Entering her first competition

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having never picked up a wait karang G

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entered her first competition when all

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of us as a family showed up to support

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her when we approached their desk they

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had assumed that it was uh my brother

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and I that were competing we were very

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very proud to say that you know no it

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wasn't us it's in fact our very younger

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sister I think ever since then I wanted

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to to show people what I could do so I

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won that competition and 3 months after

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that I became British champion as well

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and I never look back I was never kind

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of had this conception that it was

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something for a man or a woman I just

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thought strength was for everyone often

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with South Asian women it could be they

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grow up they go to school they get a job

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they get married have children and

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that's it R and repeat sometimes it's

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that notion of parents just saying no

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that's not the done thing and I'm

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grateful that my parents will never like

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that I was raised to shatter glass

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ceilings karan's superpower didn't just

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appear overnight she spent hours

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training but luckily her gym is pretty

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local so welcome to my home gym this is

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where the magic happens I like to call

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this Temple of gains yeah we're 365 days

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a year we're in here no days off no

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birthdays no Christmas