Who is Vivi Winkler? Wiki Bio

Viviane Winkler Lourenco was born in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on 2 May 1991, so her zodiac sign is Taurus and she holds Brazilian nationality. She is a model and a bodybuilder, who gained recognition after she competed in the bodybuilding Liga Carioca Championship, finishing as the runner-up.

Early life and education

Vivi was raised in Rio De Janeiro by her father who is working at a local factory, and her mother who is teaching at a local high school – it appears that Vivi has no siblings.

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She became interested in acting at a very early age, as she spent a lot of her free time watching movies and TV series, but it all changed after she started modelling when she was 21 years old. Vivi had problems at high school as she was overweight, and some of her peers bullied her and laughed at her dream of becoming an actress, all of which eventually led to Vivi starting to go the gym. Upon matriculation, she didn’t enroll at college, but rather decided to focus on losing weight and later on her modelling and bodybuilding career.

Career as a model and bodybuilder

Vivi became focused on becoming the best Brazilian bodybuilder sometime in 2006, when she hired a professional trainer and began going to the gym six to seven times each week. She only gained recognition after she competed in the World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (WBPF) Rio de Janeiro Liga Carioca Championship in 2016 when she won second place and was then invited by numerous magazines to appear on their cover pages. Her newfound fame also helped her become an Instagram star, and her account is currently followed by over 2.2 million people.

Vivi Winkler

Vivi has been working as a model since 2012, and she has since served as the Fitness Ambassador of the clothing brand Maria Gueixa as well as for the pharmaceutical company Farma Forma. Her role model is Rizian Carla, a Brazilian bodybuilder who has won numerous titles and championships such as the NABBA Rio in 2015 and Angel BFS in 2016.

Workout routine and dieting plan

Vivi’s favorite day is when she gets to work on her quadriceps, her favorite muscle group, and she often films herself while exercising to later upload these videos onto her social media accounts, so helping those who are willing to exercise, and are looking for advice and tips (as well as motivation).

She likes to use dumbbells, while she also enjoys using an extensor chair when she is working on her lower body.

Vivi likes to be in nature, which is why she mostly exercises outdoors unless it’s a rainy day, and she is keen on running around Rio De Janeiro, which often serves as her cardio.

She is taking extra care regarding what she eats, as a proper diet plan is more important than exercising at the gym. Vivi doesn’t eat fast food nor sweets (low to no intake of sugar) and she prefers to eat Brazilian food which is rich in carbs, fats and protein.

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She eats six to seven times a day – her favorite meal is made up of 150g of rice and 200g of chicken meat, as well as a salad. Vivi also likes to eat a Mexican dish called Ovos Mexidos, which is made up of scrambled eggs, tomato sauce and onions.

Vivi has been criticized for her use of supplements, but she believes these are important for her bodybuilding career, and that they don’t harm her health; these include Whey Protein, Vitamins D and A, and pre- and post-workout Vitamin C. Vivi is also using Goji Berry extract.

Love life and relationships

There is only a single Vivi relationship that the public knows about – in 2015 she met Igor Cariz, a man who worked out at the same gym as she did, when the two started going out together, and were in a relationship for nearly a year before going their separate ways for unknown reasons. It appears that Vivi has been single since their break-up.

There are rumors circulating the internet that Vivi might be a lesbian, as she doesn’t talk about any other men she might have dated, while some of her fans have also stated to have seen her with several mysterious women.

Vivi has also uploaded pictures of herself with a mysterious woman onto her Instagram account, and some of her fans believe that the two might be in a romantic relationship.

Hobbies and other interests

Vivi likes to travel and has been to several US states such as New York, Arizona and California, while she has also been to several European countries such as France, Germany and Russia, for both bodybuilding competitions and for holidays. She likes to watch movies in her spare time, with some of her favorite actors and actresses being Bruce Lee, Stephen Quadros and Kate Beckinsale, while her favorite movies include “Enter the Dragon”, “Never Back Down”, and “Strategic Command”.

She only likes to watch TV comedy series, with two of her favorites being “Family Guy” and “South Park”.

Vivi is a lover of animals and she has a pet dog, while she’s volunteered with a local animal shelter several times, the first time being when she was 15 years old. She has helped raise money for the shelter, and is encouraging people to adopt dogs rather than to buy them.

Appearance and net worth

Vivi is 28 years old. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes, is 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, and weighs around 120lbs (55kgs). As of April 2020, her net worth is estimated at around $500,000.

