INSPIRATIONAL: SEE Mother who lost both her arms but is now a BODYBUILDER (PHOTOS)

A mother who lost both her arms from an electric shock as a toddler has found a love of bodybuilding.

Barbie Thomas, 37, has been competing against able bodied women in bodybuilding for over a decade after a youth crammed full of dance, soccer and swimming competitions.

The mother of two says there is little she cannot do. She shrugs off the amount of effort it takes to compete as a body builder and just like any other family, she says raising her two teenage sons is hard work.

But anything that could prove challenging makes her work even harder to achieve it, because she says her biggest inspiration is being told she can't do something.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, she said: 'Someone once told me that you know you can never win, and to this day those words light a fire under me like you would not believe. Because when someone tells me I can't do something I will bust my buns to prove them wrong.'

 Mrs Thomas lost both her arms when they were burnt to the bone by an electric shock when she climbed up onto a transformer and grabbed the wires with both hands.

- UKDailyMail

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