You woke up this morning complaining that God hasnt blessed you?Read barbie's story then!
Dailymail reports that this past weekend at the NPC Junior USA Bodybuilding Championship, only one bodybuilder among hundreds of the men and women competing got a standing ovation.
Though she didn't win any major awards, armless bodybuilder Barbie Thomas had the Charleston, South Carolina crowd cheering and on their feet.
The 37-year-old mother-of-two lost both her arms during a horrific
electrical accident as a toddler - but that hasn't stopped her from
pursuing her bodybuilding dream
Thomas 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 single mom - 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.
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.'
Dailymail reports that this past weekend at the NPC Junior USA Bodybuilding Championship, only one bodybuilder among hundreds of the men and women competing got a standing ovation.
Though she didn't win any major awards, armless bodybuilder Barbie Thomas had the Charleston, South Carolina crowd cheering and on their feet.
The 37-year-old mother-of-two lost both her arms during a horrific
electrical accident as a toddler - but that hasn't stopped her from
pursuing her bodybuilding dream
Thomas 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 single mom - 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.
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.'
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