The Voice of Calgary's Buisness Community
The Voice of Calgary's Buisness Community
The Voice of Calgary's Buisness Community





Business in Calgary is a monthly publication dedicated to producing intelligent, colorful articles about the people, trends and events that make Calgary a prominent business centre in the west.

This Month's Issue: Just winning it!

  Mrs. Canada 2008 finds business success with her nutrition and fitness consulting firm, Losin’ It! Inc., and stardom on the pageant stage as she heads to Chicago to compete in Mrs. International.

Kelly Robbins had a fighting spirit from the moment she was born. When her twin brother was born 22 minutes ahead of her in her hometown of Burlington, Ontario, the doctors had no idea she was even there until that fighting spirit came through and she joined the world for the first time, much to the surprise of doctors and her parents.
Thirty-seven years later, the wife and mother of three children has taken her fighting spirit into the world of business and, somewhat unintentionally, to the stages of international pageant competitions.
It was an ordinary evening with the kids when Robbins first got the idea. “We were watching Miss Universe last year where Miss USA slipped and fell,” she explains. “One of my kids turned to me and said, ‘Mommy, you’re so pretty you should do something like that,’ and I laughed because I’m just not that kind of pageantry type. It was a stereotype I wanted to avoid.”


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The Voice of Calgary's Buisness Community
The Voice of Calgary's Buisness Community