American Gladiator 'Nitro' talks about steroids in bitch tits in autobiography

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Gladiator 'Nitro' fesses up about steroids and his 'man boobs'
[SIZE=-1]Examiner.com [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The latest one is from Dan Clark, a.k.a. Nitro, one of the original He-men from American Gladiators. Not surprisingly, Clark has written a book about his steroid experiences, called Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]He should have called it All About My Man Boobs, since that seems to be the crux of his story, and his warning to impressionable teenagers. While Jose Canseco's memoir Juiced was really an expose about steroids in pro sports, Clark's book seems to be little more than a litany of all the icky things that can happen when you take steroids. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]"Bitch t- -s, man boobs, breast-chesticles is what they're called on the street. Gynecomastia is the scientific name. No matter what you call it, I [had] it," Clark told the New York Post. His use of the 'roids also resulted in some painful bedroom conversations with lady friends. Painful for us to read, that is. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]So Clark is remorseful because steroids gave him man-boobs and shriveled his testicles. Boo-hoo. Remember Lyle Alzado? That guy died. [/SIZE]

DAN Clark loved the power steroids gave him - until the "American Gladiators" star discovered the muscle-enhancing drugs made him grow man-boobs, shrank his privates and turned sex into a painful experience.

"Bitch t- -s, man boobs, breast-chesticles is what they're called on the street. Gynecomastia is the scientific name. No matter what you call it, I [had] it," Clark, who was "Nitro" on the smash reality series, reveals in his memoir, "Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage and Redemption," out next month. "I hate[d] taking off my shirt. For photo shoots, [I'd] wet my nipple with spit . . . [to] look firm instead of hanging down."

As he shot seven seasons of "American Gladiators" from 1989 to 1996, he pleaded with the wardrobe stylist to make him a new uniform, but didn't tell her it was "to hide my budding breasts." He eventually underwent reduction surgery.

Clark, a former LA Rams defensive lineman, used steroids for 20 years. They also took their toll on his private parts, so much so that he embarrassingly had to explain to women what was going on. "My b- - -s never really regained their size. They're kind of shriveled," he sadly told one bedmate. In addition, steroids subjected him to a "dull throbbing pain" every time he had sex.

Clark, 44, says when he first started injecting steroids, he gained a whopping 32 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks and topped the scales at 262.

After finally going for therapy, Clark kicked his habit. He writes: "The treacherous steroid path. I always thought I could handle it. But the drug handled me. Easily and completely . . . I was never big enough or strong enough for myself." Clark, who was in the Meryl Streep movie "Death Becomes Her" and the Christian Bale flick "Equilibrium," is a consultant on the new version of "American Gladiators."

'STEROIDS MADE SEX LIFE HELL'

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