350-Pound Olympic Weightlifter Holley Mangold Gets Pre-London Makeover
- Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:22pm by
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Olympic darling Holley Mangold can lift between 300 and 500 pounds above her shoulders, according to the New York Times, but considers plucking her eyebrows “awful.”
The New York Times explains:
When you’re a big, strong girl — a really big, strong girl — it’s easier to pull the table to your chair than to scoot your chair toward the table. Doorknobs need to be tightened, or you might pull them off. Holley Mangold, 22 and a superheavyweight Olympic weight lifter, is 5-foot-8 and weighs 350 pounds. When she squats, which she can do with 525 pounds on her shoulders, she looks almost wholly like an egg. “I get a lot of Creepy McCreepersons interested in me because I’m so big it’s not normal, it’s like a fetish,” she [said] one day in the gym. “And I don’t like to sit outside. Not because I don’t like to be outside, but usually there are plastic chairs. Once you break a couple plastic chairs, you’re afraid of them all.”
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“What do you think of my makeup, good or whorish?” Mangold asked [her friend, lifting partner, and agent Drew Dillon] one late afternoon this spring when they met at the Y to lift. Mangold was trying to perfect what she called her “professional makeup look” in advance of London. Dillon shrugged…
Now, the sister of the New York Jets’ Nick Mangold is getting professional assistance to prepare for the upcoming Olympic games in London.
“I feel like women weightlifters try to be too feminine just to show that they’re still feminine,” Mangold cautioned. “I don’t do that. I try to have a nice balance.”
She added: “I don’t want to be small,” she said. “That would be awful. Nobody remembers the skinny girl’s name.”
Watch the transformation, via The Daily:
The athlete seemed pleased with the results in the subsequent photo shoot.
“They look really beautiful…they’re coming out really nice,” the photographer said of the photos.
Jokingly shaking her head, Mangold said: “Well, that’s [because] I’m in the picture.”
But in the end, her mind is still on the competition.
“I think what I’m looking forward to the most is having the opportunity to represent my country. It’s the ultimate test of what you can do. I’m just really excited to go out there with the red, white, and blue and represent my country the best way I know how.”
Here are some more photos of Mangold and her accomplishments:






















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Comments (205)
Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:06amMy Wife ! A few more Ring Dings and she’s there !!
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:03am@SKREW
That’s hysterical ! lmao !!
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:53amBest of luck to you at the Olympics, Holly! Haters gonna hate, but none of them have ever qualified for the Olympics and at age 22!! USA! USA! USA! :D
As for the rest of you calling her fat…you’re ugly on the inside.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:09amDid you say something ?
laxman63
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:12amCould not have said it better myself ArmyWifeNiz!
Those deriding her because of her weight sound like Progressive Trolls to me, rather than caring, considerate human beings. JMHO!
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:14amFat? Oprah is fat. This girl is morbidly obese and will probably not live to be forty.
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:16amI spoke non-troll…that may be why you didn’t understand.
Report Post »scion88
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:17amShe’s not fat…she’s big boned!
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:30amGland problem ..
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 4:42amSeriously, you‘re encouraging a 350 lb woman that she doesn’t have a weight problem? This story really touched a nerve with a lot of the female blaze readers because they are obviously self-conscious about their own weight. 350 lbs isn’t healthy…and she’s 22 years old….Don’t expect her to live a long and fulfilling life.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 4:44am@POUNCING PORCUPINE, you say she’ll never live to be 40? Well, if she does, it will be 12 years longer than Amy Winehouse.
Report Post »ArmyWifeNiz
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 6:38am@V15…My irritation is with the ugly nature of the people on here that feel the need to verbally destroy her in spite of her amazing accomplishments just because she is 300 pounds. You accuse women on here of feeling guilty due to our own struggles with weight, I contend that you are being an a$$due to your inherent douchi-ness, and you can’t go on a diet to loose that.
Report Post »NealPatrick
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 7:10am“her amazing accomplishments” – Which are?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:57am@ Neal – so how many US Olymoic Teams have you been on? Or when did being on the US Olympic Team begin to be a non-accomplishment?
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:11pm@ARMYWIFE, I’m in great shape because I free climb 3-5 days/week and hike. I want to continue to perform better and climb continually harder routes so that’s why I train. Yes, I come off as a jerk about this story because I have a problem with morbidly obese people. To me, they are just as irresponsible as a heroin addict. The problem is our society has become so politically correct because people take no responsibility for their actions anymore. From my perspective, it’s morally wrong to delude and encourage a morbidly obese person to continue their lifestyle.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:27amSo…how long have you and the other-half been divorced?
