The Daily Telegraph - 16.08.2019

Caster Semenya

Double Olympic 800m champion

Ama Agbeze Commonwealth

gold-winning netball captain

Joanna Rowsell Shand

Double Olympic gold medallist

and Alopecia UK ambassador

Holly Bradshaw

Pole vaulter

Simone Biles

Four-time Olympic

gymnastics champion

Kadeena Cox

Double Paralympic

champion

Serena Williams

23-time grand slam champion

“As much as

someone else

might think,

‘You’ve got an

amazing

figure’, in my

head I still

don’t. I’m

going to

have to

essentially

reset my

mindset

and take

control.

I’m sure I’ll

get there.”

“I’ve never been

someone who has woken

up in the morning and

thought, ‘This is so

unfair. Why have I

got this?’ I wake up

in the morning and

think about

whatever it is I am

targeting. Before it

was the Olympics. Now

it’s education.”

“Sometimes I still feel like I

can’t wear certain things.

But I’m also figuring out

my body and what

looks better. I try

not to wear things

that make me

look too

muscular, but

things that I

still look

confident and

beautiful in.”

“There is this

whole perception

that Muslim

women are

oppressed, they

can’t follow their

dreams or

aspirations and

they are

constantly

being told

what to do.

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at all.”

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Eilish McColgan

Middle-distance runner

“Nothing

p----- me off

more than

someone

making a

comment

that I’m

‘too

skinny’.

I’m

naturally

small

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  have
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  people are
  just slim.
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  surprise
  that young
  girls feel the
  need to get
  boob jobs,
  big plastic
  arses and
  contour
  themselves
  down to their
  kneecaps to
  fit what’s
  deemed the
  ‘ideal’ body.”

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First jockey to ride in a race

in Britain wearing a hijab

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wearing a hijab

“Muscles are seen as male

territory. In the sporting arena,

people understand what an

athlete’s body looks like, but

when I walk down the street,

people will stare and make

comments. Often they will

assume I am (or was) a man

because I’m tall and muscular.”

“People would say I was born a

guy, all because of my arms, or

because I’m strong. I was different

to Venus: she was thin and tall and

beautiful, and I am strong and

muscular – and beautiful, but, you

know, it was just totally different.”

This is my body

and I am proud

to be me

Alysia Montano

800m runner

“I know

there is a

lot of

stigma and

ignorance

around pregnant women

exercising, but the truth

is it’s good for the mom

and the baby.”

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“I feel like I’ve never fitted the

image of a pole vaulter. When I

was young I had a little bit of

puppy fat. Everyone is slightly

different, but even as a youngster

I was always pitched as a bit

different.

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if you

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like a man. But then if I like

trousers, I’m going to wear trousers.

If I like suits, I like suits. I’m not

going to go around wearing skirts,

wearing dresses if they

don’t suit me.”

“I had an adult body at such a young

age – I had hips, quite a big backside,

and I didn’t know what to do with it

or how to feel about it. When you’re

around a bunch of white girls and

their bodies look the same, and then

there is yours, it messes with your

self-esteem so much.”

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