![]() ![]() A powerful portrait of intensity and drive, eating disorders and stage parents, abusive coaches and manipulative businessmen, denial and the seduction of success, it is the story of a young girl whose dreams would become eclipsed by the adults around her. In Chalked Up Sey reveals the tarnish behind her gold medals. And the adults in her life refused to notice her downward spiral. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America’s elite,competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics’ luminaries as Mary Lou Retton.īut as she set her sights higher and higher-the senior national team, the World Championships, the 1988 Olympics-Sey began to change, putting her needs, her health, and her well-being aside in the name of winning. ![]() National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed herįanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. ![]()
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