5 Things you did not know about Germaine de Randamie

#2 She started Muay Thai training to lose weight

She also worked as a nurse

Not much is known about de Randamie’s early life, truth be told. We know her mother is Dutch and her father is Afro-Surinamese. We know that early in her life, she worked as a nurse. Yes, she was a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.

During that stint, she worked excessively with children. The only other fact we know from her childhood is that Germaine de Randamie became interested in Muay Thai, simply to lose weight and become totally lean. She began at the age of fifteen and since then there’s been absolutely no looking back. We’re glad she didn’t just go on a diet.