Why can't a Bengali woman be a bodybuilder?

Season 3 - Episode 14: I wanted to look stronger, feel stronger.
I wanted to feel more confident. I wanted to feel like I could do
what guys can do because I've been told as a kid; “no, you can't
do this because you're not a guy” in both American society and
Bangladeshi society. “Women are fragile. Women are supposed to
need men.” So then when I got into weightlifting, I started
feeling like there's nothing really that I can't do just because
I'm a female.


So I told myself that I could build a character, if I just put
myself out there and took responsibilities, and not rely on my
parents and not overwork my parents, even more than what they
have been doing their whole life, you know, they came all the way
from the village with no electricity to here. And they've had to
work a lot, 60 70 hours a week. So I decided that I'm going to
learn how to manage my time to be good at my academics. So since
high school, I took responsibility to say I'm going to get
straight A's, I'm going into a really good college, I'm going to
handle my own bills, I started working really young, so that time
management came from experience because I put myself out there, I
said I'm not gonna learn unless I do it.


I just want to continue to help my clients and even maybe expand
my horizon with the type of clients that I have. So I want to get
some people into the competitive air every now like I'm trying to
see if I could get another Bangladeshi in bodybuilding.


Listen to the entire conversation with Body Builder, Fahmida
Sheuly, on the BoNY Podcast.


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