Report Post »eaglescout1998
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:11amAt least she looks like a real woman. Some of these female weightlifters and bodybuilders are downright scary looking.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:22amYup. I bet she rules the roost, too.
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:01pmGiven that she could probably pick my 178 lb a$$ up and throw me across the room, yes she would rule the roost!
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:40amI am afraid that just one look at such a “female” may convert a normal male into a gay.
Skrewedretiree
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:24amWell, I bet you are wrong. Never spent six months at sea, have you?
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:56am@Skrewed
Report Post »So…are you saying that after six months at sea you’d pretty much hit any random morbidly obese chick, or are you saying that six months at sea made you kwheer? Just wonderin’.
That_One_Guy
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:39amYa sure she is a bit large, but seriously- making fun of a person because of their looks? My how low this country has sunk.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:45amNot because of her look, but because of what she did to get such a look
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:49amWhat should worry you is that this country seemingly completely lost the slightest sense of aesthetics.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:04amA BIT ?! How big is your monitor ?!!
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 5:14amA bit large? Dude, she wouldn’t be able to fit her pic on the front of a Wheaties box!! Maybe if you put a crate of Wheaties boxes together – maybe!! I’m shocked at how many readers are condoning morbid obesity!!
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 7:29amI‘m pretty sure it’s not morbid obesity if you’re able to lift 500lbs OVER YOUR HEAD.
Report Post »She may not look like your dream girl but have no doubt, she could snap you like a twig and likely has more muscle than you have total bodyweight… unless YOU’RE morbidly obese.
Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 11:30am@BSDetector
Report Post »Recommend changing your moniker to “BSGenerator”.
v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:38amShe’ll have another piece of pie
She’ll have a double reuben rye
She kicks hard at eating well
That’s why I love her
She’s got a couple of pony kegs
Her arms are bigger than my legs
And when she holds me I can’t breathe
That’s why I love her
I‘m her butter she’ my bread
She’s like a mobile waterbed
And when I got on top of her
I can’t touch the mattress
And when her flesh begins to sag
She’s like a human sleeping bag
I feel so cozy safe and warm
She’s my insulation
I always know where she sat
And when she’s on me I get flat
Some broken ribs a punctured lung
That’s why I love her
She‘s my phillie I’m her stud
Her bean is bigger than my pud
It’s like feeding a tic-tac to a whale
That’s why I love her
Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:15amotflmao ………….
Thank You .. Have not laughed out loud for along time.
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:01pmROTFL!! Thanks
Report Post »txannie
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 5:57pmYou make me puke.
Report Post »trinklefinder
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:37amMaybe I’m just an underachiever but there is no amount of olympic gold that would make me willingly weigh 350 pounds
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 7:10amShe didn’t put on the weight in hopes of winning Olympic Gold – she was always overweight, she was a lineman on her high school football team, and after high school she took up competitive weight lifting.
I saw a report on HBO’s Real Sports about her and she seemed to have her head screwed-on right, she was healthy, and has a more active lifestyle than almost anyone I know outside of professional athletes.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:16amI’ll pay money to see the video of Holley beating the hell out of George Lopez.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:00amagreed.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:21amAnd some of the people putting her down here … I hope she gets GOLD!
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:30amLOL! Yes, I would pay money to see her beat the hell out of old Georgie too!
She may be BIG, but she’s probably a real woman, and if I argued against it, I bet she could whip me in a fair fight.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:20pmFinally, some comments that aren’t insulting. I felt like crying for that young woman, because of these crude and rude and uncaring comments. Hope she WINS Gold.
Report Post »Some of you hateful people are unbelievable.
Margyt
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:15amThe “bulk” of these comments are the worst piggery I have encountered in a long time. Here is a beautiful woman (look at her face you fat heads). So, how do you think she spends her days…eating bonbons or working out more than most of you will do in a lifetime? It would never occur to you bigots that she might have been born with the genetics for her build…in other words she might be doing quite well in being the person God made her to be. She’ll go home with the gold and you all will still just be pigs.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:30amSure, she spent millions of hours to achieve that result. It’s a heavy labor.
Report Post »And as useful and beautiful as barking at the moon.
When I see her with these 500 pounds above her shoulders, the very notion of “a woman,“ ”a lady” fades away. Brrrrrrrrr….
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:03amFat is not genetics. Fat is a choice, except for the very rare people with a true problem with hypothyroidism (what they used to call a glandular thing, back in the ol’ times).
I put in copious amounts of work in a gym, fwiw.
