{"id":523,"date":"2003-11-23T04:08:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2003\/11\/23\/life-by-delmonteque\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:16:39","slug":"life-by-delmonteque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2003\/11\/23\/life-by-delmonteque\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, by Delmonteque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a315\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some stories are too good to be true.\u00a0 Such is the story of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob%20Delmonteque\">Bob Delmonteque<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was a popular beefcake model in his youth.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigkugels.com\/content\/DelMonteque.html\">Pictures from his youth<\/a> are now worth a tidy bundle.\u00a0 He himself was known in those days as a photographer of male nudes.\u00a0\u00a0He went on to become a major national exercise trainer, and was one of the trainers for the original Apollo astronauts&#8230; Somewhere in there, he got a degree in (sports) psychology.\u00a0 Some recent pictures:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAwesome studio photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaloflongevity.com\/JOLWeb\/Archives\/86\/prostate.html\">published in &#8217;99<\/a> (taken when he was in\u00a0his 70s?).<br \/>\nOne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictactivewear.com\/images\/Mvc_008s.jpg\">Taken in 2000<\/a> (<strong>age 81+<\/strong>) at a modeling shoot.<br \/>\nHeadshot from a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictactivewear.com\/images\/Mvc_008s.jpg\">ISSA profile<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.57.104\/search?q=cache:eWwm3Edv2-kJ:www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-arnold29sep29000201,1,4298785.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-headlines-business-manual+delmonteque+photo&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8\">Delmonteque is <strong>84<\/strong><\/a>, has a build most 20-year olds would kill for, and spends his time promoting his line of age-defying products and still modeling his physique for weight gyms in California.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocratesinst.com\/108.htm\">charming article<\/a> he published recently, in which he coyly refers to himself in the third person&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I find a good reference to one of his photo exhibits (photos by him, not of him), I&#8217;ll post it here.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll even find a woman with a similar story!\u00a0 [the woman who helps him market his youth potions doesn&#8217;t quite fit the bill.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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