Ahead of ChilesJordan's appearance on Peace of Mind with Taraji with tarajiphenson and Traciejadej, the gymnast speaks with POPSUGAR about verbal abuse in the sport.
of her old coach:"She called me fat, she said I looked like a doughnut, to the littlest things of people asking me, 'Oh, you're eating this today?' And it's like, 'Well, I'm not eating because you just triggered my brain.'", added that it took a"huge toll" on her mental health to the point where she used to leave notes on her kitchen counter saying she planned to quit gymnastics.
Chiles further spoke with POPSUGAR, noting that a woman coach she had from ages 7 through 16 would body-shame her."You're turning into a woman at that point, so your body's changing, but even prior to that, it got to points where I would be looking so skinny . . . I was fit, I was young . . . she would still be like, 'Oh, you look like a doughnut' or 'a sack of potatoes' out of the blue.
Chiles said she was afraid her coach would catch her eating pizza, for instance,"and it haunted me throughout my whole gymnastics career and lifetime." She had to keep track of her weight, and"if I wasn't under 110 [pounds] she called me fat," Chiles shared."And keep in mind, I'm already tiny and I'm built, so a lot of the muscle mass that I have, that's where all of my weight comes from.
The gymnast added,"Ever since then, I've never stepped on a scale. I hate stepping on scales because it's just awful." It took her a while to mend her relationship with food, something that she admits she struggles with to this day — things will continue to trigger her, and she'll body-shame herself.
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