Fateme Hamami Nasrabadi is a 28-year-old Iranian artist who paints using two toes on her right foot. Some time ago she painted portraits of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and received a personal promise from the Portuguese football star.
Despite being paralyzed by 85 percent, Fateme Hamami Nasrabadi found the strength to pursue her ambition of becoming an artist. Since an early age she demonstrated a talent for drawing and by the age of 16 she took up painting and drawing professionally.
Fateme has already held many exhibitions of her artwork around Tehran, although her dream is to own her own art gallery and be world famous.
She is also an ardent football fan and her interest in the game prompted her to draw portraits of the two famous football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
"My interest in football made me draw portraits of famous world football players, including Ronaldo and Messi. My friends helped me send a photo of the portraits to La Liga. La Liga appreciated this and sent me a Real T-shirt,” Fateme told Sputnik in an interview.
— LaLiga (@LaLigaEN) October 26, 2017
Thank you, Fateme! 🇮🇷 pic.twitter.com/5YhZHtnthO
According to Fateme, Cristiano Ronaldo said he would personally visit her and see her work if he comes to Iran.
The artist dreams big and wants to become famous around the world. "I want to become so famous that everyone who comes to Iran comes to me and see my work,” Fateme said.
