Kristy Hawkins was born and raised in Longview, Texas, in 1980.
14 Facts About Kristy Hawkins
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Kristy Hawkins earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 2005.
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Kristy Hawkins graduated from Caltech in 2008 with a Ph.
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In 1999, Hawkins worked as an intern for the Eastman Chemical Company and from 2000 to 2002 she worked again as an intern for the Solutia Inc From November 2008 to August 8,2013, she moved to Emeryville, California, where she got a job as scientist for metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at Amyris Inc Starting August 19,2013, she worked as director of yeast engineering for the company Lygos.
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Kristy Hawkins has since left Lygos and co-founded a chemical engineering company called Antheia.
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Kristy Hawkins has described herself as having been very heavy in elementary school.
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Kristy Hawkins took dance lessons and became a twirler, but says that she wasn't active enough and didn't have proper eating habits.
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Kristy Hawkins suffered from anorexia nervosa, which led her to starve herself.
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Kristy Hawkins eventually got into the gym to burn calories.
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Kristy Hawkins twice placed in the top four at the NPC Nationals.
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Kristy Hawkins says that she didn't really track her body-fat numbers, but mostly just went by how she looked.
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In 2011, Kristy Hawkins stepped away from professional bodybuilding and has successfully stepped into the realm of powerlifting, while maintaining a "bodybuilder" type look to her physique.
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Kristy Hawkins has stated that when she was just starting this sport she managed to squat 400 pounds.
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Kristy Hawkins was for a time in a serious relationship with bodybuilder Branden Ray, but is single.