Diggins, a big profile in the World Cup after ten seasons, has a Olympic gold in sprint relay from Pyeongchang 2018 and a World Cup gold in the same branch from the World Cup in Val di Fiemme 2013. In addition, she has six individual World Cup wins and 25 podium places.
At the 2018 Olympics, she was a classic at 10 km, only three seconds from the podium. Instead of looking forward to a near-perfect race, she started accusing herself of being too fat, that's where the three seconds were.
Cleaned up the pancakes for breakfast- I was very hard on myself and did not think that I was enough or trained well enough. I really wasn't kind to myself, ”says 28-year-old Diggins.
After a breakfast of pancakes as an 18-year-old, the self-harm hell began.
- I thought I couldn't eat this. On the way to my parents' grocery store, I stopped at a gas station and went to the bathroom and cleaned everything up for the first time. It was a scary experience and I denied how serious it was.