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bodybuilder; competition judge; photographer; wrote Forever Fit and Inside Weight Training for Women; spoke out against steroids and other drugs in bodybuilding; appeared on covers of MuscleMag International, Strength & Health, Muscular Development, Playgirl, Pleine Forme; published magazine Body Talk; appeared on Real People and 20/20; born in 1931, raised in Houston, married at 16; both father and husband worked for American Can Company; five children; took up weight training after 4th child; moved to New Orleans and worked as Sky Adventures stewardess; moved to Florida and began bodybuilding; divorced in 1987{{Cite web| last = Becnel| first = Thomas| title = Great-grandma was the first lady of bodybuilding| work = Sarasota Herald-Tribune| access-date = 2025-05-02| url = https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2007/09/15/great-grandma-was-the-first-lady-of-bodybuilding/28610677007/}}
one son died in motorcycle accident, one son died of AIDS; first photo submission of herself to Strength & Health was rejected for appearing "too masculine, second was published in 1963; took photos at bodybuilding competitions and handed out trophies; entered the First National Physique Championship in June, 1978, Canton, Ohio, at age 46; after, performed guest poses in July, 1978, at Mr. Southeastern and Mr. Tampa competitions; in October, 1978, Barrilleaux and fellow bodybuilders Suzanne Kosak and Linda Gleason established the Superior Physique Association (SPA), Barrilleaux was founding president; SPA held a women's bodybuilding competition in April, 1979; preferred term "physique" to distinguish between bodybuilding ideals for men and women; worked with Ben Weider to form the American Federation of Women Bodybuilders to support amateur women's competitions, but it was absorbed by the National Physique Committee for legal reasons; 2011, National Fitness Hall of Fame; co-authored Inside Weight Training for Women (1978); wrote Forever Fit (1983); 2004 received Vic Boff Award from Association of Oldetime Barbell & Strongmen{{Cite web| last = Solomon| first = Valerie| title = Doris Barrilleaux: Visionary. Trailblazer. Pumping Iron Since 1956| work = GORGO| access-date = 2025-05-02| date = 2018-05-13| url = https://www.gorgomag.com/freearticles/2015/8/27/doris-barrilleaux-visionary-trailblazer-pumping-iron-since-1956}}
first child when 22; 1977 came in 2nd to 17-year-old in national contest; won Miss Gold Coast (over 35 category); To Tell the Truth appearance; SPA groups were established in Hawaii, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Wichita, Norfolk, Houma (LA), Key West, Boca Raton, Tampa; chief stewardess for regional Red Carpet Airlines (Tampa){{cite news | newspaper=The Orlando Sentinel | date=November 9, 1980 | page=15 | last=Burdette | first=Dick | title=Pumping iron pays off for grandmother | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-doris1980/171538682/}}
chairwoman of International Federation of Body Builders Women's Committee, president American Federation of Women Bodybuilders; opposed women working toward excessive muscle bulk and worried that those women who did scare women away from the sport ("most women are scared to death they'll wind up looking like a guy if they work with weights"){{cite news | newspaper=Florida Today | location=Cocoa, Florida | date=April 1, 1981 | pages=1D, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/florida-today-doris4d/171539088/ 4D] | last=Cox | first=Billy | title=Body building battle shapes up | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/florida-today-dorisp35/171539036/}}
April 1979, organized, hosted Miss Brandon Physique, first women's bodybuilding competition, which was sponsored by SPA and had 13 contestants; SPA also sponsored Ms. Florida Physique; moved to Brandon in 1959, Louisiana in 1963, back to Brandon, then Riverview, Florida; husband Sterling; 1981 tv pilot Body Sculpture by Doris never aired; retired from competition in 1986; disagreed with path the sport was taking toward more muscles and bulk; 2007 filmed for Canadian documentary about senior bodybuilders; appeared on Real People, To Tell the Truth, What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret, SportsWorld{{cite news | newspaper=The Tampa Tribune | date=July 21, 2007 | pages=8, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-doris12/171539386/ 12] | last=Rupp | first=Scott E. | title=She Pulled Her Weight | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-doris26/171539337/}}
born Houston, 1931, Doris Biering; four children by age 25; couldn't hang from jungle gym bars so started weight training at local gym in a segregated "women's area"; (first women's bobybuilding contest was June 1978 Canton OH by Henry McGhee; SPA's was first by women for women); wrote column "Curves and Peaks" in Muscle Training Illustrated magazine; Terry Todd called her "the First Lady of Bodybuilding"{{Cite book| publisher = University of Nebraska Press| isbn = 978-1-4962-0950-4| last = Black| first = Jonathan| title = Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History| date = 2020-04-01|pages=118-119}}
"First Lady of Bodybuilding"{{Cite book| publisher = arsenal pulp press| isbn = 978-1-55152-385-9| last = Chapman| first = David| title = Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women| date = 2010-12-01| page=341}}
SPA only lasted till 1980{{Cite book| publisher = Routledge| isbn = 978-1-136-25085-9| last = Bunsell| first = Tanya| title = Strong and Hard Women: An ethnography of female bodybuilding| date = 2013-04-12|page=1977}}
Body Talk with Dan Lurie only one issue printed, lack of demand{{Cite book| publisher = AuthorHouse| isbn = 978-1-4343-8546-8| last1 = Lurie| first1 = Dan| last2 = Robson| first2 = David| title = Heart of Steel: The Dan Lurie Story| date = 2009| page=138}}
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{{Cite book| publisher = Tampa Bay Publications, Inc.| title = Tampa Bay Magazine| date = 1988}}
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