Stephanie Rice isn’t skipping arms day – even on her honeymoon.
The n swimming champion, 38, who is in Paris with her new husband Mark Lassey, 46, began her Thursday with a heart-pumping strength workout.
Steph flaunted her bulging biceps and muscled thighs, as she filmed herself doing a set of bicep curls with 9kg dumbbells and then trained her shoulders with upright cable rows.
She grimaced curling the weights and dripped with sweat in her red bike shorts and cropped shirt, despite the 6°C temperature in the City of Love.
‘Great workout this morning!! So happy with my strength progress this year,’ the three-time gold medal winner captioned her workout videos.
‘Excited to set some new fitness goals for 2025 when back from holidays!’
Stephanie Rice has taken a cheeky swipe at her former life whilst on her honeymoon in Paris, saying she can’t ‘believe’ some Olympic swimmers competed in the Seine last year
The retired n swimming champion, 38, began her Thursday with a heart-pumping strength workout, as she congratulated herself for making progress on her strength
Steph flaunted her bulging biceps and muscled thighs, as she filmed herself doing a set of bicep curls with 9kg dumbbells and then trained her shoulders with upright cable rows
The former Olympic swimmer and pastor arrived in Paris after spending their first days as newlyweds in the tropical Maldives.
After her morning workout, Steph and Mark headed to Angelina Café near the Louvre museum.
The century-old Parisian café is famous for its ‘chocolat chaud’ (hot chocolate) made with African cocoa from Niger, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast.
It’s so loved in France that the company even bottles the recipe and sells it online, and in many French grocery stores.
‘All the calories we burned in the gym this morning vanished with one sip,’ Steph captioned a video of her husband, who said ‘really rich is understatement’ for the beverage.
The couple went and checked out the Louvre, conducting a honeymoon photoshoot outside the famous glass pyramid entrance, and then enjoyed a romantic stroll along the river Seine.
‘Still can’t believe some athletes swam in here during the Olympics,’ Steph captioned a snap of the murky waters, with a squeamish emoji.
Steph retired from competitive swimming in 2014, after swimming her final Olympic race in London.
‘I think it’s so special that Mark and I have never been to Paris before, so we get to share it together for the first time,’ Stephanie Rice captioned her Parisian honeymoon snaps
‘I purposely never travelled here because I felt it would amplify my desire for love and how alone I was if I came to the city of love as a single woman…’
‘So to be here now, as a wife, married to my best friend, it’s a testament of how kind God is and how quickly He can turn your life around.’
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‘I think it’s so special that Mark and I have never been to Paris before, so we get to share it together for the first time,’ she captioned a carousel of photos from their day out.
‘I purposely never travelled here because I felt it would amplify my desire for love and how alone I was if I came to the city of love as a single woman.
Her words come after she stunned fans with not one, but two Perth weddings to Mark after a 10-month romance.
‘So to be here now, as a wife, married to my best friend, it’s a testament of how kind God is and how quickly He can turn your life around,’ she said.
The couple met at the start of 2024 and got engaged in September after seven months of dating.
Steph moved back to to complete her MBA of business, and they have been doing long distance love since last November.
‘So to all my single women out there praying for their God given relationship, know that God can do miraculous things in a split second…trust His timing and His plan…it could be right around the corner,’ she finished her caption.
Steph tied the knot with her pastor husband following a whirlwind 10-month romance. She then held a second wedding – again in Perth – before they jetted off to the Maldives
Stephanie Rice (pictured) is kicking back in the playground of the rich and famous on her honeymoon. The former Olympian and her pastor husband are now in Paris, after spending a week in the Maldives
Mark is a pastor with the same organisation in Perth and has been with the church for more than 10 years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Kingdom City started in Perth in 2003 and has since gone global with branches in Africa, Europe and Asia in addition to the Middle East.
Steph joined the church when she relocated to Dubai late last year and is now heavily involved with Kingdom City.
Mark is a father to three sons – Tyler, Joel and Luke – from a previous relationship.
‘Your [sic] my dream come true,’ he commented on her post. It shows God is truly a God of the second chances and new beginnings. I love doing life with my best friend.’
Steph was in tears during her time on SAS in October 2023, as she detailed her lack of purpose since quitting swimming and desperate longing for a partner.
‘I really struggled,’ she told Ant Middleton on-air. ‘I felt really lost after I finished swimming.
‘I didn’t feel like I had any purpose or any direction and I didn’t feel like anybody understood.
‘I felt like I haven’t really trained for anything since I finished competing – like I haven’t really had a goal to work towards, one specific thing.’
Ant then asked what the Aussie swim star had to look forward to when she returned home after the show.
‘At the moment, not a lot,’ she replied.
‘I think it’d be nice to have somebody to go through the harder times. I would love to have somebody to help through, like ride the waves.’
Her love life has previously made headlines around the world.
After splitting from Aussie swimming great Eamonn Sullivan following the Beijing Olympics, rumours spread that Steph had been romantically linked with Michael Phelps, former NRL winger David ‘Wolfman’ Williams and Aussie swimming bad boy Nic D’Arcy.