チェルシー・ルーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (チェルシー・ルーズInstagram)「Part 3 (of 7 😅): At 19 I went to Beijing for what would be my final Youth World Championship and I was at my lightest. Yet still I didn’t look like my competitors in terms of ripped muscles - I just didn’t have ripped muscles like them, but I longed to have them. “If I were ripped like her perhaps I would have won this World Championship event instead of placing 4th,” is what I told myself. I always got comments from people saying “you don’t look like a climber,” and it would crush me. My world revolved around climbing so why couldn’t I look like ‘a climber?’ I was also a swimmer. I always said that if I weren’t a climber, I would have been a swimmer aspiring to go to the Olympics. I was good. Like really good. But climbing stole my heart. Even as a swimmer though I got comments like “but you don’t have swimmer shoulders,’ and I would just laugh it off, but secretly obsess about it behind closed doors. I competed in triathlon too. And I was really good - standing on the podium at various events of differing distances. Even with all of that training, I still never looked the way good triathletes looked. And unfortunately people made sure I knew this too. This was in my early 20’s. When a girlfriend of mine told me “you don’t look like you send 5.14. I actually look like I should climb 5.14 but I haven’t yet, why?” I just about exploded. She said it so nonchalantly without realizing that what she had just said was a big blow to me. This was when I was 30 years old. I had just sent my first 5.14b, and was focusing really hard on fueling well (which had already changed for the better - i weighed the most I ever had) and accepting my body for the feats it has accomplished (which was actually the hardest part for me). Once she left my house I of course looked in the mirror - and saw the same short, non-ripped arms, wide hips, and short legs that have been with me forever. “At least I have a 6-pack,” 🤦‍♀️ I thought to myself but really I wanted more. Can you relate?」2月15日 23時21分