball (shortstop) and volleyball. She was an All-American in basketball, and received a number of athletic scholarship offers. Kyle attended Benton Harbor High School and continued her education at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi, on a basketball scholarship, majoring in business administration and minoring in accounting.[22][24][25][17]
Bodybuilding career
Amateur
Iris claims the reason she got into bodybuilding was when she and her family moved to
Iris recalls, "I remember the first time I saw a photograph of Lenda Murray in a magazine. I was in complete awe. I cut out that picture and placed it on my refrigerator and, from that point on, my goal was to develop a physique like hers." One day, a local promoter named Butch Dennis was in her gym and, after sizing her up, suggested she enter a competition he was hosting in 8 weeks, the Long Beach Muscle Classic. Her model for her physique was a combination of Lenda Murray and Bev Francis. She won the contest, the 1994 Long Beach Muscle Classic. From 1994 until turning pro, she was advised and coached by professional bodybuilder Patrick Lynn. After coming in 2nd in the middleweight category at the 1994 NPC Ironmaiden Championships, she began using performance-enhancing substances.[17][12]
Steve Wennerstrom, IFBB women's historian, wrote a photoreport in the Women's Physique World November / December 1996 issue called "Keep An Eye on Iris Kyle!". In the report he focused on her 1996 NPC California overall and heavyweight title win. He also wrote that "The 5-7, 144-pound Kyle showed a dazzling level of muscle definition to go with sound structural balance and a stage savvy that puts her physical qualities at the national level right now."
In 1996,
Professional
1999–2001
Iris began to distance herself from friends and family and to become very isolated, stating that she found this the best way to make gains. At her pro debut at the 1999 Ms. International, she placed 15th. As she passed Steve Wennerstrom back stage, she whispered to him, “THAT, will never happen again."
At the 2000 Ms International, Tazzie Colomb and Iris were both disqualified for diuretic use.[32] She won her first professional contest at the 2001 Ms. Olympia, winning the heavyweight title, but losing the overall Olympia title to Juliette Bergmann. Looking back, Iris maintains, "I sincerely believe that I was the rightful 2001 Overall Ms. Olympia. I'm not saying Juliette didn't display a nice overall package; I'm just saying I believe my physique was better."[22][33] [34]
2002–2005
In 2002, Lenda Murray returned from retirement to reclaim her Ms. Olympia title in 2002 and 2003, with Iris coming in second both times behind her idol. In 2004, Iris won both the overall and heavyweight titles of Ms. International and went on to beat Murray and win the overall and heavyweight title of the 2004 Ms. Olympia. In 2005, Iris skipped the Ms. International, and focused defending her Olympia title. However, in 2005, the IFBB changed the rules and abolished the weight class system for Ms. Olympia, along with the new '20 percent rule' requesting "that female athletes in Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure decrease the amount of muscularity by a factor of 20%". This allowed Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia to win both the 2005 Ms. International and dethrone Iris at the 2005 Ms. Olympia.[22]
2006–2014
In 2006, Iris rebounded by regaining both her Ms. International and Ms. Olympia titles. After the
Iris rebounded at the 2008 Ms. Olympia by winning the show. Iris went on to win both 2009 Ms. International and 2009 Ms. Olympia titles in the same year. At the 2010 Ms. International, Iris won her fifth Ms. International, surpassing Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia's four Ms. International wins, becoming the most successful Ms. International champion ever. She has gone on to win the 2010 Ms. Olympia and 2011 Ms. International and 2011 Ms. Olympia.[13] In 2012, she could not attend the 2012 Ms. International due to a leg injury.[40] Iris went on to win the 2012 Ms. Olympia and regained her Ms. International title in 2013. In 2013, she won her ninth overall Ms. Olympia, making her the most successful female professional bodybuilder of all time. In 2014, she won her tenth overall Ms. Olympia title, breaking her own previous record of nine overall Ms. Olympia titles.[13] After winning her tenth overall Ms. Olympia title, Iris stated that she was retiring from bodybuilding.[41]
2015–2022
On September 25, 2015, in an interview with Dave Palumbo, Iris announced she will be coming out of retirement to compete at the 2016 Wings of Strength Rising Phoenix World Championships.[42] Although she stated she wanted to compete at the 2016 Wings of Strength Rising Phoenix World Championships, Tim Gardner contacted her boyfriend, Hidetada Yamagishi and told him that she needed to qualify by either winning the 2016 Puerto Rico Pro, 2016 Toronto Pro Supershow, the 2016 Omaha Pro, the 2016 Chicago Pro, the 2016 Lenda Murray Pro AM, or the 2016 PBW Tampa Pro, or be one the top 7 IFBB female bodybuilder's to accumulative points implementing the IFBB Tier 4 point system. A follow-up call from her to Jim Manion’s office resulted in her being told that she does not have to qualify, as per International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness Professional League (IFBB Pro League) rules, which state that any former Olympia is automatically qualified to compete in any IFBB Pro League contest.
