Revealed: The Sydney gym where Rita Ora and Taika Waititi, Pip Edwards, and top NRL players get their bodies

She’s the secret behind some of Sydney’s buffest bodies: Kirsten King regularly puts celebs including Pip Edwards, Rita Ora, Taika Waititi and top NRL players through their pilates paces.

Rita Ora, left, is among a flood of big names being put through their pilates paces by Kirsten King at her Sydney gym. Pictures: Instagram/John Appleyard

Hollywood’s hottest couple got in shape for their sizzling Vogue cover shoot in the heart of Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Rita Ora and Taika Waititi are doing private sessions at Fluidform pilates in Clovelly, with the UK songstress prompting her director husband to “pop in” to try it out.

“I was playing my new album while working out,” Ora captioned a recent Instagram carousel of videos with the sound off.

“Should I set up a competition to do a one-on-one class with me and my trainer?” Ora asked her 16.1 million followers.

Ora’s trainer is Kirsten King, who founded the intimate gym that also has locations in Surry Hills, Bondi, Rozelle, Randwick, Newcastle, and Melbourne.

Rita Ora & Taika Waititi for Vogue Australia June 2023 issue. Picture: Robbie Fimmano for Vogue Australia.

““It’s okay to be a little bit earnest — this is us, and our relationship, and we’re looking good, and it’s such a new thing for me and I just loved it,” Kiwi director Taika Waititi said in Vogue Australia’s June 2023 cover feature. Picture: Robbie Fimmano.

“Rita and Taika are still here, I taught the two of them together last weekend,” King told The Daily Telegraph.

“They have fabulous energy together. He was hilarious, and she was laughing at him.

Kirsten King in her Fluidform pilates studio in Surry Hills. Kirsten founded her first Fluidform in Waterloo 10 years ago, and has been training celebrities for almost as long. Picture: John Appleyard/The Daily Telegraph.

“Obviously she’s coming regularly, and he did a couple of really challenging pop-in sessions with her.

“They’re so friendly and gorgeous, they get around like normal people too which is nice.”

King is no stranger to having famous faces in front of her mirrors.

Rita Ora doing pilates in Sydney. Picture: Instagram.

Rita Ora on The Cadillac machine at Fluidform pilates studio in Clovelly. Picture: Instagram.

“International and local celebrities, supermodels, and elite athletes are happy to come into the studios because they’re intimate,” she said, noting that reformer class sizes cap at six people.

“They come in knowing that it is a really safe haven for them.”

King lists off Rabbitohs and Rooster players Cam Murray and Campbell Graham, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Billy Smith, as well as Buddy and Jesinta Franklin.

Pilates instructor Kirsten King said Ora is “super adorable and down to earth”. Picture: Instagram.

Rita Ora often sings while she works out. Picture: Instagram.

“We have a lot of male clients, and specifically NRL players. For any injury the boys come and do their prehab and rehab here,” she said.

“We have a lot of females that start and then their partners see them looking great, and they end up coming together.”

PE Nation founder Pip Edwards has been attending for seven years, often alongside Victoria’s Secret model Georgia Fowler. Lara Worthington visits when she’s in town.

Kirsten King started doing pilates to rehabilitate a knee injury, and never looked back: “It’s more about high repetition targeting your slow twitch fibres which are your stabilising muscles, that help provide strength and stability and endurance to your bigger fast twitch muscles, working from the inside out.” Picture: John Appleyard/The Daily Telegraph.

“Our clients are longstanding,” King said, also listing models Victoria Lee, Nicole Warne, Margaret Zhang, and hairstylist Jen Atken.

“What I love with Rita, is she will just start singing mid-workout,” King said, meaning she’s one of the first to hear Ora’s third studio album You & I, which threads together the narrative of her love story with Waititi, track by track.

“Her sister is quite often with her as well,” King continued. “They are beautiful, natural girls and really encouraging towards each other. Rita also sings whatever’s on in the studio.”

Originally published as Revealed: The Sydney gym where Rita Ora and Taika Waititi, Pip Edwards, and top NRL players get their bodies