MEET FEMALE BODYBUILDER WITH NO ARMS WHO LIFTS WEIGHTS, DRIVES AND DO MAKEUP WITH HER LEG (PHOTOS)

Seriously its inspiring seeing such courageous disable person who believes that her condition cannot affect her dream, if your still not getting me, look at the 37-year-old Barbie Thomas, who was said to have lost both her arm during a horrific electrical accident as a toddler  hasn't stopped her from pursuing her bodybuilding dream.

Barbie says she can do anything an average person can do - except she uses her feet.

That includes brushing her teeth, making dinner, taking milk out of the fridge, texting, shopping, putting on makeup and even driving.

The competitive mother-of-two was given an emotional standing ovation by competitors and spectators at the NPC Junior USA Bodybuilding Championship, South Carolina.

She said: "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 first introduced to Barbie when she requested that her trainer be allowed to come backstage - a request he normally rejects.

But was astonished when she said: "I need him to help me put on my costume. It's because I have no arms."

They have been firm friends ever since.

Barbie - who has been married three times - began 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 decided to take the plunge into the sport after years of doubting herself and wondering if she'd even qualify because she didn't have arms to do the competition mandatories: "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 her arms when she was two years old. She climbed onto an electrical transformer and grabbed the wires. The electricity entered her hands and surged through her body - scorching her arms down to the bone and turning them into something 'like 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."