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I felt like my thighs were the biggest thing on earth and

I instead of seeing my body it's like the vessel that's helping me perform on the

stock of field. I saw it as like, oh I'm so heavy I'm just adding the other thing and it's just like

I avoided wearing jeans because I really felt like I it amplified my thighs you know

stuff like that where I'm like looking back and wishing I didn't say such mean things to myself.

It's crazy when you look back it's like why did I focus so much on this?

Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former Dio and athlete

and mental health and body image advocate. Everyone stay I'll be bringing you awesome guests,

weekly inspiration and the realest conversations around everything and anything. Now let's get real.

Welcome back to RealPod everybody. I hope you're doing lovely. I am eager to share today's

conversation with all of you because I really believe it can go a long way. If I were able to

listen to this conversation back when I was playing volleyball at USC or my freshman year as a

student athlete even in high school it really would have gone a long way because at the time

and probably similar to how some of you might be feeling I thought I was the only one going through

it. I thought I must be the only one who has body image issues. I must be the only one whose

self-conscious in my uniform. I must be the only one who's really anxious for practice or scared

to ask for help with my mental health issues but really everyone is experiencing their own struggle

in some way and you're not the only one. And in today's conversation we're going to dive into a

variety of problems that female athletes face. To talk about these problems we have the one and

only soccer girl probs squad in the house today. I'm so excited. Alana, Shannon and Carly are all

here. Many of you know them as the lady ballers you all are lady ballers and they have found it the

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