Janet Layug

About Janet Layug

In 2014, Janet was crowned Miss Hooters International.

Janet Layug was born in Florida USA, on 29 December 1988, so under the zodiac sign of Capricorn and holding American nationality – she is popular for being a fitness model, as well as for her Instagram account. As of May 2024, she has amassed 575,000 followers on her Instagram platform.

Janet spent her entire childhood in Florida with her father and mother, but she doesn’t usually talk about them as she respects their privacy as much as she respects her own – she hasn’t mentioned having any siblings, which is why she is considered to be an only child.

Janet grew up wanting to become a model, but wasn’t imagining that she was going to become a fitness model one day.

She was very active during her high school years as she was part of her high school’s soccer team – she wasn’t really in love with soccer, but rather thought that it would help her shape her figure. She was somewhat popular in high school due to her attractive looks, but it is not known if she had dated anyone during that period of her life.

After she matriculated from high school, Janet enrolled at the University of Florida, and became a registered nurse – around the same time when she started attending University, she began going to the gym.

Janet was working at a few restaurants for years before she was finally ready to make fitness and modelling her full-time job, as she only worked other jobs to be able to financially support herself and to pay for her gym. The most famous restaurant that she worked at was Hooters as a Hooters Girl. Janet is among the most famous former Hooters Girls, others being Lynn Austin and Playboy Playmate Tiffany Taylor, Hugh Hefner's girlfriend Holly Madison, actress Amy Adams, sports commentator Leannn Tweeden and Playboy Playmate Terri Harrison

Her career of a fitness model was officially launched once she entered her first fitness competition in 2013, and quit all other jobs she had. She went home as a winner from the 2013 NPC National Championship, and she alone was surprised, as it was her first competition. She received her Pro Card, which made it possible for her to go and compete as a professional.

After her first competition, Janet went on to compete in numerous others, such as the aforementioned Hooters International Bikini Contest, which she won in 2014. In addition, she won four IFBB Pro Bikini competitions in two years – she also finished second in the 2014 and 2015 Bikini Olympia competitions.

When it comes to her modelling career, Janet is a sought-after model, who has appeared in numerous calendars and magazines, while she has posed for some of the most popular brands and companies from around the world.

Janet’s favorites are glute exercises, including lunges, leg presses, and squats which is her all-time favorite.

She also does cable kick-backs and barbell hip-thrusts, but very little weight lifting as she thinks it might affect her figure negatively.

She does cardio exercises quite often, while her favorite is High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) – she sometimes replaces her cardio with hiking and tennis. She is also likes running, and does it several times a week, but doesn’t run more than 10 kilometers.

When it comes to her diet, Janet eats five to six times per day, and is very precise when it comes to the number of calories and proteins she eats every day.

Janet hasn’t talked about her love life on the internet and therefore very little about it is known. One thing that is known for sure is that Janet has a daughter called Briley Sage, who was born back in 2008. Janet hasn’t spoken about the father of the girl and therefore her fans started guessing what was going on with her love life – there are rumors circulating the internet that the popular fitness model is currently married to the man who is the father of her daughter, but she decided to simply keep him away completely from the social media’s attention.

Other rumors say that the two split years ago, and that Janet is raising her daughter all by herself, however, Janet hasn’t commented on any of these rumors, and therefore nothing about her love life can be said with certainty.

Judging by her social media accounts and her secrecy, Janet currently appears to be single, hasn’t married, and has a daughter named Briley Sage.

Janet spends most of her free time at the gym exercising – she began doing it just to shape her figure, but has since fallen in love with it. Even though gym takes most of her time, Janet still finds a bit of time for her other interests.

She loves travelling and has been to numerous attractive destinations around the US – the most important part of travelling for her is that the hotel in which she is staying has a gym she can use. She enjoys being at the beach, and could spend an entire day under the sun with a cocktail in her hand – she doesn’t usually drink alcohol, but would make an exception for chilling at the beach. She admitted to be addicted to the attention she gets on the internet, which is one of the things she doesn’t like about herself, and would prefer to change.

Janet is also an animal person as she grew up with a dog, and also has a dog for her daughter to grow up with.

Janet is quite active on several popular social media platforms, as this is very important for her career of a fitness model. She launched her Twitter account in June 2009, but has so far only gathered around 1,600 followers, and tweeted nearly 70 times. She is a lot more popular on her Instagram account, which counts nearly 400,000 followers while she’s uploaded over 1,300 pictures onto it – she is running a Facebook page as well. which counts almost 60,000 fans.