Personal Life
Mark Henry is the cousin of former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Kevin Henry. Henry's father, Ernest, died of complications from diabetes when Henry was twelve. He has an older brother, Pat. When Henry was fourteen, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.
As a kid, Mark was a big wrestling fan and Andre the Giant was his favorite wrestler. While attending a wrestling show in Beaumont, Texas as a fan, young Mark wanted to touch Andre as he was walking down the aisle, but he tripped over the barricade. Andre picked him up out of the crowd, and put him back behind the barricade.
Henry played American football in high school, until his senior year, when he strained ligaments in his wrist.
Henry comes from a family in which almost all of the men are gigantic, especially his Great Uncle Chudd, who was 6’7″, weighed approximately 500 pounds, never had a pair of manufactured shoes, and was known as the strongest man in the woods of east Texas.
Today, Henry lives in New York with his wife Jana and his son Jacob. As of 2002, he has driven a Hummer that he won in the Arnold Strongman Classic that same year.
Henry is also a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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