BAENA
Joseph

• 1. Career
• 1.1. Fitness modeling
• 1.2. Realty career
• 1.3. Dancing with the Stars

Joseph Baena is an American actor and fitness model, who is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Career

Fitness modeling

Baena was featured on the cover of the Men's Health March 2022 issue, highlighting his fitness practices and his familial bonding with his father. Taking up weight lifting, his father gave him the book The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding that Schwarzenegger co-authored to assist Baena with his training.

Realty career

Baena expressed an interest in starting a career in real estate on Instagram in May 2021. After taking the necessary classes and passing the state boards, Baena successfully earned his State of California Realtor's License in 2022 and is currently affiliated with Aria Properties in Los Angeles, California.

Dancing with the Stars

In 2022, Baena was a contestant on the 31st season of Dancing with the Stars where he was paired with Daniella Karagach. They were eliminated 5th and placed in 11th of the competition. Trying to distance himself from prejudgements, and creating his own grounds, "the young Arnold son says that he is not just breaking down the 'dance floor' but is also 'breaking the barriers in his family.'" His body type, flexibility and fitness training are not particularly well adapted to dancing, which he personally foresaw as being challenging.

Baena offered the opinion that physical fitness became his watchword because, "I couldn't keep up with the other guys." In a podcast interview, he confessed that he was both unfit and bullied. In college, he had an epiphany: "I was like the chubby kid in my... crew, and, um yeah. It wasn't until I joined swim my sophomore year..." When he could not run, leaving him unfit for soccer and basketball, he settled on joining the swim team.