The Best Iranian Female Bodybuilder

  Mona Poursaleh was born in Tehran to a family of athletes and now lives in Canada. Her father was a gymnast and her brother a bodybuilder. From childhood she swam, practiced Kung Fu, and, later, she became a lifeguard. Her father hired a Norwegian coach to train her to become a lifeguard, but she developed an interest in bodybuilding and so began lifting weights.