A day in the life of social media star in Dubai Farhana Bodi

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00:00Good evening, this is Manjusha from Gulf News and we at Gulf News have launched a very exciting series

00:06It's called a day in the life of there are many people that we are often very

00:10Inspired by influenced by but you don't know what the day is like and often you want to take a leaf out of it

00:16So today I have a very special guest with me

00:19Her name is Farhana Bodhi and she's got more than 1.3 million

00:25Followers so Farhana. It's amazing

00:30So

00:33How I start my day in the morning is I

00:36Definitely have the first thing I do is I wake up to my beautiful son

00:41He's next to me and I play with him

00:43I put the Quran on in the house because I love praying and not a lot of people know this about me

00:50But I'm quite into

00:53You know, like I'm into meditation

00:55Into praying I love to balance my life out and I want my son

01:00To grow up with the similar similar morals and values that I grew up with so I play the Quran for him every day

01:07So he knows in the morning when we wake up

01:09The first thing mom plays is the Quran time. Yes, if I'm

01:14I'm not too tired

01:15I go to the gym or I I sleep a little bit longer if I don't have any

01:21Work to do that day and then I go to the Pilates I go to gym

01:24But before that I have my detox I detox and my detox water my green juice

01:29So the first thing I intake in my body is a ginger shot

01:33So that's what I have in the morning chia seeds water. So a lot of like healthy

01:39Yeah for an immunity boost because I do have a lot of sinus issues and when I travel I tend to get

01:44sick because of the weather changes so I always

01:47you know pump myself up with lots of vitamin C's and ginger and you know to keep me going and

01:54green juices for healthy skin and then I go to my Pilates or I go to the gym I work out and

02:01Then I have my lunch and I get ready. I

02:05Dress up I go for my meetings. I play with Aiden if I'm not doing any meetings

02:09Sometimes I try to work mostly from home. That's what I love about my job. It's so flexible

02:14I can be anywhere in the world and it can work right?

02:16So I'm most of the time at home because I do travel a lot

02:19So when I'm in Dubai, I want to spend time at home with Aiden or go to the Dubai mall

02:24I send him to Ali Ali. I take him to you know theme parks

02:27I try to balance my life because then I'm a single mom. I have to work at the same time

02:32I have a son who needs me. So I balance it out. I completely balance my life out

02:37Which is so important to have a good balance. So when I'm at home Aiden is a very very sweet boy

02:44He doesn't trouble me much

02:46Yeah, he is amazing and like he knows like if I'm on my

02:50Zoom calls or if I'm like, I'm always I'm all the time on the zoom calls, you know, because I work, you know

02:57It'll work with brands globally, right? So I'm always working on zoom calls, but it's so nice because I manage everything from home

03:03I love dressing up not for anyone but myself like I've been so passionate about

03:10Fashion beauty lifestyle since I was a baby

03:13Like I used to take my mom's makeup and just doll myself up every single day

03:19There would be like competitions in school like, you know for modeling fashion shows

03:24I'd be the first one to enter because I'm so passionate about it. Like I love dressing up and I feel like

03:32Being on social media. I also have a responsibility

03:34I'm inspiring so many girls out there, especially the young girls out there

03:39They get inspired by the way I dress by the way, I do my makeup and I'm so passionate about it

03:44So I do take care of myself on a daily basis. I

03:48work out I

03:51Go to the salon almost every day. I don't do my hair myself. I'm lucky that the hair salons are on the corners

03:56I literally go like every day and

03:59Yeah, I just love dressing up. I love taking care of myself

04:03You know, I work on a very very healthy balanced clean diet so that my skin looks good and

04:10I'm fat enough, you know, I'm however very lucky because the designers I work with they custom-make for me

04:17But still, you know, you want to look good you want to you know, have good photos on the red carpet

04:22So I go on a very strict diet. There's times when I do juicing

04:25So I do juicing with boiled eggs and almonds throughout the day and soups

04:29So it's very strict because you're not eating a lot of carbs and then you get very tired, you know

04:34You're low on energy

04:35But obviously I pump my vitamin C's and then you give up your body gives up after a few days and then you have to eat

04:40So now the diet I have it's from eat clean

04:44It's a platform that provides really really good clean food, but when I'm on my holidays, I can't die

04:51I go crazy. I have gelato like I was in Capri and I was in Mykonos. I was having ice cream every single day

04:57So Dubai for me is like my therapy. So I come back to Dubai

05:00I'm on the you know diet mode and I'm working out I walk every day from Dubai

05:05So live very close to Dubai mall. So I'm back and forth every day like at least twice a day

05:10I remember last year I was going to Cannes Film Festival

05:12But before that I was in Turkey and Turkey the food was amazing

05:15I gained like three four kilos just by eating the food in Turkey

05:18So I remember I was 63 kilos and then I had less than a month to lose it and I was like, dr

05:24I gotta lose it and she's like you can but you're gonna have to do all of this strict diet. Nothing

05:29No, sir. I'd never did any surgery. I don't do any fillers. I do nothing. I do only non-invasive

05:34I do have a very good metabolism because I do eat a lot

05:36Trust me when I go for all these reviews are munching everything like I order so much and it was like

05:42But yeah, I'm a good eater. I love to go to parties

05:46But like I said, like I love I love dancing

05:50But without having to drink and stuff like that

05:52We're Gujaratis originally from Surat, but I was brought up in South Africa. So I lived most of my life in South Africa

