Billy Blanks Biography & Net Worth
Billy Blanks is a well known person in sports world. He is martial artist, fitness trainer, what is more, Billy sometimes works as an actor. To many people in the world, Billy is known as the creator of exercising program, titled Tae Bo. How rich is Billy Blanks? Well now Billy Banks net worth is about $30 million dollars. As Billy is a successful martial artist and fitness coach, as well as an actor, there is a high possibility that 30 million dollars is not the end for Billy Blanks’s net worth’s growth. Billy Blanks was born in 1955 in Pennsylvania. Billy’s full name is Billy Wayne Blanks but for the big part of the world he is simply known as Billy Blanks.
Billy’s childhood was kind of difficult, as he suffered from dyslexia and had problem in his hip joints which didn’t allow him to move normally. Many children of Billy’s age made fun of his anomaly. Billy decided that he wanted to do martial arts when once he saw Bruce Lee on television, from that day Blanks started to go on karate lessons. At first no one believed that Billy will be able to achieve much as he had some problem with his hips. Despite this fact, studying karate helped Billy not only became noticed but also helped him to solve his problems with movements. Billy’s choice to study karate was a decision which later brought a lot of money to Billy Blank’s net worth.
In 1988 Billy started his career as a bodyguard. He worked for famous American actress, Catherine Bach. Obviously this made Billy’s net worth higher, not to mention the fact that while working as a bodyguard he was noticed by several producers, who were impressed by his skills and suggested Billy some roles in such movies as Bloodfist, King of the Kickboxers, Kiss the Girls and The Last Boy Scout. During the filming of these movies Billy had an opportunity to work with Ashley Judd and Tony Scott.
Another activity which added up a lot to Billy Blank’s net worth was Tae Bo exercising program, which was created by Billy himself. This program includes the elements of martial arts and boxing. In order to teach other this workout Billy opened fitness center. After this Billy’s exercising program became popular among many people, its popularity grew up even higher when Billy started to make videos, explaining the basics of Tae Bo. The popularity of Billy’s exercising program gained him acclaim and a lot of money, which affected Billy’s net worth.
Billy is still making a lot of money from his career as fitness trainer, martial artist and of course as an actor. He was able to prove that doesn’t matter if you have some health problems and if many make fun of you at first, you can still be successful and achieve much more than those people that made fun of you. Now Billy is a well known person who is respected and acclaimed by many.
