After all, she spent her childhood telling her dad, Jean-Claude Van Damme, a k a “the Muscles from Brussels,” and mom, bodybuilding champion Gladys Portugues, that she “hated” martial arts.

A FORMER bodybuilder who twice made the top 10 at Ms. Olympia competitions shared the secret to her muscular build. Ex-powerlifting star Gladys Portugues competed during the 1980s and is the wife o… ...

The New York-based actress and film producer, whose mother is bodybuilding champion Gladys Portugues, didn’t start doing martial arts until 2008, when she was cast alongside her dad in “The ...

A FORMER bodybuilder who twice made the top 10 at Ms. Olympia competitions shared the secret to her muscular build. Ex-powerlifting star Gladys Portugues competed during the 1980s and is the wife o… ...

Bodybuilding followed because I loved pumping iron. Gladys Portugues was my inspiration. I just got carried away after the birth of my second child and then, as I built up the muscles, ...