12-year-old Ukrainian girl Varya Akulova is capable of lifting up to 350 kg, while she herself weighs only 40 kg.

This youngster has tremendous will-power, translucent body and thread-like tendons. Her muscles are barely visible. It is quite difficult to grow any on day-to-day spaghetti diet. Thing is, there is nothing else for her to eat. The reason is simple: lack of money. Varya strongly believes that one day she will definitely become an Olympic champion.

Ms. Akulova is the strongest girl on the planet. This fact has already been confirmed twice by Guinness Book of World Records. She lives in the Ukrainian miner town of Krivoy Rog. Life appears to be quite gloomy for the entire Akulova family. The entire Akulova's family used to inhabit an 8-meter room in a dormitory designated especially for miners. A 5-meter storage room was her training premises

For her 10th birthday,Varya she managed to get a job at a circus with her mother and father in a family acrobatic act.

Although she did indeed prove to be the strongest there, due to the fact that she was a minor, her wage was less than $10 per performance. Finally, all the efforts, sleepless nights and hunger all paid up. After about six months, they had enough money to buy a two-room apartment.

Varya's dad and coach Yuri Akulov says he has always known his daughter will be athlete. His well-educated wife Larisa. It did not take Larisa long to adopt Yura's lifestyle. Several weeks into their serious relationship she began lifting weights. Varya loves her parents and weightlifting. She works out daily.(We have a system without a system, meaning everything is up to you. If you feel like it, you go and workout; if you don't feel like it, you simply sleep, read or something. Such system is based on a Hercules' genome. According to father Yuri, he along with his daughter possesses certain gene that is missing in most people.

Despite the daily workouts, Varya is a top student in her class. Currently, she is in 7th grade. She learnt to read at 3.

Today, the girl also attends local sports school. This will enable her to acquire professional sport education as well.

"I do not take steroids; I only take multi vitamins, " Varya says, "I wish I could be big, really big: 190 cm tall and weigh more than 100 kg, like my dad."