Massiel Arias
Massiel Arias
Massiel Arias exercising
Massiel Arias is a celebrated fitness trainer, activist and a motivator. She was formerly known by name Mankofot. She is a certified health coach and personal trainer and a popular Instagram celebrity with more than 2.2 million Instagram followers.
Early Years
Massiel was born in the Dominican Republic on November 23, 1988. She moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of thirteen to find employment and begin a new life. When she moved to the United States, she was not able to speak English which made up for a rocky start. She had a relationship that didn't work out and to cope with the depression, she went to gym and began her career from over there. [1]
Career
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Massiel is also an entrepreneur, a business owner and a professional model.
She has been featured by WorldStar HipHop, Huffington Post and Cosmopolitan.
She has her own blog on Latina.com where she writes different recipes.
Family Life
She became US Citizen at the age of fourteen.
She got engaged in 2015.
She has a daughter Indira Sarai in 2017.
“I had a lot of self-image issues, I feel that’s a way of disrespecting yourself, because you should be your own person, you should love yourself, and do things that you want to do, because you want to do them not because a magazine is telling you how to look.
Before I started training.
I used to look at female body builders and be like, ‘Oh my god, she looks manly — it’s too much.’ But now I realize you can be muscular and be feminine, and this look is a part of an acquired palate that a lot of people don’t have.
Even though muscular women might not have a body type that appeals to everyone, they’re still women.”