Paige Hathaway
Paige Hathaway
Paige Hathaway (born July 31, 1987) is a fitness model, entrepreneur and Instagram Star, she has been featured on the covers of many famous magazines, such as Fitness Gurls, Women's Health and Fitness, Oxygen, Inside Fitness, MOST, Livid Magazine, Muscular Development, Dakini Magazine and many others. [10]
She emerged second place at the 2012 Ronnie Coleman Classic, the biggest NPC statewide competition in the United States.
Early Life
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Paige was born as Paige Marie Hathaway on July 31, 1987 in Minnesota, United States. Her parents’ names are not known. She is the only child of her parents. [10]
Her father was an alcoholic and her parents got divorced, during that time, she moved from one parent to the other because of the battle for custody.
Police tracked them and when the police found them, they handed Paige over to her paternal grandmother.
She has also spent the next 13 years of her life between with some other relatives and foster care.[11]
While growing up, she always loved eating healthy and exercising and wanted to share her love for this with other and motivate them to live healthy.
She is a high school graduate; she was passionate about soccer when in high school.
She wanted to be a dentist when she grew up but she eventually went to university and graduated with a degree in sports medicine. [11]
Career
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She began her career when she was in college, a local trainer at the gym where she exercised asked her to compete in a fitness show, she declined so many times because she was enjoying her free life at college fully, partying with her sorority and didn’t want to be disturbed.
When she finally came out of that sorority phase, she finally accepted the offer and four the next four months she began strict dieting and training, which was tough.
All her hard work finally paid off, when she emerged second place at the 2012 Ronnie Coleman Classic, the biggest NPC statewide competition in the United States.
After her big win, her social media fame grew and she began showing off her built body on her Instagram account. She gained a large number of followers.
She went on to continue competing but lost in the two competitions she had entered.
But she didn’t give up, she wanted to be a fitness model, unfortunately, she was having financial struggles and was juggling between two jobs to pay her rent.[10]
Still very hopeful, she sent her portfolio to almost every publication she had heard of, she heard back from Women’s Health Magazine but they couldn’t sign her because she had no agency representing her.
When she visited 2012 Olympia Expo, she eventually got signed by a company called Shredz that provide nutritional supplements and fitness information.
She worked with them for three years.
In 2013, she was announced the winner of the FLEX August 2013 Bikini Model Search.She
has also been featured on the covers of many famous magazines, such as Fitness Gurls, Women's Health and Fitness, Oxygen, Inside Fitness, MOST, Livid Magazine, Muscular Development, Dakini Magazine and many others. [10]
She was a participant in the BodyPower UK Expo 2013 under the Gymshark team.
She has created her own membership program, which is available on her website, and she provides separate personalized diet and workout regimes for people that are interested.
Using her website, she also offers the "Fit in 5" challenge which claims to make the participants fit in 5 weeks.
“As I was trying to build a name for myself in fitness, I also saw the power and reach that social media had.
I knew that it was a way I could reach others and could be a powerful tool to inspire other people by simply sharing who I am and my own fitness journey” [11]
She says,
“There is nothing more rewarding than sharing your own story and being told it helped empower someone else to achieve his or her goals”
She has over 4 million followers on her Instagram account.
Personal Life
She was previously in a relationship with former Bachelorette star, Chase McNary, this was revealed by Chase in March 2017.[10]
She is presently engaged to a man named Jason Moritz Sebestian, they began dating in 2018, he proposed to her in July 2019.
They have a child together, a daughter named Presley Sebestian, she was born on September 13, 2019.
Paige is a big advocate of plyometrics whenever she is at home.
However, she also goes to the gym whenever she can, where she usually trains multiple muscle groups per session.
She is also a fan of high reps – she usually sticks to 10-25 reps per set, unless she is training legs where she goes up to 50 reps.
Her favorite exercises revolve around her legs and bottom, which she trains the most.
As well as her workout plans, she fits in abs three times a week, on whichever days she feels best.
Paige always ends her workouts 15-35 minutes of steady-state cardio, making sure to burn off some extra-unwanted calories and keep fit.
She ends her week with a rest day, to make sure she doesn’t overwork her body and allow it to recover.
She usually keeps herself on a strict diet to keep her shape all-year-round.
Her favorite healthy food is red bell peppers.
However, she does let herself have a cheat day, once a week she enjoys eating a cheese pizza, chocolate, and froyo.[10]
“I need a cheat day so I work that much harder when I am on.
My go-to is definitely pizza, you name the toppings”