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US Athletes on Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues

By Discovery Contributor

Now a college coach, when she was young girl, Misty Hyman first thought being athletic would be a way for her to feel more attractive, more confident. She believed that looking powerful and strong would make her beautiful. Then she hit her teenage years. “I started to have a sense of what I looked like to other people, and that became an important part. It was confusing to determine what’s best for my body in terms of my performance and, ‘Hey, I like getting this attention,’” Hyman told USA Today.

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