Jeanne Brady’s “Perfect Body” Gym Studios
Through my pilates history research, I had found a couple instances when a pilates studio in Denver, supposedly run but Joe Pilates’ niece and nephew, was mentioned. One day I decided I wanted to find out if it actually existed or not. Images first shared on 3/1/2025.
The first ad I found was this one, although it was very vague:
Through further research I found that the niece and nephew Joe was referring to were Jack and Jeanne Brady, who were actually married in NYC and at the time claimed to have lived with Joe and Clara at 939 8th Ave. We can see on their marriage licenses from 1940 that they said their occupation was “Physical Culturist.”
It took a lot of effort but I eventually did find that they left NYC and moved to Denver to open a Pilates Studio!
In fact, they lived just a few blocks away from the studio, as we can see through phone book listings. Their home still stands today.
According to Google maps, the building that the studio was in also still stands today, and is currently occupied by a tattoo shop.
Jeanne and Jack ended up getting divorced only a few years later, and by all accounts no longer continued to teach Contrology. Hopefully someday we can learn more about their studio!