Both Tim Gardner and Jack Wood keep contacting Iris that she still needed to be approved by them and that meant to compete in another WOS show in order to qualify. She was later granted a special invite to the 2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships. Tim later contacted her on two separate occasions informing her that she can win the show based on her shape, not to worry about coming in with shredded glutes and she can come in soft. She also said that she was offered to do some work with them that she doesn't "agree with", but declined the offer. For the first time in her professional career, she got a coach, Patrick Tour, to prepare her for the 2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships. While Tim did later allow her a special invite to the 2016 Wings of Strength Rising Phoenix World Championships, she declined to compete, instead focusing on training her boyfriend, Hidetada Yamagishi, for the 2017 Arnold Classic Men's Physique and focusing on their business venture.[43][44]
In September 2016, in an interview with
In July 2020, Iris announced she was compete at the
Legacy
Iris is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever. She has a total of twenty professional bodybuilding titles, with ten overall and two heavyweight Ms. Olympia titles (more than any Mr. and Ms. Olympia titles than anyone) and seven overall and one heavyweight Ms. International titles (more than any Arnold Classic and Ms. International titles than anyone). In the September 2018 United Kingdom edition of Flex, Darren Nicholhurst, an editor for Flex, called for her to be inducted into the IFBB Professional League Hall of Fame, which has not had any new inductees since 2011. She also said she would like a different method of judging bodybuilding contests, with judges removed and giving the audience the ability to decide instead.[48]
She had previously been training partners with John Sherman and, since 2012, is currently training partners with Hidetada Yamagishi. She and Hidetada co-promote the NPC Worldwide Hidetada Yamagishi & Iris Kyle Japan Classic and another amateur bodybuilding show in Japan.[49]
Competition history
- 1994 National Physique Committee (NPC) Long Beach Muscle Classic – 1st
- 1994 NPC Ironmaiden Championships – 2nd (Middleweight)
- 1996 NPC Orange County Muscle Classic – 1st (Heavyweight (HW) & Overall (OA))
- 1996 NPC California – 1st (HW & OA)
- 1996 NPC USA Championships – 2nd
- 1997 NPC USA Championships – 3rd (HW)
- 1997 NPC Nationals – 4th (HW)
- 1998 NPC USA Championships – 1st (HW & OA)
- 1999 International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness (IFBB) Ms. International– 15th
- 1999 IFBB Pro World Championship – 2nd
- 1999 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 4th
- 2000 IFBB Ms. International – 3rd (HW; later disqualified)
- 2000 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 5th (HW)
- 2001 IFBB Ms. International – 2nd (HW)
- 2001 IFBB Ms. Olympia– 1st (HW)
- 2002 IFBB Ms. International – 2nd (HW)
- 2002 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 2nd (HW)
- 2002 IFBB General Nutrition Centers Show of Strength – 2nd (HW)
- 2003 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 2nd (HW)
- 2004 IFBB Ms. International– 1st (HW & OA)
- 2004 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st (HW & OA)
- 2005 IFBB Professional League (IFBB) Ms. Olympia– 2nd
- 2006 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2006 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2007 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2007 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2008 IFBB Ms. International – 7th
- 2008 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2009 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2009 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2010 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2010 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2011 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2011 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2012 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2013 IFBB Ms. International – 1st
- 2013 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st
- 2014 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 1st[22][13][26]
Best statistics
- Bench press - 375 lb (170 kg)[50]
- Biceps - 17 inches (43 cm)[6]
- Calves - 18 inches (46 cm)[6]
- Chest - 34 inches (86 cm)[6]
- Height - 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[6]
- Hips - 36 inches (91 cm)[6]
- On season weight - 130–170 lb (59–77 kg)[51][52][53][54][55][6][36][56][9][57][10][58][59][30][60][61]
- Quads - 29 inches (74 cm)[62]
- Thighs - 29 inches (74 cm)[6]
- Waist - 24 inches (61 cm)[6]
Other interests
Media appearances
On September 9, 2008, Iris made an appearance on episode 9, "The Special Episode", of
Iris appeared in the trailer for the unfinished film A:B - We are Sisyphos and was supposed to play the character "Dina" in the film.[67] She appeared in the 2013 bodybuilding documentary ASF25 – A Documentary. She and her ex-boyfriend, Hidetada Yamagishi, appeared as themselves in the 2017 bodybuilding documentary film Generation Iron 2.[68] She also appeared in the 2017 music video by Katy Perry titled Katy Perry Feat. Nicki Minaj: Swish Swish.[68][69]
Footage of her was used in the following television episodes:
Business
Since July 1998, Iris has been an advanced personal trainer who runs her own online training and nutritional business, Healthier by Choice.
Real estate
Iris is a real estate agent with ERA Realty.[76]
Personal life
Iris previously lived in
Iris' current boyfriend is Marc Goldstein who is a finance executive. She had previously been in a 7-year relationship with her training and business partner Hidetada Yamagishi, along with previously dating bodybuilder John J. Sherman.[44] Despite having described her political views as liberal,[82] she voted for fellow bodybuilding icon Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, during his bid for Governor of California.[83] She is fluent in German and Spanish.[82][84]
See also
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