During college, exercise consisted of watching the women of ESPN’s Bodyshaping, Fitness Beach, and Kiana Tom’s Flex Appeal exercise throughout the morning while nursing a hangover. The cast on these shows rotated, but the main core consisted of Kiana Tom, Jennifer Dempster, Page Langton, Kathy Derry, Deprise Brescia, the overaged Mary Jean Traetta, Shawnae Jebbia, and Leeann Tweeden. Out of the group, Kiana Tom made headlines after posing for Playboy, and Tweeden has gone on to become a frat house name. The rest faded away, although Kathy Derry keeps a website.

So my question to you is this…who was your favorite ESPN fitness girl? Unless you went to college between 1995 and 2002, chances are you never saw the show since it was on in the morning when most people are at work. Or did you prefer Denise Austin over the girls of ESPN?

The shows no longer air (to my knowledge), but there still is a bodyshaping website and swimsuit gallery.

Here’s some evidence why someone might say that Shawnae Jebbia was their favorite. It’s a clip from a thong contest, and it is undoubtably her as she says her name during the interview.


Denise Austin

Update: Well it seems the video has been pulled from youtube, however Shawnae has submitted a video to become a contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

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