Maria Shriver and Kellie Everts

Maria Shriver and Kellie Everts 1979 

          Maria Shriver joined Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Warminster, Pa. fbb show, where she expected to see Kellie Everts. She said Arnold had said ‘Kellie will be here.” But she wasn’t, so Maria called Kellie in NYC and proposed a documentary. {Kellie wanted to compete in the show but her Dad died and she went all the way to Spain for the funeral. She was fasting & bore her perfect weight, but her grief prevailed. Her body did look immaculate at 132 lbs, however and you can see in Maria’s documentary how good she looked.}

This resulted in the nine minute saga of {1} Kellie praying in St. Malachy’s Church, W.49^th St, {2} training at Mid City Gym, 345 W 42^nd St and {3} Preaching and Stripping at Harlow’s Club 242 E 79^th.  When she finished the piece at the gym, she literally had to run through the streets of New York in her red velvet bathrobe covering the skimpy suit to her next show at Harlows – no one took notice, ‘only in New York.’

          Maria loved the sermon as Kellie stated anyone who disrespected the Holy Virgin did not deserve Heaven – she nodded as Kellie glanced at her.

          They portrayed Kellie’s entire act, including the nudity – you could see her breasts swinging in the air –the details fuzzed out by camera.

          When Maria appeared to Kellie, she was ‘dressed down’ - no makeup, plain as can be. And when she said her boyfriend was a body builder Kellie asked which one. She said “his name is Arnold.”

          “Arnold Schwarzenegger?”

          Kellie asked in disbelief. She said yes. She had promised Maria an amusing anecdote re Arnold but when she saw her eyes like pools of love in the moonlight, she changed her mind. No need to hurt her, she made up some triviality.

          But Maria did not keep her promise to give Kellie a copy of the tape. She could not even see the show as it was local to Baltimore, Md. But when she worked at the 2 o’Clock Club she popped over to the station to ask for a copy. The manager, a cold young man, sat her down in his cubicle.

          He said sternly,

          “It is not our policy to give out copies of the show”

          He did say the show had the highest ratings that month.

          “Can’t you make an exception?”

          “Absolutely not”

         He then excused himself on some errand. Kellie sat there and pulled out her rosary and prayed. The Inner Voice told her,

          “Get up and walk.”

          She did so and a minute later came upon a cubicle where a young man sat with her picture on his desk in a frame!

          They exchanged greetings, he was warm as toast. Kellie asked him if he could make her a copy of her show. He said sure, & quickly did it.

          She took the precious tape and went back to the manager’s cubicle where he promptly returned and said,

          “You still here?”

          “I was just leaving,”

          and exited. 

          Condensed version: 

          In 1979 Maria Shriver, the future wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger produced a nine minute documentary on Kellie Everts, which featured her praying in a Church, training in a gym, and preaching/strip teasing at a Club. It was the most popular presentation of that month at the station in Baltimore, Md.

          Of Kellie’s many books there are three that cover her body building stint. They are:

          “The Man Whisperer”  {2024  page 110 with rare photos} – which gives a Time Table of all she did in the sport:

          https://www.lulu.com/shop/pete-jackson-and-william-bond-and-rasa-von-werder/the-man-whisperer/paperback/product-v8j9q5k.html?page=1&pageSize=4         

          “I Strip for God” part 9 – The Life in my Men  {2022 page 124}

          Documents the relationships of Kellie Everts which were Mr Universe, Mr Americas: Mickey Hargitay, Vern Weaver, Harold Poole, Franco Columbu, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dennis Tinerino, Boyer Coe, Chris Dickerson and Reg Lewis

          https://www.lulu.com/shop/rasa-von-werder/i-strip-for-god-part-9/paperback/product-m8572p.html?page=1&pageSize=4

           The Origin and Decline of Female Body Building  {2009}

Explains how the genre of female body, at that time did not exist, how it got started, flourished, and began to decline after the year 2000, when men got frightened by Kim Chizevsky and changed the rules. Then when Weider sold out to AMI IN 2003 it was relegated down to a subculture. 

  https://www.lulu.com/shop/kellie-everts/the-origin-decline-of-female-body-building/paperback/product-1v8555jy.html?page=1&pageSize=4