Adam Dubanowitz once bagged groceries at a ShopRite in Paramus.
Now everyone’s checking him out!
The 26-year-old supermarket employee-turned-model recalled his struggles to get in front of the camera while balancing 70 hours a week at ShopRite.
“It really wasn’t much fun at a certain point,” Dubanowitz laughed, looking back at his grocery career.
“I mean at the beginning it was great, surreal getting all kinds of opportunities I never had before. But then working 50, 60, 70 hours, it Bahis Siteleri became impossible to maintain a diet, workout and get my name out there.”
So after a long talks with his girlfriend, Dubanowitz finally bagged that ShopRite gig at the end of 2015, losing the steady paycheck and health insurance.
It’s paid off, putting Dubanowitz on the express lane to modeling and bodybuilding fame.
The New Jersey native scored a major layout in gay publication “DNA Magazine” this month and was featured prominently in “Fashionably Male” last year.
Now he’s working out and getting ready for a major bodybuilding event around the corner – the John Kemper Classic in Woodbridge, NJ, on April 1.
Amazingly, there was a time not too long ago when the bashful beefcake was too shy to even don a tank top at his local gym.
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“I just never felt very confident in myself, I don’t know what kind of anxiety it was,” said the muscular Dubanowitz, once a skinny 5-foot-7 high school grad and now a beefed up 5-10.
He tailored a stay-at-home regimen of pull-ups and sit-ups before finally working up the courage to hit Retro Fitness in Hackensack in 2015 for a one-week guest pass.
“I was afraid going to the gym thinking everyone would be looking at me – being so small, so weak,” he said. “When in fact, no one was watching me. I mean I was the new guy at the gym, no one was noticing me.”
That’s where Dubanowitz met photographer Bart Ruzik, touching off his shirtless, muscle-bulging career.
“I was skeptical, of course I checked out all his work,” the hunky model said. “You see it in the movies or in Hollywood, `Hey I discovered this guy on the street or in a club’ but you never think this happens in real life.”
Dubanowitz also works as a personal trainer and has more than 25,000 followers on his Instagram account.
“You got to get out of your comfort zone,” the William Paterson University dropout said. “If you don’t you’re always going to be insecure and not know the real person you are.”
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