Crystal is the youngest of her family and did not have the easiest childhood. “Mother was shot and killed by her husband and I was forced to bounce around from family member to family member. Never had too much of a rooted foundation. I was kicked out at 17 because I was rebellious in my later years of high school and have been on my own ever since. I’ve always worked and provided for myself, I married at 20 and divorced at 24, where I then moved to Orange County, California to start a new life. I began to work In the nightclub scene as a gogo dancer, then promoting in LA and Vegas and then getting into bartending“, says @summahhaze.

After a few years in the party scene, Crystal hit a rock bottom feeling completely lost and wanting something better for herself. “I started going to the Gym with my cousin were I began to see the results of my work and started to love the gym life. I later discovered the wellness division and decided I wanted to compete in that division but the only place I knew that held the competitions was in Brazil. I found a coach online and I trained online and competed in Brazil in July 2016 where I took second and third place as the first and only American to compete in the wellness division. Ever since I won I made it my goal to become a pro in the meantime I started personal training clients and eventually worked as a fitness model”.

Crystal became a sponsored athlete for Dragon Pharma and competed in the first NPC wellness division competition in the United States in January where she took first place in her category. “My goal is still to get my pro card and right now I am wanting to start my YouTube channel where people can follow my routine my story and hopefully I can branch out with more opportunities that way. I want to make my grandmother and mother proud and be able to take care of my sisters if I need to”.

“I’m very proud to have the title as the first American wellness competitor and on top of that being the first American wellness competitor champ in my category.  My story is not very common I don’t come from a sports background I didn’t have a healthy family upbringing I come from a broken family domestic violence but I’m doing better than most and that makes me proud and I would like to use my platform to help other people get to where they want to go coming from similar backgrounds”.