Cassie Sainsbury is rebuilding her career after moving back to Australia last year following her release from Columbia’s notorious El Buen Pastor prison in 2020.
Dubbed ‘Cocaine Cassie’ after she was convicted for drug smuggling in the South American country, the failed gym owner, 27, has struggled to restart her life.
Now, after failing to find a normal job, she has decided to start a new online fitness venture inspired by the ‘body shape’ of the Columbian women she served time with.
‘I would look at all the women over there and they would have these beautiful bodies, with the whole curvy figure,’ she told Herald Sun on Friday.
‘And I thought, “I want that,” so I started a process of elimination about how to build certain muscles to give that illusion of having that Latin body shape.’
Cassie Sainsbury, 27, (pictured) is rebuilding her career after moving back to Australia last year following her release from Columbia’s notorious El Buen Pastor prison in 2020
Cassie went on to tell the publication she has started an online fitness program designed to target back, bum and leg muscles to create ‘an hourglass figure’.
Called the Cassie Leigh Fitness Hour Glass Body Challenge, the convicted drug smuggler said she will ‘donate’ 10 per cent of sales to a rehab charity in Adelaide.
‘I want to help people get to the point where they are happy and get into the mindset where they feel good about themselves,’ she said of her program.
Dubbed ‘Cocaine Cassie’ after she was convicted for drug smuggling in the South American country, the failed gym owner has struggled to restart her life
Cassie’s new business venture comes after she admitted to Herald Sun earlier this year that she has struggled to find a job since moving back to Australia last year.
‘Trying to get a job and move forward. I quite often get told that I’m a murderer, that I’m quite conniving and cold and don’t show remorse,’ she said.
‘People can’t show emotions because that’s a sign of weakness so I buried the sadness and I’d feel I pretty much got to a point where it would explode.’
Now, after failing to find a normal job, she has decided to start a new online fitness venture inspired by the ‘body shape’ of the Columbian women she served time with
Cassie was arrested in Columbia in April, 2017, when she was caught trying to leave the country with 5.8kgs of cocaine in her luggage.
The bust shot her to international infamy as she was dubbed ‘Cocaine Cassie’ and even landed a role on SAS Australia this year.
She was sentenced to six years behind bars at El Buen Pastor prison but only served three before she was released.
Cassie spent another two years on parole in South America before returning to Australia last year to live in Adelaide with her wife Tatiana.
Cassie was arrested in Columbia in April, 2017, when she was caught trying to leave the country with 5.8kgs of cocaine in her luggage
