CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

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Chalked Up is a coming of age story that is about my early life spent as a gymnast. I hope you'll find it has relevance beyond athletics. It’s intended to be the story of one child – me – not an exposé about the sport. It touches on broader issues than gymnastics: athletes who are willing to do anything to be the very best, a culture in which second place means nothing because only winning matters, mother daughter relationships, eating disorders, coming into one's own. Ultimately, it is for anyone who has ever felt they weren’t good enough, ached to be better than they are, and has grown up to accept the person they were meant to be.

I hope you enjoy the book. As well as some thoughts and musings and a couple of short films I’m sharing here.

Thanks,

Jen Sey