At 82, Beverly Hills Jump Rope Queen Holds 11 Guinness World Records

Annie Judis does not ease into mornings. Every day, the 82-year-old Beverly Hills resident films herself jumping rope for a full minute, then uploads the footage to Instagram, where 187,000 followers watch her command them to "move it, let's go." This week, Guinness World Records confirmed her 11th title: oldest competitive rope skipper (female), a record she first set at age 75 and has been extending ever since.

Her most recent competitive performance came at the Prickly Pear Open 2025 in Tucson, Arizona, on April 5, 2025, where she competed at 81 years and 133 days old under the American Jump Rope Federation. The April 2026 Guinness confirmation, at age 82, makes her the oldest woman in the world to have competed in rope skipping at the sport's organizational level.

Jump rope is only one entry in an expanding record book. At 80 years and 244 days, Judis held an abdominal plank for more than three minutes, earning the Guinness title for oldest person to perform the feat as a female. On November 11, 2024, her 81st birthday, she completed a dead hang position long enough to claim that record as well. She also holds the mark for oldest person to complete a farmer's walk over 20 meters.

The records arrive at the end of a life that has consistently defied categorical expectations. Born Annie Lee Morgan in the Midwest and raised in Houston, Texas, Judis was a second runner-up in the Miss Texas Pageant before relocating to Hollywood to pursue acting and modeling. In 1969, she became the first African American woman on the cover of Playboy. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared in dozens of films and television programs, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Starsky and Hutch, The Jeffersons, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, and Blaxploitation films such as TNT Jackson (1975), Trouble Man (1973), and The Klansman (1974). She was married to Gary Judis for 44 years until his death.

Her current training schedule involves a personal trainer three days a week, with jump rope integrated daily. The discipline behind the records is deliberate. "You don't want to end up 80 and in a wheelchair," she has told her followers, "because you will end up in a wheelchair at my age, if you don't move your body." Her mantra, "Health is Wealth," is the animating principle behind a public platform she uses with specific purpose.

That platform now extends to publishing. Judis authored and illustrated the children's book Beverly Hills Jump Rope Queen, published by Blackstone Publishing and available on Amazon and Apple Books. The story follows a shy girl named Daisy whose life changes after meeting a woman named Annie who introduces her to jump rope. The book reflects Judis's concern that one in five American children is obese and that jump rope, which she calls "the best thing for their health," has largely disappeared from childhood.

"It's never too late to start," Judis said. "I just want people to think about their health because it is so important. If you don't have your health, nothing else is good."

At 82, with 11 Guinness titles and a children's book in print, she is not finished adding to either count.