Leonard Francois is the father of Naomi Osaka, the professional tennis player, who best Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open Final. He’s dedicated many years of his life working as a tennis coach for his daughters, Mari and Naomi.

Early life and family

Leonard Max Francois was born in the US, though he is of Haitian descent. His parents spoke only Creole, as they didn’t even know English. Leonard spent his youth in New York, eventually as a student of New York University. It was then when he met the love of his life and the future mother of his daughters, Tamaki Osaka. During one of his vacations from his studying, Leonard went to one of the Japanese islands, among them Hokkaido, where he met Tamaki, and soon understood that he wanted to proceed with a relationship with her.

Tamaki’s Japanese family accused her of dating a black man and bringing disgrace to the whole family, however, Leonard was not afraid of proving he was a good match for his Japanese girlfriend, so after graduating from University, he moved to Osaka, Japan, to live there with Tamaki and to be near her family to show them he was good enough.

Career

Leonard decided to go in for tennis coaching in 1999, when he saw the Williams sisters performing at the French Open tournament. Both his daughters were toddlers those days, but Leonard’s decision was made. He was amazed by their victory in the doubles, and swore to do everything he could to make his daughters the team of the Williams’ kind. Leonard was also encouraged by the fact that the coach of the Williams’ sisters, their father Richard Williams, played no tennis at all in his entire life, although Leonard played tennis quite a lot.

Leonard’s younger daughter, Naomi Osaka, later admitted that the style of their upbringing at the courts was very similar to the one Serena and Venus Williams got from their father. Just as Serena once mentioned that nobody beaten her like Venus did, Naomi also shared that her older sister Mari was her toughest opponent. Leonard later found another coach for both of his daughters, for them to improve their playing level. Leonardo never forgot where he came from, so in 2000 he and his wife built an elementary school in Haiti, which Naomi later visited in 2019. He does a lot of charitable work, helping various funds to develop sports classes for children from low-income families.

Elder daughter, Mari Osaka

Leonard’s elder daughter, Mari Osaka, was born on 3 April 1996, in Osaka Japan. From an early age she was trained in tennis by her father.

She also likes drawing and often shares her pictures and sketches on her Instagram account. She also posts videos of her daily training routine, showing various interesting devices and gadgets which help her to practice and develop the speed, reaction and other skills important for a professional tennis player. Mari’s coach is now Maxime Kouyaté; he took her to the finals of The McLeod for Health Florence Open in 2018. Mari started participating in professional tennis tournaments in 2014, entering Bank of the West Classic, when she partnered Marina Shamayko in the doubles, however, they lost to Ajla Tomljanović and Varvara Lepchenko. Mari then could be seen participating at the 2019 Miami Open, when she played singles by receiving a wildcard into the main draw.

Mari likes travelling; her favorite destinations are Tokyo, Japan, and Paris, France. She likes dogs.

She suffers a lot from many people comparing her to her younger sister who is more successful than Mari; however, she learns how to deal with it, not being depressed and developing her own career and achievements.

Younger daughter, Naomi Osaka

Naomi Osaka was born on 16 October 1997, in Chūō-ku, Osaka Japan. The questions that she is more than tired of answering is ‘Why is her surname the same as the town she was born in?’: ‘We’re recycling a joke from 2014! Everyone who was born in Osaka, their last name is Osaka’, she joked in her interview to Washington Post in 2018. When Naomi was three years old, her family moved to Long Island, then to Florida, when she was around nine years old. Naomi started playing tennis along with her elder sister, Mari. She worked hard and dreamt of playing against the Williams sisters.

Naomi Osaka

At the age of 15 Naomi started working at the ISP Academy, being coached by Patrick Tauma, then in 2014 with the Harold Solomon Tennis Academy, and then moved to the ProWorld Tennis Academy, improving her skills and getting more opportunities to achieve success.

Naomi won her first WTA Tour match when she was only 16 years old, and became a sensation in the world of sports after beating Serena Williams at the US Open in 2018, while being ranked seventh in the world at that moment. The New Yorker called her ‘the next best player in the world’. In 2019 Naomi won the Australian Open, beating Petra Kvitová, the Czech professional tennis player, in three sets. The same tournament in 2020 was not as successful as Naomi expected it to be, as she lost to Coco Gauff, the American professional tennis player, in the third round.

