[2] She played volleyball and softball in school and got into bodybuilding as a teenager after seeing Rachel McLish on a magazine cover.
She did her first bodybuilding show when a senior in high school and earned the right to turned pro at only 19 after winning an amateur contest in Japan.
[3] Knight finished fourth in the 1988 Ms. Olympia, but she later admitted sending a surrogate to take a mandatory drug test administered before the event after IFBB officials presented strong evidence.
After the scandal, she returned to the stage in 1991, winning the Ms. International title, this time without incident.
She had three brothers Timothy, Todd, and Travis, and several step- and in-law siblings, as well as a son named Malachi.