An Eating Disorder Derailed Her Dream as a Teen. She's Going For the Gold at 50.
Jackie Munzel was on the Olympic path, but quit to treat the serious eating disorder she developed while trying to conform to the sport's narrow ideals of beauty. Thirty-something years later and a conversation with her grown daughter later, she decided to follow up on her skating dreams. She shifted to speed skating, where the emphasis is on how fast you can move, not what you look like. Now she's up for every event in the upcoming games.
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