This Ripped 8-Year-Old Looked Like A Miniature Bodybuilder. But 16 Years On, He’s Totally Changed

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The turning point came for him as an 11-year-old boy. At that time, Pavel was sent to prison for domestic violence against his wife. In fact, it was Richard who called the police after his father broke his mom’s nose and wrist.

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With his dad now out of the picture, Richard decided to give up bodybuilding. But what do you do next when you’ve had such an unusual childhood?

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“I set myself on fire,” Richard revealed in a 2015 interview with Inside Edition. But before you think he was talking suicide, hold that thought. In fact, he set himself on fire around five times a day – as part of his stuntman job at Universal Studios.

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Asked in the same interview if he was ashamed of his past, Richard said, “I’m very proud of my past. It’s not something I don’t want people to know, it’s just that I’m not going to be stuck living in it.”

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Richard is now a six-foot-tall man who doesn’t have quite the same ripped physique he had as a child. That’s not to say he’s not in good shape; he’s still athletic and skateboards regularly to keep fit.

This Ripped 8-Year-Old Looked Like A Miniature Bodybuilder. But 16 Years On, He’s Totally Changed

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