Lisa Lyon — a sport changer in skilled girls’s bodybuilding — has died, TMZ has discovered.

A similar buddy who has been serving to Lisa and her community tells us, Lisa died Friday at her house within the San Fernando Valley, the place she was once in hospice assist. We’re informed the reason for demise was once pancreatic most cancers.

Lisa famously posed for Playboy again in 1980, and the hour prior to she received the primary Global Federation of Bodybuilders Girl’s International Professional Bodybuilding Championship. It was once a abundance fulfillment that truly put girls’s bodybuilding at the map.

She was a staple at the TV communicate display circuit, additionally showing in a slew of fitness and condition magazines. She even wrote a hold — “Lisa Lyon’s Body Magic” — which was once printed in 1981.

She additionally modeled for iconic photog Robert Mapplethorpe.

Lisa was once inducted into the Global Health and Bodybuilding Federal Corridor of Status again in 2000 … for serving to to lift bodybuilding into an artwork mode.

And talking of raising bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger informed TMZ, “She is the best. I love her.”

Lisa was once 70.