managed to acquire 200k in savings, which she used to buy a house in Upstate New York, where she has lived ever since. She married Richard Allan Von Werder in 2000 after being engaged since 1986, and they remained married until his death in 2002. Her house in the Catskills area has a paradise-like property with 50 acres, a 5 acre island, 500 feet of riverfront, forests, fields, a swamp, creeks and a pond. According to Everts, God showed her which property to buy in a dream and said to her, "Go – I have a house for one of my deserving poor – you will be rich." They later found natural gas and oil under the property. Upon her death, Rasa ultimately plans to leave her property and all her money for a Sisterhood that will have a "Temple to Mother God", and convent for women who will conduct research and promotion for the general cause of Matriarchy. Her goal is to have this Sisterhood continue her work on the "New Religion for Women" that she founded, and send it out worldwide. Stasys Jakstas (1906-1979), a Lithuanian teacher, poet, and editor, was her father. Career Bodybuilding and stripping Everts was effectively the founder of female bodybuilding; prior to her it was extremely rare for women to do so. She first began competing in various bodybuilding contests in the NYC area in 1972. It was after her promotion, Esquire 6 page layout in July 1975 and then being on "To Tell the Truth", as well as the Mike Douglas Show and The Stanley Siegel Show, and subsequently getting female body building into Playboy, May 1977 (Humping Iron) that anyone began to hold serious female fitness and body building contests. The first was in 1979, IFBB Miss Fitness, and the next was the IFBB 1980 Ms. Olympia. She promoted the idea to get it accepted, and from 1975 to 1977 she was the only one notably promoting it. After those first two contests, many more were held. Hundreds of women began to train and enter contests, then thousands. She explains this further in one of her many books, The Origin & Decline of Female Body Building (2011), and also in her 2019 interview with David Robson. She trained for the 1981 competition but was barred from entering the Caesar's Palace Boardwalk Regency IFBB competition in Atlantic City. However, by then she