Chantel Nienaber
Chantel is a personal trainer and a semi pro athlete. She also does fitness modelling. She studied fine arts, and didn’t come from an athletic heritage at all. Born in Pretoria 1973, and attended St Paulus Convent during her primary school years, relocating to Johannesburg for high school. There she attended the Art, Ballet, Music and Drama School. Chantel continued with her love for art at Wits Technikon, majoring in print making and sculpture. Married at 21. She was happy doing her art and never saw herself as an athlete or someone doing modelling or being involved with fitness. She was and is still more a tree hugging, joint smoking hippie that would rather be chilling out than be running around racing, but somehow life threw her some curve balls and by the time her son was born she started a career in fitness.
