She credited Kennedy for her transformation from an "overweight, frumpy 40-something" to a fitness fanatic.
"What Robert gave me will fill me for my lifetime. To walk this path without him is by far the biggest weight I have lifted yet though Robert trained me well....Goodbye my dear husband, friend and mentor."
Kennedy was born to an Austrian father and an English mother who were both school teachers. He grew up in Britain, where his passion for fitness was apparent from an early age. Kennedy and a friend would construct makeshift-weights from broomsticks and cement-filled tins, and save up to buy bodybuilding magazines from London.
Kennedy moved to Canada in 1967 where he initially taught art for five years in Brampton, Ontario.
