I spoke with another former gymnast who's mending the body-shaming culture in the sport we both grew up with.
). Cain was conditioned to shed pounds at a dangerous rate because it would make her"faster," and she, too, was weighed in front of her peers.
As McNally told me,"I really like to think that I'm part of a movement where we're changing, shifting completely, the whole result of the sport and focusing more on being positive and educating girls." But the real people struggling, she noted, are"people like me and you." We, as McNally explained, experience the residual effects later in life where it"manifests in eating disorders and people not loving themselves just because of a stupid comment.
McNally and I spent some time talking about how the focus on appearance and weight — and lack of education on healthy habits and nutrition — caused us to have missed opportunities in our gymnastics careers."I really would have been good at the sport, but nobody ever taught me balance," she said. Still, she was able to use the struggles she faced for a purpose greater than her own.
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