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Barbara Outland Baker

A year after leaving his home country of Austria and immigrating to the United States in 1968, Schwarzenegger met student Barbara Outland Baker while she was working at a deli, and he became instantly attracted to her. "You are so sexy. I need to ask you on a date," Baker recalled Schwarzenegger telling her at the time in the documentary. "He was handsome, charismatic. When he arrived for our date I was watching the moon landing, so we watched it together. He created laughter everywhere. He was so mesmerising."

Schwarzenegger and Baker dated from 1969 to 1975 and and even moved in together. Following their split, Schwarzenegger opened up about his relationship with Baker in his 1977 memoir, "Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder" (via The Washington Post), revealing their breakup was due to their different goals for their future. "She was a well-balanced woman who wanted an ordinary, solid life, and I was not a well-balanced man and hated the very idea of ordinary life," he said. "For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

In 2006, Baker penned a book about her and Schwarzenegger's relationship titled, "Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak," which detailed her experience witnessing Schwarzenegger's early success as a bodybuilder while also chasing her own dreams.

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