Dareen Barbar, Lebanese born on 19th January 1978, is a Trailblazing Motivator, Inclusive Fitness Advocate, and Guinness World Record Holder. Dareen stepped onto the world stage after making history in the most glamorous events on the planet, the World, Beauty, Fitness and Fashion Show in London 2017, where she competed in the Transformation and Makeover Division and won. She became the first Arab Amputee to participate in such a pageant. Lost her leg to cancer at the age of 15, which turned her life around. But that didn’t stop her from living her life to the full and overcoming the hardships. Her passion for sports was revived after her broken hip in 2013 that lead her to adopt a healthy life style of exercising and eating healthy and earned her fitness instructor and nutritionist qualification. Her journey has impacted and still impacting a lot of people from all over the world. Her latest achievements is her song BASMA بصمة. Dareen is a wife and a mother to two amazing kids. Her message is “disability is an extra-ordinary ability that makes the impossible possible”.
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