Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Sunny Akhigbe, 44, bodybuilder, fitness model, trainer, and actor.
I started working and training at a YMCA in LaPorte, Indiana. My body started transforming. People started saying, “Why don’t you go compete?” I said, “What does that mean?” I never heard about it. So I started training heavily and eating right, and I went to compete. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was ready. So when I stepped onstage, I won the whole show, I won the division, I won overall. Now I am an [International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness] pro.
