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Curves International, also known as Curves for Women, Curves Fitness, or just Curves, is an international fitness franchise co-founded by Gary and Diane Heavin in 1992. As of May 31, 2019, Curves lists 367 franchise locations open in the United States on their Facebook page.
During their most recent visit to Australia, the founders of Curves, Gary and Diane Heavin spoke to Australian Women Online about the history of Curves and the couple’s passion for helping women to achieve optimal health and well being.
- Deborah Robinson
The Story of Curves. When Gary and Diane Heavin established a little club in the south Texas town of Harlingen in 1992, that was the beginning of Curves. Gary Heavin had lost his mother when he was just 13 years old.
Gary and Diane were given a car to drive--which they described as a “true clunker” and a cover story which cast them as participants in the filming of a documentary on philanthropy. This helped explain the producers and camera crew that followed them everywhere.
In the early 1990s Heavin and his wife, cofounder Diane Heavin, conceived Curves for Women with the idea that there were a few basic barriers, both real and psychological, preventing a whole sector of women from maintaining basic fitness: working out takes too much time; gym memberships cost too much money; and gym environments are often ...
Jul 6, 2008 · Complete episodes of some of the 15 'Conversations with Robyn' episodes filmed on the walk, including this one with Diane Heavin, Curves founder, now on Yout...
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Diane and Gary Heavin are the founders of the internationally successful Curves fitness center for women. Recently the participated in ABC's 'Secret Millionaire' program where they went undercover to live in a poverty-stricken Houston neighborhood.
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