Zehra Allibhai

ABOUT ZEHRA ALLIBHAI

Canadian fitness instructor and kinesiologist known for being one of the first fitness influencers to wear a hijab. She launched a website called The FitNest, featuring workout routines, recipes and lifestyle content. She has amassed more than 700,000 followers on her zallibhai Instagram account.

As a teenager, she excelled on school track-and-field and basketball teams. She completed an honors degree in kinesiology.

She started her business out of the basement of her Toronto home. She also taught boot camp and seniors' classes at her local mosque. In August 2021, she was profiled by Elle Canada.

She has two children. Her parents moved to Canada in the early 1970s. Her father was a physical education teacher in East Africa.

She was inspired by Ibtihaj Muhammad , the first U.S. Olympian to compete while wearing a hijab.