However, she achieved significant success in 1986 by winning the Pro World Championship, placing second (by one point) in the Ms. Olympia, but did poorly with a 14th placing. By the end of 1985 she competed in her first Ms. Later that same year she qualified for the World Amateur Championship, where she achieved first place. In 1984, she won the Dutch National Championship and repeated as champion in 1985. In 1983, she decided to become a bodybuilder after she visited a bodybuilding contest in 1983 and noticed how good the girls looked. In 1982, she would enter her first competition, where she placed first. She began training in bodybuilding to lose weight in 1981 with her ex-husband after attending a female bodybuilding contest where she got a very good impression of the competitors. She got married (married name – Meijer) in 1975, but divorced in 1985. Īfter finishing school she went on to study financial management, journalism and fitness training. That period in her life, she believes, made her a disciplined and responsible person. During her childhood she lost two brothers, causing much grief to her mother, who laid a larger responsibility on Juliette, the oldest living child.
Her younger sister is a bodybuilder much like herself. She is one of five children, with one older brother, two younger brothers and one younger sister (three brothers and one sister).
Bergmann (born Juliette Maria Suzanna Bergmann) was born in Vlaardingen, Netherlands, from a Dutch mother and an Indonesian father.