The Truth About Denise Austin Today – Her Age, Net Worth and Other Facts

Denise Austin is a fitness star who rose to great fame in the 90s thanks to her famous workout videos, as she was known for her activities at the beach, wearing a leotard or a bikini.

In her later years, the former college gymnast became an author and columnist, as well as a member of the President’s Council on Fitness and Sport. She is also an activist who has worked hard to raise awareness for women’s heart disease, which earned her the 2008 Red Dress Award from Woman’s Day magazine.

Biography (Age)

Denise Austin was born Denise Katnich, one of four children of Rita Austin and Joe Katnich, on February 13, 1957, in San Pedro, a community located in Los Angeles, California. From an early age, Austin was heavily involved in sports, following in the footsteps of her father, who was a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Browns.

After competing and achieving great success in high school gymnastics, Austin earned a gymnastics scholarship to attend the University of Arizona, where she achieved NCAA rank nine on balance beam. After a few years there, she transferred to California State University, Long Beach, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a minor in exercise physiology.

During her college days, Austin began producing fitness tapes and attending fitness classes where she and other attendees did yoga, pilates, cross-training, and aerobics. She took it a step further after graduation by writing exercise books and columns and staying in shape while making videos and taking classes. Austin encouraged maintaining her natural form through a balanced exercise program and proper diet. She was known for consulting nutrition experts as she also conducted extensive research to create workable weight control and fitness solutions. Among his early training tape releases,Non-aerobic training (1988) and Step Workout with the Reebok Step (1991).

In the 90s, Denise Austin was able to have a time on ESPN2, her exercise program, “Getting in Shape with Denise Austin,” was televised for a number of years as she continued to step out of other well-selling workout tapes from the “Hit the Spot” series. They include; Hit the Spot: Abs (1995), Hit the Spot: Thighs (1995), Hit the Spot : Buns (1995), Hit the Spot: Fat Blast (1996), Hit the Spot : Rock Hard Abs (1996), Hit the Spot: Tone and Tighten – Abs, Buns & Thighs (1999), and Hit the Spot: Totally Toned Trio (1999), among many others.

Austin’s ESPN show was later moved to ESPNAltitude Sports and Entertainment, a regional cable and satellite sports channel, and then to the Lifetime network, where it was renamed “Fit and Lite” and “Denise Austin’s Daily Workout “. The shows were later canceled in 2008 when Austin revealed that she was working on producing a new program which was to debut the same year. However, the show did not debut as it became a member of the President’s Council on Fitness and Sports under the Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

Denise Austin’s net worth

Denise Austin has managed to earn a good living from her passion for fitness. She’s worked as a personal trainer for some of the most high-profile people in Hollywood and beyond, while also becoming an entrepreneur with the long-running series of workout tapes she’s been releasing for nearly three decades. Add to that other endeavors and you can see why a few reports have put his net worth in the tens of millions, however, the exact amount is not known to the public.

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Family – husband, children

For more than three decades, since April 30, 1983, to be exact, Denise Austin has been married to her husband, Jeff Austin, a former professional tennis player turned sports agent and brother of the former world champion and US Open, Tracy Austin.

Jeff Austin was an All-American in college while he was a member of the 1970 and 1971 NCAA championship-winning teams at the University of California, Los Angeles before turning pro. Before leaving the sport, he achieved the highest rank of 52 (October 15, 1973) in his professional career. Together they have two daughters. Kelly, born in 1990, and Katie, born three years later in 1993. Just like her mother, Katie is also a fitness trainer. She operates a Youtube channel where she has nearly 45,000 subscribers and a website called GetFitWithKatie.com.

Height and width

Denise Austin is as tall as the average American female as she is 1.63m (5ft 4in) tall. The exact figure of her weight, on the other hand, is not known, but knowing that she is a fitness guru, as can be seen in her photos, she is very fit.