Former gymnast Kim Bui has made it her mission to raise awareness about eating disorders in sports. That cannot be overestimated. Because the signs are often overlooked or ignored.
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Barbara Klimke
She no longer has a scale in her house today. Because Kim Bui had climbed on the scales for years, before every training session, before every competition. Weight control was as much a part of gymnast Kim Bui’s life as twists, somersaults and vomiting, sometimes multiple times a day. “100 grams less than yesterday – it would be a good day. 100 grams more than yesterday – it would be a shitty day,” she writes in her biography. Kim Bui survived, and that’s no exaggeration: eating disorders can be fatal.
