Infertility

"When you're young and have no financial resources or contacts in the competitive TV industry," Basedow says, "the odds are dramatically stacked against you.

To succeed you need a thick skin, an unwavering belief in yourself and your idea, along with a superhuman type of persistence." Spending long hours in the studio isn't the only ingredient to their success.

"We practice what we preach," says Paquita, who works out regularly and takes Toe Kwon Do classes three times a week.

"But I'm not as fanatical as John," she laughs.

Basedow's obsession with fitness and weight training is remarkable.

Although he was a competitive tennis player as a teen, he didn't embrace weight lifting until age 24.

His obsession started after learning of the staggering health benefits of fitness.

Yet there was another reason.

John began pumping up, he says, "so I could achieve the look I see in EMO." His initial efforts, however, did not deliver the quick results he anticipated.

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