Long before we ogled pictures of Ryan Gosling with his shirt off, women were swooning over a different type of man. Meet Eugen Sandow, the world's first hunk. Image Source: Getty Sandow, whose first name is sometimes spelled "Eugene," rose to fame in the late 1890s as a weightlifter and bodybuilder. According to Hunter Oatman-Stanford at Collector's Weekly, German-born Sandow toured the U.S. wrestling with tigers, lifting weights and posing as a marble statue while covered in white powder. "He w...
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The Huffington Post - 16 Oct 2013 21:41
Long before we ogled pictures of Ryan Gosling with his shirt off, women were swooning over a different type of man. Meet Eugen Sandow, the world's first hunk. Image Source: Getty Sandow, whose first name is sometimes spelled "Eugene," rose to fame in the late 1890s as a weightlifter and bodybuilder. According to Hunter Oatman-Stanford at Collector's Weekly, German-born Sandow toured the U.S. wrestling with tigers, lifting weights and posing as a marble statue while covered in white powder. "He w...
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