Incredible tricks of the young strongwoman April (12 photos + 1 video)

Young girls are about dreams, fantasies, candy and maybe romance. Or playing with dolls. But such things were clearly alien to this teenage girl. Because she easily juggled with grown men. What kind of dolls are there?





There is disappointingly little information on the Internet about the miracle child, who demonstrated incredible miracles of strength while studying in the seventh grade. Because April Atkins clearly deserves a more detailed story if her personality is compared to some singers of the same day.

But the available information was preserved only thanks to LIFE photographer Loomis Dean, who captured an ordinary sunny day in 1954 with an unusual participant in the Muscle Beach performances in Los Angeles.



It is known that the young athlete from Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles area) was 12 years old at the time of filming. And weighing less than 36 kilograms, she performed amazing tricks - easily lifting and holding on her shoulders adult athletic guys who weighed two or more times her weight. The maximum weight recorded at the show exceeded 300 kilograms.





The little strongwoman was trained by Barney Fry. In the mid-50s, for some time she delighted spectators of her performances, who watched with delight the talents of the unusual seventh-grader. And then the girl disappeared from the radar.

Representatives of the publication itself, as well as readers, are very interested in the fate of the young talent. But the question of how April even managed to perform such stunts remained open.



















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