The 23-year-old gymnast will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"I may be competing for a spot too, but I want everyone to win," she told Teen Vogue in anas the magazine's July/August cover star. "I do my best gymnastics when I am out there relaxed and helping others feel supported."
"I was traumatized when I was younger," she said. "I was getting weighed. I was told I could only eat certain things.", saying that she was "shamed into thinking I wasn't fit enough and that I should just consume clear-based soups."The habits Chiles said she developed became something she had to unlearn overtime. She also said that she began seeing the Women's National Team sports psychologist to "ask for help.
She recalled her mom telling her about an incident as a child during a competition when a lady in the crowd pointed at Chiles and said, "'She doesn't deserve to be on the floor. She doesn't even look like anybody else.'""People were racially attacking me without me even really knowing," Chiles said. "Security had to come and say, 'Ma'am, she's doing everything just like everybody else.' I've gotten medals taken away from me.
"There was just times where my self-esteem got to a point where I didn't want to be on the earth anymore," Chiles told "" podcast in January. "I didn't want anything to do with my life. I was like, 'What's the point if I'm always going to get told something?'"Chiles said that seeking professional help has improved her mental health over the years and said that asking for help has helped her "feel more confident in myself.
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