ARNIE! He’s one of greatest bodybuilders of all time! But his interest in the homoerotic sport started when he laid first saw English bodybuilder Reg Park.Park starred as the god Hercules in five Hollywood films and accumulated a large international fanbase, including a young Schwarzenegger in Austria.In his new Netflix documentary Arnold, Schwarzenegger reflected on his teen obsession with Park’s male form and how it caused his parents to question his sexuality.
“I was so amazed by this body, I just could not get it out of my mind,” the 75-year-old reveals. “The testosterone was kicking in, getting interested in girls was kicking in, everything started happening.”
Hoping to emulate Park’s jacked physique, Schwarzenegger began hitting the gym and pumping up his muscles.
“This guy is my idol,” he says in the doc. “He was my blueprint in where I wanted to go in life.”
But he didn’t stop there. For added motivation, Schwarzenegger took to hanging up posters of Park and other scantily clad musclemen in his room and that didn’t sit well with his parents.
“My mother got freaked out,” Schwarzenegger recalls. “She said, ‘All his friends have girls above their bed. My son doesn’t have one girl up here. Look at that. It’s only naked men, oiled-up. Where did we go wrong?’”
We’ve all been there Arnold! At least he didn’t put up posters of Sarah Michelle Gellar and pretend he wanted to be her boyfriend! Not saying we did that but…
We can see why Arnie was obsessed with Reg Park too!:
Who did you have posters of hanging on your wall as a teen bodybuilder, OMG!?
[via queerty]
Awww! He’s just like us! Except for the whole vetoing gay marriage in 2005 and 2007.