Trivia

Everts was effectively the founder of female bodybuilding; prior to her it was extremely rare for women to do so. She first began competing in various bodybuilding contests in the NYC area in 1972. It was after her promotion, Esquire 6 page layout in July 1975 and then being on "To Tell the Truth", as well as the Mike Douglas Show and The Stanley Siegel Show, and subsequently getting female body building into Playboy, May 1977 (Humping Iron) that anyone began to hold serious female fitness and body building contests.

Initially, she had won the titles of Miss Nude Universe in July 1967, Miss Americana 2nd place and Best Body in 1972 (on the same stage with Arnold Schwarzenegger), Miss Body Beautiful 2nd place in 1973, Miss Body Beautiful U.S.A. first place in 1974, and Miss Americana 2nd place & Best Body 1974 (the same stage with Arnold Schwarzenegger again).

Combined burlesque and an avid interest in weight training to win numerous titles including Miss Body Beautiful 1969 and Miss Nude Universe 1969.

Raised in Freehold, New Jersey until she dropped out of school at 16 and began her dance career.

She is a German author, former stripper, female bodybuilder, photographer, evangelist, mystic, contemplative, and founder of a church.

She understands both Christianity and yoga.

She believes her mission is to empower women, and to restore the worship of God as Mother.

She made nine appearances in Playboy.

Her father, a professor, created a Lithuanian school in the Church's auditorium, on the heels of founding the first State Teacher's College in Kaunas, Lithuania.

She was deprived of money for necessities like clothes and dental care. She was verbally abused and was told that she was unattractive and valueless. Upon leaving home, Kellie struggled to prove herself.

She suffered mental and emotional abuse from her mother. Whenever Kellie got jobs, her mother would call up and have her fired.

Her Lithuanian parents, had fled from Lithuania (then part of the Soviet Union) under Stalin. The family ended up in a displaced persons camp, and in 1949 boarded the Navy ship USS Heintzelman bound for the US.

The first female fitness and body building contest was in 1979, IFBB Miss Fitness, and the next was the IFBB 1980 Ms. Olympia. She promoted the idea to get it accepted, and from 1975 to 1977 she was the only one notably promoting it. After those first two contests, many more were held. Hundreds of women began to train and enter contests, then thousands. She explains this further in one of her many books, The Origin & Decline of Female Body Building (2011), and also in her 2019 interview with David Robson.

On February 2, 2007, the World Bodybuilding Guild (WBBG) awarded her "Progenitor" of Female Bodybuilding and in August 2007 inducted her into their Hall of Fame.

At the age 5, Kellie was moved ahead a grade because of her artistic talents. She was considered a child prodigy. Her drawings were put into a children's gallery, and a Christmas card she drew at age 6 was mimeographed and hundreds of copies were distributed.

She had two pages of pictures on her "Stripping for God" in Playboy.

In 1988, she notably appeared on The Morton Downey Jr. Show. As a result of the blatant and outrageous mistreatment of her on the show by the host Morton Downey Jr., Everts had filed a libel lawsuit against both Downey as well as the television network on which the show was aired, WWOR-TV.

She first appeared as Miss Nude Universe, hers was the first female body builder as "Humping Iron", May 1977, predating Lisa Lyon's appearance by three years.

Everts traveled in the United States and Canada, giving over 1,000 sermons in burlesque theaters and nightclubs.

In September 1973, Everts gave her first spiritual talk (prior to dancing) at the Melody Theater in Times Square as a religious minister. The combination of stripper and spiritual religious conviction led to the creation of what the press called the "Stripper for God".

A month after finishing high school she ran away with the famous photographer of Marilyn Monroe, to Hollywood, CA, where she began her career in show business. She lived in Santa Monica next to the pier, where she married Stanley Everts in 1963 and had a daughter, also named Kellie. She later lived in the Pacific Palisades, then Beverly Hills, and then finally Hollywood itself.

She trained for the 1981 competition but was barred from entering the Caesar's Palace Boardwalk Regency IFBB competition in Atlantic City. However, by then she had already accomplished her goal of promoting bodybuilding for women, having laid the groundwork for it several years prior.

Upon her death, Rasa ultimately plans to leave her property and all her money for a sisterhood that will have a "Temple to Mother God", and convent for women who will conduct research and promotion for the general cause of Matriarchy. Her goal is to have this sisterhood continue her work on the "New Religion for Women" that she founded, and send it out worldwide.

Her dancing career went from March 1966 to August 1987, dancing coast to coast and all over Canada as well. She then quit to become a producer of her dancing and female domination videos, making enough money to purchase a large property with island in Upstate New York in 1989, where she has lived ever since.

As a guru of the new religious movement she founded, many of her followers believe she is an Avatar, or an incarnation of God, much like Ramakrishna.