Shawn Johnson East
Shawn Johnson East is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist, as well as the 2007 all-around World Champion and a five time Pan American Games gold medalist. She announced her retirement from gymnastics in 2012.
However, it seems that even gold medalists can suffer from eating disorders at some point in their lives. Shawn said that because of her strong and muscular gymnast body, she felt like people always wanted her to look skinnier and thinner, so when she was 12 years old, she started to eat only 700 calories a day, completely excluding carbohydrates. She had slowly begun to develop anorexia, and her body was getting weaker and weaker, but fortunately, she managed to recover.
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