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Posted: 2024-05-22 21:38:02

Bec Rawlings describes her start in mixed martial arts as bittersweet.

While she admits it led her away from what she describes as a "rough childhood", she was also introduced to the sport by her former husband.

She is now divorced from him and claims he physically abused her during their marriage and also threatened to harm her children.

A woman with lots of tattoos plants her hands on her hips and stars fiercely down the barrel of the camera.

Bec started her mixed martial arts journey in 2010.(Supplied: David Fell)

Ms Rawlings's film, Fight to Live, is now showing in cinemas and has just screened in her hometown of Launceston.

The film documents her journey as a domestic violence survivor, while also looking at the daily challenges of becoming a professional fighter.

Turning her life around

A poster for a film has a photograph of a heavily tattooed woman crossing her arms, with the title 'Fight to Live' in capitals.

Fight to Live screened at Launceston's Star Theatre.(Supplied)

It begins with a look into Bec Rawlings's early life in Launceston, catching up with her close family, who still live there.

There is a comment from Bec Rawlings's mother Mary Rawlings near the start of the film, as she sits at her kitchen table and looks back on her daughter's early life.

"She was a cheeky little thing," she says. "She liked to be boyish and wouldn't have her hair done and wore funny things.

"You just looked at her and thought, 'She's going to be trouble.'"

A few minutes further in, Rawlings's sister Jacqui has an even more blunt appraisal of her younger sister.

"If she'd kept going along the lines she was going, she would have ended up in jail."

The story inside the story

As the film progresses, we soon see Rawlings's fighting prowess and her professional journey coming to the fore.

But the main message of Fight to Live remains the issue of domestic violence, and how it can affect anyone.

"The documentary really touches on the emotional and the physical side of domestic violence," she told ABC Radio Northern Tasmania Drive.

"It can happen to anyone … domestic violence doesn't discriminate.

A woman and two young boys are photographed in a gymnasium. One of the boys has jumped into the woman's arms.

Bec Rawlings is mother to Zake (left) and Enson.(Supplied: David Fell)

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