One Of My Mom's Best

As An Athlete You're Taught To Be Selfish. When I'm Training, It's Usually All About Me.

The Reaction Has Been Amazing Because There Is No Woman That Could Look At These Covers And Not Be Like, 'that's What I Could Look Like,' Or, 'i Pretty Much Already Look Like One Of These Chicks.' It Really Makes Beauty Seem So Much More Attainable To People.

There Have Been Times In My Adolescence Where I Gave Up. I Was Like, 'i'm Just Never Going To Be Pretty. I'm Never Going To Be Like One Of Those People On The Front Of Magazines.' It Always Seemed Really Strange To Me That The Projection Of How People Are In Advertisements Looked Nothing Like The People Who Were Actually Buying Them. You Know What I Mean? I Never Understood That Mismatch, And Now I Really Start To See That The People You See In The Media Are A Lot More Like People Actually Are.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Really Sets The Social Standard For What People Expect The Perfect Woman's Body To Look Like, And A Lot Of Those Bodies Usually Look The Same.

I Don't Want Little Girls To Have The Same Ambitions As Me. But I Want Them To Know That It's Okay To Be Ambitious.