The Real-Life 'Popeye': Meet Man With the Largest Biceps in the World [Photos & Video]

The real-life 'Popeye' who has the world's biggest biceps... but is allergic to spinach His world record-breaking biceps have earned him the nickname 'the real-life Popeye' - but giant bodybuilder Moustafa Ismail is actually allergic to spinach.

Unlike the famous cartoon sailor, who gets his strength from the iron-rich plant, 'Big Mo' cannot stand the greenery. The 24-year-old Egyptian, whose 31-inch biceps measure the same as a man's waist, says spinach is to him what kryptonite is to Superman.

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Mr Ismail, who entered the Guinness World Book of Records last year as the man with the world's largest biceps, added: 'I like chicken and beef - anything but spinach.'

The bodybuilder is the toast of his hometown Alexandria, which he left to move to America in 2007 to find better gym equipment.

He said he was fat as a child growing up in the Middle East but had returned home as 'the Hulk'.
Mr Ismail, who lives with his wife Carolina, 30, in the U.S., said: 'I'm the first Egyptian in the Guinness book. In Egypt they had a celebration for me and my family - they were so proud.'

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