Heavy makeup, carefully selected outfits, toned muscles - it sounds like a description fit for a beauty pagent, but one photographer uses precisely that backdrop to provide a glimpse into the very colorful lives of female bodybuilders - including a five-year-old who trains up to six days a week. Los Angeles-based photogra 's Barbella collection shuns traditional forms of feminine beauty and instead steers her gaze on muscular forms only a few women can achieve.'Bodybuilders are canvases that refute the self-sabotaging rhetoric that women are inherently fragile or helpless,' Biel said in a . 'Feminine nature begins with pain. Women are born with pain built in. The act of female bodybuilding is an act of defiance.'
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