Breaking Her Silence: D1 Gymnast Gracie Kramer on Overcoming an Eating Disorder & Learning To Love Herself Fully
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4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Gracie Kramer, former D1 UCLA gymnast and national champion who famously scored a perfect 10 her senior year, joins Victoria to share what was really going on behind the scenes. For the first time publicly, Gracie bravely opens up about her eating disorder and the silent struggles that came with the pressure to be perfect. She reveals what it was like to perform in a leotard on her worst body image days, the mental toll of being a college athlete, and how she worked to unlearn harmful habits and rebuild a healthy relationship with food, her body, and herself. Gracie and Victoria also get candid about navigating beauty standards as content creators, the pressure to have the “Instagram face,” and why they’ve chosen to opt out in order to show up authentically. If you’ve ever struggled with food, body image, or are craving more safe spaces for individuality and vulnerability, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. |
| 0:19.3 | Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, |
| 0:22.0 | and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content |
| 0:27.5 | that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just |
| 0:31.8 | unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RealPod. I'm so excited that you are tuning in to today's |
| 0:50.8 | episode because this is the body image self-love eating disorder recovery |
| 0:56.9 | episode that I think we've been needing for a while. It's been a bit since a guest has come |
| 1:03.6 | on and really opened up in a very emotional, vulnerable, and relatable way to talk about |
| 1:10.7 | their experiences with body image |
| 1:13.5 | issues and disordered eating. And this episode was just like, honestly, one of my favorites |
| 1:18.7 | that I've ever hosted about that topic. And one of the reasons is that today's episode is the |
| 1:24.8 | very first time that our guest, Gracie Kramer, has publicly told her entire story. |
| 1:31.4 | For those of you who don't know, Gracie Kramer, she is a former UCLA gymnast. |
| 1:37.0 | She won a national championship there. |
| 1:39.5 | She competed on the UCLA gymnastics team from 2016 to 2020. |
| 1:43.7 | And famously, she scored a perfect 10 on her floor routine, her senior year. |
| 1:48.6 | So if you also want to look that up on YouTube, type in Gracie Kramer Perfect 10. |
| 1:51.9 | You'll see the video. |
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