Cancer Health Home>>Cancer>>Health news Written by: Cary Castagna, QMI Agency Jul. 13, 2012 Tosca Reno, left, does weights with trainer Rita Catolino, a resident of London, Ont., and certified personal trainer with GoodLife Fitness.(Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti photo) Click here for images of Tosca Reno.

Tosca Reno figures the best way to honour her late husband -- fitness guru and publishing magnate Robert Kennedy -- is to get her butt back in the gym and "re-enter the world of physique competition."

So that's what she's doing.

"I don't know if there's a right and wrong way to grieve," Reno, 53, says in a candid phone interview with Sun Media. "This feels right for me."

The well-known Canadian swimsuit model and New York Times bestselling author let her own health fall by the wayside during her husband's illness earlier this year.

"No one saw that coming," Reno says. "And it accelerated very, very quickly."

The man credited with coining the term "hardcore bodybuilding" suffered a stroke Jan. 29.

"He recovered from that," Reno recalls. "But at that time, we learned there were metastatic tumours in his brain that basically involved his entire brain and it wasn't very long for him."

Kennedy died April 12 at the family home in Caledon Hills, north of Toronto. He was 73.

Reno admits she has yet to come to terms with his death.

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