05:58Yeah, so I grew up in South Africa. There's a lot of Indians in South Africa mom and dad were brought up in a place

06:05called Burma Rangoon and

06:08so yeah, and but India is very close to my heart because I'm Indian and I'm very proud to say I'm Indian whenever anyone

06:15Asks me but hang on you're from South Africa. I'm like, yes, but my origin is Indian and I'm super proud of it

06:20I think it's a beautiful culture

06:23Beautiful country and I'm super proud of it to be honest. I don't really have a therapist that I talked to

06:29Like I said like for me on social media

06:33I do have trollers but not a lot like I'm I'm those lucky few that don't get trolled so much

06:38but you never know in the future, but I'm honestly like I'm okay with it because

06:43When you're in the public are you gonna have people either they love you or they hate you, right?

06:47So you're gonna accept both

06:49You know what?

06:49I mean and for those who have anything negative to say to me, of course, there are times it gets to me

06:55but then

06:56I'm a very firm believer in the universe and positive energy. So I always meditate I pray and I remove that

07:04So what I do to de-stress is I love listening to Bollywood romantic music. I don't know

07:09It just takes me on another trip. I'm I like to I'm with I'm a big dreamer

07:13I like to manifest and honestly I go for my walks. I just listen to my music. I love my life

07:19I love my job. Honestly, I met someone recently

07:23From Instagram and I was like listen guys

07:26I'm so grateful for this platform because as a content creator, this is a dream job

07:32I love traveling and I get to travel and stay in the most luxurious hotels in the world and let me tell you something

07:38I'm not like oh, whatever. I'm so grateful and I'm like living it up, but I'm extremely grateful and I

07:47respect

07:48Everything like around me respect the people who give me this opportunities and I'm just super grateful for this life

07:55And I'm so grateful and thankful to Allah for everything. So not a lot of people know this about me

08:01But I don't I'm a very emotional person

08:04I'm extremely emotional and I went through a really really very very bad heartbreak

08:12divorce I

08:14Ended a marriage we were together for almost 16 years

08:18He was my the one and only love I had and imagine after 16 years

08:24you just

08:26You just call it off. It it it was so tough. I went through a lot of anxiety a lot of pain

08:33I wasn't myself. I just started

08:36You know becoming more like I like basically still going through a healing process, but I'm I'm healed

08:43But still it takes time, right? I can say like from last year November onwards

08:48I just started healing and but before that I was in a very bad state

08:51But I wasn't showing it because of my son. I had to really like

08:55Yeah, because I need to be a strong for him. I didn't want him to see me weak

09:00I do write on my thoughts. I do write down what I want in my life. I manifest I'm into manifestation

09:06I'm like all the time manifesting what I want in my life

09:09I put it out in the universe and the universe always finds a way back

09:15I don't always get what I want. So I feel that that's the power of the universe power of manifestation

09:22I read the secret every day. It's like, you know, the daily affirmations the secret. Oh my god

09:27It really helps me and I love you know on my Instagram feed. There's always like these motivational codes

09:32I love reading and I think it's uplifting and everything helps me

09:36But also, you know, I have a very strong support system. My family is very, you know, motivating the uplifting

09:43They they always supporting me even through my breakups. Like I'm not from a typical

09:48You know Indian family where they're like, no, no, no, don't get divorced. No. No. No, you have to keep the marriage

09:52My mom was like, you know what? I think you're better off without him

09:55My mom actually tells me you're better off without him

09:57So I think it's the right thing you're doing because she's seen what I went through in my marriage

10:01She went she's seen the ups and downs and she's like listen, I think you're better off and my mom's super supportive

10:07I don't have a I don't have a father. My dad passed away a few years ago

10:11But my mom is extremely supportive my family supportive and I think the society we're living in they were supportive

10:18My fans are supportive. My friends are supportive

10:20So I think everyone helped me in this journey and I'm so grateful for that

10:24I do have a lot of plans for the future. Of course, you know, I want to create a brand myself

10:29I want to create something for Aiden. I do have a lot of plans out there, but you know slowly slowly

10:35I'm working on everything but

10:38You know because I went through so much

10:39I just wanted to heal myself first because I cannot focus on everything at once, you know

10:44So right now I'm going through that process and I've got a lot of few plans for the rest of the year

10:50You'll see something really big

10:52Hopefully by November

10:54Yeah, we cannot talk about it, but something big is coming up and it's gonna be really

11:00good for me and hopefully that will open up new doors and big doors for me as well and

11:05I think by next year, we'll be launching something firstly. I want to say that the content creators

11:12We content creators are the future

11:15Because the world want to see the real people

11:20Creating content they believe in us. We inspire them. I have so many of my friends who are normal

11:27Girls from normal families who have become super successful

11:31because the audience want to see this they want to see the real people killing it in the industry and

11:38Not like I'm against obviously the industry people. I think they're doing a brilliant job

11:44They'd good but at what they're doing, but for instance

11:47The content creators are I

11:50Feel they are the superstars at the moment

11:52I've achieved so much in the last few years and so much of respect from the society from the social media

11:59And I'm super proud of myself. And like I said like for all the content creators bravo guys

12:05You guys have done it

12:07We have done it and we're killing it on social media and we're taking over the world and we're taking over the digital

12:14Platform and this is the future

12:17You

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