Ms.December Nathalia Melo

Height 5ft 5in

Weight 124 lbs

Birthdate Jan 19, 1984

Home Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

Occupation Fitness Management Group Athlete/IFBB Bikini Pro

I have always been a very active person; I swam for 12 years when i was younger, and always liked to go to the gym and spend hooooooours there (it used to drive my mom crazy!). I always wanted to do something fitness related, but in Brazil Fitness/Figure/ Bikini Competitions are not so big, and i never thought that I was capable of doing such a thing. About a year ago I started working out in a different gym, and one of the girls who works there, and is an IFBB Figure Pro, kept on telling me that I should compete, then i thought to myself ”WHY NOT?”. At that point in my life I was feeling a little ”lost” and with no goals in life; I kinda felt like I was walking in circles , then i decided to try something that i had always thought that wasn’t capable of doing, and prove to myself that ”I CAN’T” doesn’t exist when you start beliving in yourself. That’s when i contacted Shannon Dey and Rob Roseti and became a member of Team Bombshell, and then competed at the Fort Lauderdale Cup and won the Overall (wohoooo!!), got signed by FMG, had a full page on Flex, got my Pro- Card , and now being featured as the Wallpaper of the Week on bodybuilding.com. I feel very blessed for the things I have achieved, but the best lesson i have got from all this is that YES, I CAN, and that staying true to yourself, hard work and discipline always pay off!