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"Even in celebrity land, a kind of Russian toughness and professionalism was making inroads into physical culture. Oleg Bouimer, a former army pentathlete from Ukraine, for instance, has been performing his vigorous version of Soviet bodywork on Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Steven Meisel, and Tatiana von Furstenberg. “I have fibromyalgia,” said von Furstenberg, “so I’m in an enormous amount of pain. I need more than someone coming at me with oleander oil and trying to see my aura.”