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Meet Barbie Thomas, the incredible armless female body builder, who is fast becoming an inspiration for the world.
The 37-year-old Barbie Thomas lost both her arms during an electrical accident as a child, but the inadequacy didn't deter from having a normal existence. You will be surprised to know that barbie can do everything like a normal human using her feet. Yes, you heard that right.
This living inspiration and competitive mother-of-two uses her feet to brush her teeth, cook dinner, text, shop, drive, put on make up and even lift weights.
Says the brave lady: "I'd say to anyone, you can do whatever you put your mind to. The only limitations are the ones you put on yourself. Everyone has limitations and handicaps in some way or another - mine are more visible than yours maybe."
Competition organiser, Tres Bennett, was the first to introduce Barbie. They have been firm friends ever since.
Barbie, who has been married three times, started bodybuilding back in 2003.
She said: "I used to read about all the fitness competitors in magazines - and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I wanted to be like them and do the things they were doing. I thought it was amazing."
Thomas made the plunge into sport after living in years of self-doubt: "I finally called the locale chairperson and talked to him about it; and he gave me the green light.”
"So in 2003 I entered my first fitness competition and loved it. Now it's in my blood and I can't live without it."
Thomas lost both her arms when she was just a two year old tot. She accidentally climbed onto an electrical transformer and grabbed the wires with both hands. The electricity penetrate into her hands and flowed into her body - burning her arms down to the bone and turning them into charcoal.
"The doctor said I wouldn't live - and if I did live, I'd probably be a vegetable," she said.
"But God had a different plan for me; I'm still here, healthy, and alive and well."
AW: Suchorita Choudhury
