243:. This was her best performance in a professional IFBB event for her entire career, and she was considered a serious threat to the reigning champion, Iris Kyle. In interviews, she said the reason she was able to improve her standing was by speaking with judges and learning that her muscle mass was judged negatively for reducing her feminine shape. Laszewski said she reduced the size of her waistline for the contest by eliminating certain exercises from her workouts. She also admitted to doing no cardio for 6 weeks prior to the contest, a strong contrast to Nathalia Melo, the 2012 Bikini Olympia winner, who ran 10–12 miles a day for her competition. Her 2nd-place finish in the 2012 Ms. Olympia automatically enters her as one of five contestants to pre-qualify for the 2013 Ms. Olympia, to be held September 27, 2013. Following the 2012 Olympia, Laszewski categorized her current status as near "a pinnacle" where she could finally reap the results of years of work. She told an interviewer that she was confident that she could win the Ms. Olympia 2013 and Ms. International 2013. According to Muscle Insider, Laszewski was predicted to take 3rd place in the 2013 Ms. International contest, behind Iris Kyle and Yaxeni Oriquen, which she did at the 2013 Ms. International.
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finishing near the top, she finished 7th place. Laszewski said she did not apply herself in the 2001 competition nearly as hard, saying, "I just didn't have it anymore". She finished 12th in that competition, and placed nominal attention to bodybuilding competition for the next four years as a result. Between 2001 and 2005, Laszewski did not enter a single pro competition. Laszewski remained primarily a personal trainer without plans to compete professionally until 2005, when the introduction of the "light-heavyweight class" created a niche she felt more at ease with. Laszewski remained noticeably shorter and more compact than her competition, but believed she could shine against a larger group without the need to consistently lose weight, "I wasn’t as stripped down", Laszewski stated, and even so, a judge for the NPC said, "Don’t squeeze anything. Just show your shape."
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Laszewski discussing the matter with her fellow competitors. Gene X Magazine interviewed Laszewski and said she was clearly disappointed and felt somewhat hopeless in her chances of advancing towards the pros, "I always seem to do the wrong show at the wrong time", she said the day after her competition. She learned from the judges that she finished only 2 points away from Dena in the judging tally. Laszewski said she would have preferred to finish 6th or 7th than to come so teasingly close.
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taken some advice about enhancing a feminine X-shaped torso with great conviction. She has been encouraged and said she uses her creativity to enhance her physique for what the judges want consistently, even developing her own exercises to best meet those goals. Despite her disagreements with judging decisions in 2000 and 2005, Laszewski told
Bodybuilding.com in 2010 that she believed the judging system overall was fair. Laszewski turned pro after winning her class at the 2006 Nationals in
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where her strong physique was better suited to the professional league, but she could not enter the league without winning the amateurs. Laszewski and her boyfriend were highly disappointed, and spoke with Amanda Dunbar and Debbie
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