 She is also the only IFBB athlete to have competed in both the Inaugural Figure Olympia in 2003 and the Inaugural Bikini Olympia in 2010.Al-Sabah was born in Beirut, Lebanon; her mother is of Turkish and Syrian origin, while her father is Kuwaiti, Turkish and East African origin.She was born as a member of the Al-Sabah family; she is close lineage because her grandfather was the son of Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait from 1917 to 1921.