{"id":260727,"date":"2026-01-31T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260727\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:56:08","slug":"how-this-indian-mother-lost-24kg-in-7-months-and-became-a-bodybuilding-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260727\/","title":{"rendered":"How this Indian mother lost 24kg in 7 months and became a bodybuilding DJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">From a shy stay-at-home wife and mother to a world-stage bodybuilder, celebrity trainer, mountaineer, DJ and photographer, Kiran Dembla\u2019s transformation is a reminder that life is what we make it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her journey shows there is no age limit to starting life\u2019s greatest adventures and is captured in her 2024 biography, Fitness Machine: The Extraordinary Life of Kiran Dembla.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dembla grew up in Agra, India, in a middle-class family. She had a passion for music, performing on stage and earning a master\u2019s degree in Indian classical music. At 23, she got married and soon had two children, daughter Priyanka and son Kshitij.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAfter marriage, my life was confined to the four walls of my house,\u201d Dembla recalls. \u201cEvery day, I\u2019d wake up, clean and cook. Ten monotonous years went by. I felt like I wasn\u2019t doing anything I loved. I was tired of asking my husband for money for every little thing. I began asking myself, \u2018What if I were financially independent? What did I want from life?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The cover of Kiran Dembla\u2019s 2024 biography. Photo: Amazon\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/754de6cb-e855-4a7e-b871-87212534ce19_8eced599.jpg\" title=\"The cover of Kiran Dembla\u2019s 2024 biography. Photo: Amazon\"\/>The cover of Kiran Dembla\u2019s 2024 biography. Photo: Amazon<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She began teaching music to children from home, but that was not enough. The stress and unhappiness manifested physically. At the age of 33, she weighed 76kg (168 pounds) \u2013 24kg more than when she got married. Then she began having excruciating headaches.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOn some days, I felt as though my head would explode,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a shy stay-at-home wife and mother to a world-stage bodybuilder, celebrity trainer, mountaineer, DJ and photographer, Kiran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[86836,4595,44273,149668,149669,565,134,46925,9073,14417,149666,149667,149664,111,139,69,6494,149665,118747,10309,149670],"class_list":{"0":"post-260727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-anushka-shetty","9":"tag-bodybuilding","10":"tag-budapest","11":"tag-dinesh-kumar","12":"tag-everest-base-camp","13":"tag-fitness","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-how-to-age-well","16":"tag-how-to-lose-weight","17":"tag-hyderabad","18":"tag-indian-body-builders-foundation","19":"tag-international-bodybuilding-competition","20":"tag-kiran-dembla","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-strength-training","25":"tag-sweatzone","26":"tag-taapsee-pannu","27":"tag-tamannaah-bhatia","28":"tag-wbpf-world-bodybuilding-and-physique-sports-championships"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}