If she has a hypothyroidism problem, then I agree with you. Otherwise, not so much.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:12amI’m glad someone has some sense to say the truth which is “fat is not genetic” Take some responsibility for your actions, people. Obesity/Fat is a choice.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 3:06am@Margyt
I agree with you. As soon as I saw the headline I thought; well, some people are going to have a fied day with this. And so they did.
Some comments are funny, others just downright nasty.
As NZ doesn’t have a weightlifter competing against her, I congratulate her on getting this far and I wish her the very best of luck.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:04amAnyone need their fields plowed?
Report Post »It probably would’nt be cost effective.
The diesel bill would be far less than the food bill to keep her running.
BOGOTSTOGO
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:42pmIf obama had a daughter?? Never mind ,she couldn’t possibly be that talented.
Report Post »db321
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:55pmGood Lord! Giving her a Makeover is like giving a Pig a bath and a ribbon. It’s still a Pig!
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:12pmHe has two daughters one fat and one thin – both ugly.
At least this woman can lose weight and she would be quite good looking.
Obama’s daughters – like Bruce Willis’s daughters are just ugly.
Obama’s oldest has a weird elongated head (a cross between Herman Munster and Rocky Dennis {Mask/Cher Bono) and the middle of her face is pushed in (inherited that from her mother) with that added “hard” look also inherited from her mother. (Rocky Dennis http://edithmyrant.blogspot.com/2011/06/ode-to-rocky-dennis.html
Obama’s youngest daughter is fat but unlike this Olympic lifter – losing weight will not make her attractive. She has a melon head with mean sunken features and is just fugly.
Report Post »Aerocog
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:36pmImagine trying to deal with that woman’s size and strength if she ever went crazy?
Report Post »mils
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:58pmOkay, I don’t mean to be rude…seriously…but, to be this type of a weight lifter , in this class,do you need to be “fluffy”..can’t you just be muscle?
Report Post »As said, I’m not being rude, just curious.
john koenig
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:17am@CADISASTERRELIEF…Spot on. I live in Central Ohio and watched her play high school football. She was talented and dominant.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:54amIt’s when not if.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:06pmIs this what Sarah Palin was talking about when she commented about lipstick on a pig?
Report Post »Cadisasterrelief
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:00amWow! Really? This can’t be the generation I grew up in. This 22 year old woman would most likely shame all you “bullies” in the weight room AND with her list of small accomplishments like, I don’t know, maybe being in the Olympics 4 years ahead of schedule. It does make me wonder what superior physiques the negative posters have and how much time they dedicate to become regarded as one of the best in the U.S. at any one thing. Also I wonder if they would have the same attitude speaking with her brother, Nick Mangold who is 6’4”, weighs in at 307lbs and had a salary of over $2.2 million playing in the NFL. I bet the Mangold parents are wondering why their kids can’t be as successful as you negative posters.
Report Post »Kupo
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:07amCADISASTERRELIEF wins the internet!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:19amCadia, I’d eat your lunch in the weight room.
There is nothing attractive about loads of fat. The fat does not contribute to muscularity or skeletal strength. Even the “Russian Weight Lifters” who were barrel chested, were still solid as a rock.
I respect what this woman is accomplishing on the weight lifting. But let’s not sugar coat this. There are women in far better, less fat shape, that will eventually clean her clock. And rightly so.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:23amSorry, misread, thought you said you’d “shame me” in the weight room. This lady, the jury is out, I’d like to see her numbers. And her brother, well, we’re not far off, I’d like to see his numbers as well.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:57amShe’s only 22 years old? Man, she’s had a rough 22 years!
Report Post »laxman63
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:01am@GhostOfJefferson
“Even the “Russian Weight Lifters” who were barrel chested, were still solid as a rock.”
Gee, ghost, I don’t know how old you are, but you must not have been around in the ‘70’s when Soviet Super-heavyweight Vasily Alekseyev was posting all kinds of records. Go here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Alekseyev
for his bio. The accompanying photo is of Alekseyev and the Silver Medalist, Gerd Bonk of East Germany, taking the Medal stand in the ‘76 Olympics. Neither one looks, “solid as a rock” to me.
Here are more photos of Alekseyev
https://ixquick.com/do/search? throughout his career. Again, not a lot of “rock solid” pics there.
Just saying!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 5:58am@cadisasterrelief…She is FAT. Not muscular. The fat she has had on her body for many years has added to her strength because she has yo carry that lard a@@ around all day. Take it from a former 400 pounder myself. You can lose weight. lots of it, like I did. You also can lift heavy weights and be good at it, like I did…I am almost 60 and in grerat shape…I guarantee i would kick your a@@ in the gym as I spend almost every day there….and you will not be a big a@@ fat slob while beinmg a gym rat unless you eat like a PIG.
