About Heidi Somers
Heidi Somers (AKA) ‘Buff Bunny‘ is a fitness competitor, and world-renowned model from Alaska. However, she later decide to move to Texas for personal reasons.
Heidi’s been through some difficult moments in life when she lived in Alaska. She had problems with relationships, lost her job, and crashed her car all in the same month. Not only that, Heidi created some unhealthy eating habits in the process and gained weight.
Deciding to move to Texas to start fresh, and create a new life for herself, Heidi found CrossFit. She used this new activity as a way to get moving, and meet new people.
Heidi enjoyed every moment of CrossFit, but she always had the feeling she could do more. From that point, Heidi went on to compete in the NCP and has since become a world-class athlete and household name.
Heidi Somers was born and raised in a small town in the North Pole, Alaska. When she was 20 years old, she managed to juggle four jobs to save up enough money to move to a new city. She left behind her friends and family and moved to San Antonio, Texas. For the first time in her life, she was completely alone.
Heidi admits she did this for both adventure and better opportunities. Since moving to Texas, Heidi has become a leading female athlete in the fitness industry, however, Heidi’s life wasn’t always active and sociable.
Heidi said it wasn’t only adventure and travel that motivated her to move to Texas. She went through a difficult break-up, crashed her car, and lost her job all in the same month.
On top of that, she had a stalker who would show up where she worked – he’d also bang on her front door. This is when Heidi took the leap of faith and moved to Texas.
However, Heidi hasn’t always been the model of health she’s known as today, she never played sports as a child, and hardly went out during her years of home-schooling.
She once got to a point when she was dangerously skinny, and visa versa, overweight in her teenage years – Heidi lived an unbalanced life in her early years.
One day, this realization of living an unhealthy lifestyle caught up with Heidi.
After visiting a fitting room to try on normal sized clothes – they wouldn’t fit. She looked in the mirror and saw the excess weight she’d gained. It wasn’t only the weight that she saw in the mirror – it was also the realization of the unhealthy habits she’d created.
“It was at this point that I re-evaluated my life and realized I didn’t like the direction I was going with my body. I told my friends I wanted to lose the weight I had gained. They told me it was too late, and that I would never go back to the skinny body I once had.”
After she received this shock to the system, form both herself, and her friends, she became intensely motivated to get fit once and for all.
Needless to say, Heidi went on to become a strong athlete – but it took years of hard work, and a lot of trial and error. “I never went back to being skinny. I became athletic and strong instead,“ said Heidi
As of January 2024, she has amassed 1.6 million followers on Instagram and 775,000 subscribers on her YouTube platform.
