Every individual reaches that difficult juncture of life when he or she has to let go of the comforts of the certainties of life and venture out to battle the unknown. Life becomes a riddle and every path taken seems like a maze that has got some real scare in store to blow the wits out of your head. You seem to lose your head now and then and feel lost, and just think when would this battle cease? Why can’t just everything go back to normal? Well, you might not get any answer to that, but when life throws lemons at you, you make lemonade out of them! This is exactly what Kiran Dembla did. Starting as a homemaker who had no other purpose or passion in life but to take care of her family, Kiran is now an embodiment of inspiration to the Indian youth especially the modern women of India. Well, the transformation has not been easy though! But that is what life is all about; one has to either succumb to the sudden avalanche of misery or muster up all the strength and courage to fight back and that is what Kiran Dembla, bodybuilder, a homemaker, and an inspiration chose to do.
Kiran Dembla was a homemaker from Hyderabad who had the conventional setup of a happy marriage, a doting husband, and kids. Her philosophy of life was uncomplicated until the doctor detected a fatal illness. Kiran was having blood clots in her brain and it was racing towards a lethal outcome for her. The usual nonchalance of Kiran started eroding as the daily routine of her life consisted of popping medicines and submerging in the depth of slumber. Soon enough, the lack of any physical activity and the medicines took their toll on Kiran’s health and she gained almost 75 kgs of weight. That she was demotivated and sank into low self-esteem would be an understatement, she was losing hope when yoga lessons and swimming failed to get her back to her old physical form.
Kiran decided that she won’t let those kilos take her down just like that and resolved to turn the tables. She decided to join a gym to shed the additional weight. But the moment she got into the gym, which was literally the den of masculinity, it immediately made Kiran quiver. Her awkwardness and nervousness made Kiran desperate to run for an invisibility cloak to mask herself, never to be found again. Nevertheless, the magical solution arrived in the form of an online course that helped her regain her self-esteem. Not only that, but the men who were initially intimidating to Kiran with their mere presence, also became her friends and supported her to a great extent. Within the span of a few days, Kiran not only shed her inhibitions but also started shedding her weight by working really hard for several hours in the gym.
Dreams have this quality of making a person chase after them and go roundabout in an endless quest. The same thing happened to Kiran as she wanted to do something more with her newly found love for a fit and healthy body. That is why she took a very unconventional step of getting six-pack abs and focusing more on bodybuilding which was strictly viewed as a genre dominated by men. The fact that a housewife with a husband and two children, who recently recovered from a deadly ailment was going to flaunt her muscles before a world full of men was the thought that unhinged many, including her husband. Many tried to malign Kiran Dembla’s image by trolling her and bombing her with backlashes and negative criticism on social media, and all of that was just because an opinionated woman who has just started loving her body had refused to bow down to the societal norms and do something that no other women have dared to do till then. Well, Kiran Dembla made sure to silence all these haters through her grit and dedication, when she not only took part in the World Bodybuilding Championship that was being held in Budapest but also secured the 6th position. In between this journey of losing weight and participating in a bodybuilding championship, Kiran Dembla added another feather to her hat which is of a fitness trainer. After she got acquainted with the intricacies of physical training at the gym, she decided to open her own gym which is currently thronged by a lot of renowned celebrities who swear by her expertise in keeping their body in shape.
After recuperating from her physical ailment, Kiran Dembla had lots of challenges thrown her way by life, all of which she packed in a punch and retaliated back. Usually, people feel that their life is over when any deadly ailment takes away a crucial period and confidence from their life, but Kiran Dembla is an exception here, as she turned this curse into a blessing and discovered her passion for bodybuilding. Not only did she challenge the existing patriarchal cobwebs and brutal sexism in Indian society but also proved that fate doesn’t always make devices to put you down. There are still some crevices leading to a glimpse of hope and positivity, and all you need to do is find them out. It took Kiran Dembla a lethal physical problem to figure out her true calling in life, but once she embraced it and decided to brave the odds, life had already crowned her as the winner, and now she stands flexing her muscles, intimidating her haters and inspiring the youth.