Controversy around Naomi’s win at the US Open

‘We will never know whether young Osaka really won the 2018 US Open or had it handed to her by a man who was going to make Serena Williams feel his power’, wrote the columnist from the Washington Post, Sally Jenkins. Indeed, the situation which took place during the match between Naomi Osaka and her biggest idol and inspiration, Serena Williams, was outstanding. The Portuguese umpire Carlos Ramos, who served as the chair umpire at the match, gave Serena three code violations. She accused him of stealing the point from her, insisting she was not getting coaching during the match. She also accused him of sexism and racism, but in the end she had to pay the penalty fees for her violations.

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Naomi won the game, and the audience was arguing if it was her skill which helped her, or the situation about Serena, which made the latter lose both her temper and the game. At the end of the game Serena congratulated Naomi and looked friendly, smiling at Osaka. However, her true feeling about the game were in fact the opposite, yet not directed at Naomi.

Personal life, wife Tamaki Osaka

Leonard has never separated from his wife, Tamaki Osaka who is a school teacher, since the day they married in 1989. According to the laws of Japan, his daughters took their mother’s surname; the law is also known as Koseki, ie the Japanese Family Registration Law. It says the foreign spouse must join the koseki of his Japanese spouse, and all of their children are to be registered under the surname of the Japanese spouse.

Hobbies, favorite things and interesting facts

Leonard is an avid fan of many kinds of sports, so he spends a lot of time playing tennis and beach volleyball, swimming, etc. He also likes watching basketball matches. Leonard spends a lot of time with his parents, who still live in New York.

Appearance, clothing style

Leonard has black hair and dark brown eyes. His height, weight and vital statistics are not available at the moment, but judging by his photos with his daughter Naomi, who is 5ft 10ins (1.78m) tall, he is a bit shorter than her.

Net worth and salary

As of 2020, Leonard’s net worth is still not reported officially. However, his daughter Naomi Osaka has a net worth estimated at over $29 million.

Alex Honnold is a world famous rock climber, who has recently impressed everybody with his latest accomplishment – he performed a free solo climb of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan granite monolith, and proposed to his long-term girlfriend, Sanni McCandless. Alex’s fans could also see Sanni in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo”.

Early life and family

Cassandra “Sanni” McCandless was born on 30 June 1992, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA – she spent half of her childhood between her hometown and the city of Seattle, Washington. Her zodiac sign is Cancer, and she holds American nationality. Cassandra was born into a family with two kids, her sisters Helen and Laila.

Her mother, corporate communications specialist Lesley Marijke McCandless, and her father, an electromagnetic engineer, Jay McCandless, own a company based in California entitled “Suncastle Microwave LLC”. They spend a lot of time at work, but Cassandra remembers them always taking care of their children, even though they were very busy. Cassandra got her nickname “Sanni” from her childhood friend, who couldn’t say her name properly, so shortened it in her own way, and Cassandra liked it so much that she started to introduce herself to the others as Sanni. Since her early years Sanni has enjoyed active games, and also liked singing.

Educational background

Sanni matriculated from East Chapel Hill High School in 2010, enrolling at the University of North Carolina, located in Chapel Hill.

During her junior year she joined an “a capella” music group entitled “Cadence”, not as a singer but as their business manager and social chair, organizing their performances at various local events and festivals. In 2014 Sanni graduated from the UNC with a BA in psychology and a minor in Spanish. In 2017 Sanni became a certified personal life coach, completing her studies at iPEC.

Career

Marketing and event planning career

While studying at the university, Sanni started working as a waitress at a small cafe entitled “Carmine’s Ristorante and Pizzeria”. Developing her managing expertise, she benefited from her work with the music band “Cadence”, and signed up for an internship in the sphere of event planning at the “Back Country Land Trust”, an environmental conservation non-profit organization.

Sanni Mccandless

In 2013 Sanni joined the Durham Arts Council, one of the oldest American arts councils, and also completed an internship at her Alma Mater, completing the “UNC APPLES Program”, organizing several events there, including the CenterFest Arts Festival. During her senior college year, Sanni worked as a Spanish teacher, also being a nanny to the family of her parents’ friends.

In 2014 Sanni worked as a hospitality assistant in the WorkAway organization, living in Cordoba, Spain for a couple of months. After working shortly for Koru Careers, Sanni got the position of an events and marketing co-ordinator at Queensland Council of Social Service, working for its program Energy Savvy Families.

