Gracie Gold: Olympic Figure Skater On Overcoming An Eating Disorder, Depression, & Her Return To The Ice

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Gracie Gold's story is one of the most powerful stories in figure skating. After winning the bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympic games and being regarded as America’s golden girl, Gracie hit rock bottom spiraling into a painful battle with an eating disorder, and depression. At this point in her life, Gracie did not think she would ever return to skating. Gracie takes us through her journey with mental health and how she ultimately recovered, which led her to speak out about her struggles and find her way back on the ice and hopefully to the next Olympic games. Gracie was most recently featured in Michael Phelps’ powerful documentary, “The Weight of Gold,” which features a variety of olympians who have struggled with mental health. Gracie most famously said, "America loves three stories: America loves a comeback story, America loves an underdog story, and America loves the fall of a hero. I am all three.”

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0:36.2	If I had a really bad skating day, but I felt skeletal, I would still put that over a
0:45.6	day where I skated well, but I felt fat.
0:50.1	And that's when it became, with that slip, was a really big issue because although you
0:57.6	do need to look a certain way in skating, you have to skate.
1:28.4	Welcome back to RealPod.
1:31.1	I am feeling like this is a full circle moment in my life right now, you guys, because about
1:35.9	four years ago, after I'd opened up about my struggles with disorder-deeding and body
1:40.2	image as a female athlete, my mom, who I had confided in, ripped out a piece of paper
1:45.2	from a magazine and gave it to me.
1:47.2	And it was an article about an Olympic figure skater named Gracie Gold, who had come forward
1:52.0	about her struggle with an eating disorder.
1:54.2	I remember looking at the photograph of her, reading it, thinking, wow, first of all,
1:59.9	she's beautiful, she's an Olympian, and she battled in eating disorder.
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