Milan Here I Come!

EVH magazine, an Italian fashion mag, is coming out to do coverage of me while I'm in town to compete. Gotta get my head together to line up shoots Monday/Tues following the competition.

Tomorrow my themewear maker is coming to Brussels from London to hand deliver my costume and polish up my routine. I can't wait to show off my costume on stage, it's a jaw dropper...!

Also I'm going to do another shoot of Maurizzio while in Milan.  A beautiful half Belgian/Italian and bright as well.... very special person.  I'm hoping to get a real soulful shoot with him; it's amazing what a photographer will capture when they have personal connections to their subjects. 

My schedule until December is intimidating... going to be working in Germany, Paris, Brussels, and travel 2x to the States for a repatriation look-see, visit my folks in FL, and compete in the World Championships before hauling all of my belongings to LA for good in December.  Getting about 3-4 hours of sleep of night from the stress.  GO GO GO GO

SMD: 3 Days from the MuscleMania European Championships

MuscleMania European Championships in Milan, ITALY Oct 3-4

Been following the Scarsdale Medical diet, coupled with my fitness regime, with insane results.

Sept 7: 132 lbs
Today Sept 30: 122.8lbs

Holy Crap. My eyes bugged out when I saw that this morning, feeling like Rocky!! HA!

3 days more to go and I'm keeping up the pace til Friday as best as I can. After the Euros, I have 6 weeks for the Worlds (Fitness America Pageant) in Las Vegas where I'm going to need to come in even leaner and more muscle if possible. The girls are super competitive at this show, I'd count my blessings if I could crack top 10 there. But it will be an awesome networking opportunity prior to relocating to LA in December (about 90% certain at this point). It's my dream to go all-in with my fitness/photography/modeling - I believe in myself and I'm honestly going to give this every effort inside me to make my dreams a sustainable reality.

Song du Jour - Beyonce Sweet Dreams

Shooting today with OnGoEnergy.com

Whew! Super nice time with Sven Smits and Tim Keweritsch shooting the OnGo Energy Drink campaign.  Tim's working on the main pics while in the meantime I was lucky to get a copy of the RAWs so that I can pick out the fun side shots we made.  Love shooting with these guys.

Part 1 of 2 TV Segment: "Natalie Minh: Life through the Lens"

Check out my part 1 of 2 TV segment on LA Muscle TV channel 281, broadcasted on Sky TV across Europe.  You can also find it on LA Muscle TV's website too.

Thank you to Rob Riches, 2009 WBFF Pro Male Model World Champion, for making this happen.  You are on top of your game, so proud of you, and looking forward to seeing you once I get out to La la Land!!

Songs du Jour - Noxx Memories

My favorite place in this country to spend time with friends.... NOXX. You'll often find me driving up to Antwerp to dance my butt off to the hottest touring artists coming to Belgium.

Shoutouts to Telihana, Sven Smits, Lars "No" Smits, Tom Swerts for always giving us an amazing time here, and my lovely male models Filip Hebbrecht the VIP Host of the year, and Christophe Dethy!! This place is just crawling with hot eye candy - a photographer's dream.

Oh how we love this place....

Songs du Jour - European Party Summer

This summer was absolutely amazing: went to Barcelona, Istanbul, Vegas, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, NYC, London, Paris, Reims, Monte Carlo, Antwerp, Liege, Sardinia.  NON STOP Adventures!!!!!

These were definitely the party anthems from this summer, enjoy!