Shifting from a clerk to an adventurer

In 2015 Sanni quit QCOSS to join her elder sister in coaching outdoor adventure sports, including rock climbing. In a couple of years, Sanni became an entrepreneur, founding a life coaching center, steadily attracting more clients, and feeling stable in the new market. Later Sanni became a co-founder of OutWild, a community for people who want to live an outdoor lifestyle and do outdoor sports. Along with the other co-founders,  mountain athlete Jeremy Jensen, and career manager and podcast host Courtney Sanford, Sanni helps other people to change their lives and to be closer to nature and achieve freedom of self-expression. ‘Through her coaching, she helps people overcome the doubts and concerns that constantly get in the way of living fearlessly and feeling fulfilled.

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Her clients achieve lifelong goals and find agency in their own lives by learning to communicate more honestly’, says the information about Sanni on the official website of OutWild. During the hard times of global pandemic of 2020, Sanni holds free online workshops such as “Effective Communication”, “How to Have Hard Conversations”, and others.

Personal life, fiancé Alex Honnold

Sanni met her future fiancé, Alex Honnold, at a book-launch event Alex held for his book “Alone on the Wall” in 2015 – Sanni was brave enough to pass him a small piece of paper with her number on it when he signed her copy of the book. After a couple of weeks when Alex returned to Seattle, he called her and they started dating, and Sanni subsequently began accompanying him on his journeys.

At the beginning of their relationship Alex already had the idea of climbing El Capitan rock, even though he’d already had two accidents. Later, Sanni was featured in the documentary film “Free Solo”, directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, who also were producers of the movie. The film won the Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature in 2019, leaving behind such documentaries as “Minding the Gap”, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” and “RBG”. The movie also won multiple awards from 2018 to 2019, including Toronto International Film Festival Awards, British Academy Film Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards, winning all seven categories the film was nominated for.

Sanni is often asked by her followers if she is afraid of Alex dying, as he often puts himself in danger almost on a daily basis.

She once wrote that at first she was not even thinking of his death, but after her friend Ueli died in an accident while climbing Everest, and his wife Nicole became a widow, Sanni understood that people she loved were often living their lives on the edge. Yet even then she wrote: ‘I would never want my death to take the joy of living from someone else. It’s natural and healthy to grieve, but maybe it’s also ok when the time is up. Not because we won’t miss the s*** out of people we love, but because death is coming for us all’.

Who is Alex Honnold?

Alexander Honnold was born on 17 August 1985, in Sacramento, California USA. His mother, Dierdre Wolownich is also a climber – she climb El Capitan when she was 66, but not free solo, as her son later did.

Alex’s father, Charles Forrest Honnold, is a community college professor. Alex admits that he has never been the best climber, as he has seen a lot of kids who started climbing early and did it like they had a natural gift; Alex says he has never been like that, but has had a passion for it, so he has managed to achieve this much. Alex became popular in the world of climbing when he free soloed the Rostrum and the Astroman in Yosemite Valley in one day, and has accomplished  a lot of other significant climbs, including several free solos and speed solos.

Alex is a vegetarian, and doesn’t take any kinds of drugs or alcohol. His major interest after climbing is reading; he reads several books a week when he has spare time between his climbs.

I read a story for Disney! Something different… https://t.co/9kUUYh6Svq

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Among his favorite writers are Crey Rich, David A. Sinclair and Robin Diangelo. Alex calls himself ‘a militant atheist and a feminist’.

Hobbies, favorite things and interesting facts

Sanni likes winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding and mountain skiing. She also enjoys swimming, dancing and simply walking in the woods. Her favorite creature is a butterfly.

Is Sanni related to Chris McCandless?

Sanni is often asked if she is related to another outdoor enthusiast and hiker, Chris McCandless, who died of starvation in 1992, when he was only 24 years old during his travels around the North America, as he had minimal supplies.

Sanni knows his story, but they are not relatives.

Appearance, clothing style

Sanni has long light brown hair, is 5ft 6ins (1.7m) tall, weighs around 123lbs (56kgs), and her vital statistics are 34-24-35. Sanni enjoys wearing straw hats. She doesn’t have any tattoos.

Net worth and salary

As of 2020, Sanni’s net worth is reported to be around $1 million, while her fiancé, Alex has a reputed net worth of over $1.5 million, which significantly grew after the success of the documentary film on his free soloing El Capitan.