Colin Wayne is an ex-United States of America army/war veteran, a professional bodybuilder, fitness model and entrepreneur. His dream was to join the US Army as a teenager – which he did, but an accident ended that career and so he turned around that misfortune to his great advantage and became a bodybuilder cum fitness model, and later built a business that is said to gross $ 30 million in sales yearly.
Colin Wayne Biography
Colin Wayne was born on August 25, 1989, in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States of America. He was brought up by a single mother, although there is no indication that he has any siblings.
He was a very athletic child growing up and was involved in sports such as basketball, American football, baseball, and soccer, but sadly he had a somewhat skinny and frail-looking frame which didn’t put him in a good condition while being actively involved in these sports.
As regards his education, he is a dropout before going on to join the military after obtaining his GED. With so much to his name, Colin is also a social media star who has more than 2.5 million followers on his Facebook page and close to a million followers on Instagram.
What is the Net Worth of Colin Wayne?
Colin is reportedly worth $ 10 million currently. He made most of his money from his modeling career and his online and social media fitness programs. He is also an entrepreneur, and the business must be paying him dividends as well.
Height and Weight
Colin is a bodybuilder and model, and so has a very incredible physique and level of fitness. He is 6 feet and 2 inches (1.88 meters) tall and weighs about 98 kilograms (215 lbs). He has brown hair and green eye color.
Other Facts About The Bodybuilder
Here are a few other interesting facts worth knowing about colin:
1. MILITARY CAREER.
When he got into high school, he decided he wanted to pursue a career in the military and joined the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC). A month after his 17th birthday, Colin joined the Alabama Army National Guard, and just a week later after his enlistment, he was shipped off for his basic and advanced individual training program in order to become a military police officer. He was in the training program for about 23 weeks and was deployed to Cairo, Egypt after his training in 2008.
After deployment, Colin worked as a Security Operations Manager for a retirement home, where he had about 20 other security personnel working with him. He resigned from this job after a year and was deployed by the US Army to Afghanistan in 2009. In 2012, he was deployed back to Afghanistan as a Department of Defence civilian contractor to help prosecute the war. In 2012, an unfortunate incident happened that could have ended his life, a rocket exploded less than 4 feet away from him while he was in a gym doing his fitness workouts. The impact and loud explosion from the bomb left him with permanent ringing in his ears, fragments of the bomb were embedded in both of his arms, and shrapnel tore a big hole in one of his legs. He spent about 6 months in physical therapy to recover from this injury.
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2. MODELING CAREER.
After recovering fully from his bomb accident, he took to bodybuilding and approached a few fitness magazines to appear on their covers as a fitness model, and so far he has appeared on more than 50 cover pages. As his popularity grew, he took to social media where he has amassed cumulatively about 3.8 million followers and subscribers till date.
3. WIFE AND SON.
Colin had his first son in 2012 and got married to his wife, Breanne Christine Erwin in 2015.
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