Here's an interesting clip from 1974. Trixi Schuba, the 1972 Olympic Champion who won all of her titles because of her perfect figures (and not her free skating), told a story of how she was forced to lose 25 or 30 pounds while she was touring with Holiday On Ice, in order to look more glamorous in the shows. She was put on a strict diet of just 500 calories a day (!) while she was on tour. Here she is performing, absolutely unrecognizable from her competitive days:
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Here's an interesting clip from 1974. Trixi Schuba, the 1972 Olympic Champion who won all of her titles because of her perfect figures (and not her free skating), told a story of how she was forced to lose 25 or 30 pounds while she was touring with Holiday On Ice, in order to look more glamorous in the shows. She was put on a strict diet of just 500 calories a day (!) while she was on tour. Here she is performing, absolutely unrecognizable from her competitive days:
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Oddly enough (and perhaps disturbingly), Trixi defended the forced diet, saying that she loved eating cakes and pastries too much. But 500 calories a day... geez.
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Where did you work that they had the power to refuse you food and drink?
Because we are all weak and want to protect our own.
Ya think?
Yes, which is why I didn't reply to them quoting me with any seriousness.
And? Does my post require your involvement in some way that is not immediately apparent to me?
While I was in college in Hungary, I worked as a prostitute to cover my tuition and living expenses. We had to be in tip-top shape so I ate healthy, exercised, did my Kegels and worked hard.
Really? Most of the prostitutes I see are drug addicts and look it. I do not, however, doubt for a second that their work is hard.
It's something someone experiencing a dangerous mental illness says.That sounds like something that Kamila Valieva might have said.
My 13-year-old daughter is super thin and her knees and bones don't protrude. This isn't normal. This is such a sad article. I feel so sorry for Evgenia.
It's extremely upsetting. 'I’m naturally built this way — what I’d call ‘innate anorexic thinness.’ Followed by her outlining how extreme her diet was and is in order to "get down to bone".
It's horrifying.
This - a lot of people don't understand that food restriction/extreme dieting can in themselves cause anorexia. I'll also add that many people with eating disorders don't necessarily "look" like they have them.
No one knew. She is a favorite among many of us. It hurts because she is a warm, sweet person and she suffered. No doubt about that. I happen to love a lot of skaters who won silver medals. I think this Silver Queen paid dearly for hers.
I hadn't put on a pair of skates in decades and hadn't paid any attention to the sport for as long as that, but it was my better half asking if I'd seen a young skater named Medvedeva who he'd happened on while flipping sports channels. I watched and was amazed at how easily and freely she skated, and how much (to me) she seemed to make skating look like the most enjoyable thing one could ever do when she was performing. I could be wrong, but I don't think she was "faking" it. I think that she was in love with the feeling of skating, not just with winning, and it came through in every performance. Watching some videos of her skating made me pine for skating again. Those performances were what brought my aged self back to the ice. It's so upsetting to realize how deeply she was suffering those years.
The one thing I hate is the short careers of most Russian female skaters now. Liza was an exception. I hope a good skater, like Frolova, who has artistry but no quad, has a shot in their system. I loved her sp.
