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Barbie Thomas: The Armless Body Builder

Good reading folks! What I am is a desperate human being trying very hard to convince myself to do exercise at least once a week! Well, let’s read one great story to inspire us to share our end of the bargain! Meet Barbie Thomas… Grabbling on to the wires after she climbed onto a transformer while playing outside her Texas apartment complex, at the age of 2, she lost both her arms. From her hands out her feet, the electric current traveled through her little body, burning her arms to the bone. Fitness Unarmed, her website biography, she quoted, "They were like charcoal. They were completely dead and had to be amputated at the shoulders." No one expected Thomas to live. Could you? But today, at 37, she has accomplished what was once regarded as the impossible: Thomas is a competitive body builder and model. "I thank God I am alive," Thomas exclaims, who now lives with her two sons, aged 13 and 17, in Phoenix. She uses her shoulders as arms, which her chi