Explainer | Who is Calum Von Moger? Bio, injury, height, net worth, steroid use and Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayal
- The 30-year-old Australian rose to fame via social media after being asked to star in a YouTube video at 23
- He was cast to play iconic actor Arnold Schwarzenegger
With 3.2 million Instagram followers and 931,000 YouTube channel subscribers, Australian social media star and bodybuilder Calum Von Moger might be the most famous person you’ve never heard of.
The 30-year-old grew up in a town in central Victoria, Australia with five brothers and sisters on a tiny farm. At eight years old he moved to the coast in what he described as a “rascally” childhood. According to his website, the place where he grew up “undoubtedly helped shape his mindset on discipline and he learned to place a high valod and nutrition.”
When he turned 14, Von Moger and one of his brothers began weight training at an old warehouse with rusty iron barbells and dumbbells.
He made a name for himself online with his chiselled physique after his friend came into a GNC workout supplement store he was working in when he was 23. His friend “had this idea of making a little motivational workout video” and it “kind of blew up”, Von Moger said in the 2019 biopic about his life titled Calum Von Moger: Unbroken.
The clip would catapult Von Moger into fame as he became a fitness influencer almost overnight. The culmination of his career so far has been portraying a young Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Bigger, which came out in 2018 and revolved around brothers Joe and Ben Weider who founded the magazine Muscle & Fitness.
