When gymnast Katelyn Ohashi was 14 years old, people began to body shame her, so she started going on a strict diet, overexercised, and vomited up food at parties.
The 22-year-old UCLA alum, who went viral for her floor routine in Jan. 2019, is one of the's 11th Annual BODY Issue. Katelyn, who proudly posed naked for her cover story, also wrote an essay in which she candidly discussed overcoming eating disorders and body shaming. In her piece for the magazine, Katelyn took readers back to the early days of her gymnastics career, when she was just 3.
Over time, however, competing grew less fun for Katelyn, who became an elite gymnast at the age of 12."The Olympics was the ultimate goal, but it was never my goal," Katelyn shared. "It was put in front of me because of my talent, and my coaches kept pushing me toward it. I felt like I couldn't give up because my family had made so many sacrifices. I became miserable. My voice was so suppressed. I still loved the sport, but the joy was diminished.
] at UCLA," Katelyn wrote."I started taking ownership of my path. I told her I didn't want to do the Olympics anymore. I changed my path to college gymnastics and knew I wanted to go to UCLA. That's what brought me back." "We had nutritionists and trainers who worked with us on our bodies, which helped me realize why it's so important to fuel it correctly," she explained. "It created a better environment for me to accept my body and not be super weird about eating. I don't prevent myself from eating anything. Once you release your mind, your body can relax and do what it's supposed to do.
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