Swimming legend
Franziska van Almsick still fights with eating disorder today
Franziska van Almsick was Celebrated for their successes and revealed for their failures. The athlete fell ill with an eating disorder. She has not overcome it to this day.
Franziska van Almsick also fights 21 years after the end of their swimming career With your eating disorder. “When I come in situations today in which I amstall, I may start eating less or thinking about what I eat,” said the 47-year-old in the magazine “Gala”. “Back then I got into this eating disorder because I felt that I no longer have my life under control myself.”
Franziska van Almsick: Your eating disorder is a warning signal
Van Almsick won silver over 200 meters of freestyle at the 1992 Olympics in 1992-the first of a total of ten Olympic medals. It became one of the first female sports idoles of the time of reunification. At the age of 26 she ended her sports career. Today she lives with her partner and two sons in Heidelberg.
“Today the disturbance is something of a warning signal for me: if it doesn’t work so well with the food and if I realize that I don’t have it under control, then I have to step on the brakes a bit and think more about myself and see that I will come back on track,” she said. “I’m trying to get something good off the whole thing.” In 2000, the Boulevard press Van Almsick missed the ridicule “Franzi van Speck” after a sporting failure.
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Source: Stern
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