At 22…yep, she’s a pig, like it or not. Oink Oink. No discipline at all…
Report Post »ambivelentone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:37am@laxman63 I do notice that she was as much as him at his completive weight…and she’s 5 inches shorter…just saying.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:06pmI have a question.
Report Post »I’am not being a wise-ass.
Why do weightlifter’s have to be fat?
StatenJM
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:32pmThey don’t…
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:41pmNot being a wise ass – just being dumb.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:50pm@VOTEBUSHIN12
Have you ever been 350 lbs?
Report Post »I have and it was not any fun at all.
I now am at 198′
I can lift more now than when I was 350.
Now tell me who is dumb? Wise-ass.
marine249
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:55pm@VOTEBUSHIN12
On 2nd look, I may have taken your post
not the way you ment it.
If I did sorry.
My name is MARINE249 not wise-ass.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:49amNo you took it correctly the first time.
I never questioned your physical capabilities, but there wasn’t much reason to flaunt it. You suggested all weight-lifters are fat, this is not simply not true. Olympic Weightlifting is grouped into weight classes just like wrestling. Are you going to watch the heavy-weights wrestle and say all wrestlers are fat? Or are you going to use your brain and remember that there are feather-weights as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting
As I said before. You weren’t being a “wise-ass” you were just being slightly ignorant – aka DUMB.
Report Post »schmoozer
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:05pmFor those who made sarcastic remarks:
SHAME ON YOU!!!
This woman is representing your country in the upcoming Olympics and you have the audacity to make jokes??? What are YOU doing to justify your existence??? Or are you just wasting carbon….
Everyone who visit this website should be cheering her on to bring home the gold!!!!!
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:39pmI’m not the one parading a makeover around. Because I comment on her makeover status doesn‘t mean I don’t support her or not want her to succeed in the Olympics. I just don‘t think there’s enough make-up in the world that would make a 350lb weightlifter attractive to me. She‘s probably a dynamite person and someone I’d like and respect but it wouldn’t matter to me as far as looks go. And that‘s what makeover’s are about; looks.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:44amYou sound like a relative of mine.GB Shaw.
Report Post »What a curse.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:00amAl
You hit the nail on the head. If this were about her weightlifting only, I’d be with those booing the “downgraders”. She’s trying to make fat appear beautiful with a makeover. Well, it’s not. Except to those who find everything beautiful in order to “avoid hurting feelings”. I respect her accomplishments, except at makeover time, in which case if she wanted to look like a beautiful lady, she’d have chosen a different path. You cannot have it all, no matter who you are. Choose your path, and stick with it. With every rose there are bound to be thorns. Accept it.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 2:34amI wish Al Bundy was here !
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:16amI agree Shmoozer.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:56pmNow getting your fat ass out of bed is an Olympic sport ?
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:02pmMR.FITNAH, may you someday be personally introduced to Ms. Mangold. I guarantee you will be incredibly polite to her.
Report Post »Coyote6
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:39pmDude, that girl could bench press you!
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:38amIt;s just humor folks , take a deep breath.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 1:10amMR.FIT Sorry, but that’s not “humor”. It’s proof of stupidity.
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:50pmGreat confidence in this young lady!
Report Post »You go girl!
rickc34
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:46pmDo your best for God and Country. But forget about Obama he is a little skinny wimp.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:43pmNo amount of makeup is going to help her. I’m sorry.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:50pmNot even with a masonry trowel.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:51pmI take it back. It was unkind.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:39pmShe is doing what she desires in life.Too bad Obama is putting a stop to that. Your career will be chosen for you.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:29pmCalling Mr. and Mrs. Obama. Ms. Mangold has requested a pushup contest with the First Lady. The POTUS will judge if the FLOTUS, “goes all the way down”.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:44pmGood One !
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 5:10amI can smell the tuna from here !
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:26pmSo, when she puts on the Beret, all I am going to be thinking about is the Sta Puff Marshmellow man, from Ghostbusters.
Cross the streams.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:29pmthat line never gets old
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:34pmAre you crazy? DON”T cross the streams. It would be bad.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 10:25pmMakes me think of a National Lampoon cover with a parody photo of an East German female Olympiad back in the ’70s. LOL
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:44pmApril 1976! Except she wasn‘t as big as this year’s contestant.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 6:16amAL J ZIRA, Excellent memory. I was thinking it was closer to ‘74.
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