What would you recommend to others who want to be fit and healthy?

Start small, cut sugar, drink water, make healthier meal choices, go for walks. Once you see how easy it is then make larger goals, it will become addicting I promise!

How does fitness positively influence your life?

Fitness is my time away to clear my head from daily stress. It's been my rock through grief and my happy place away from home. Competing in figure helps me push my body to its limits and beyond and I love that.

If you were the next Ms Health and Fitness, what would you do with $20,000?

I would pay off the debt incurred due to surgery on my wrist and get the portrait of my youngest brother added to my back so even though both my younger brother's are no longer in this world they will always be with me.