Former UCLA Bruins women’s gymnastics star Katelyn Ohashi is passing a contemporary life quieter and relishes, The moments of joy are simpler now, Katelyn Ohashi finds them not in an impeccably wedged wharf or a crowd’s roar for an indefectible routine, but a quieter actuality.
Three times after the viral sensation and each- American turner’s scale from UCLA, life came mornings with cherished pussycats Bonnie, Clyde, and Silky, Life came to a board under her bases rather than a mat, taking up skating, soaking in the Venice sun while cruising down the beachfront,
She hasn’t lost the beaming smile that pointed viral UCLA routines, That joy was genuine, too. But the separation has helped Ohashi feel freer of a tearful history, And stepping back, chancing at herself, has allowed Ohashi to accept it all — the pain, the person she was, the person she came from.
The routine with further than 44 million views on the UCLA slimnastics Twitter account comes up the most frequently.
Ohashi mimicked with a grin. She widened her eyes and captured hearts in January 2019, cutting back handsprings with shimmies to R&B and pop music, a grin shining the entire way through en route to scoring a perfect 10.
But Ohashi, too, looks back at the old footage of routines from her college, elite competition days. She looks angry, people tell her. Sad. She watches and feels herself in those moments quailing in pain, battling through physical injuries that were further of an internal collapse, Ohashi has constantly used her platform now with further than one million Instagram followers to explore the effect of body-smirching she endured in her early times of competition. It’s strange for her to see that interpretation of herself now, the bone
who broke down crying in the auto after winning one of her biggest competitions.
In 2021, Ohashi performed in Simone Biles ’ “ Gold Over America ” stint. It gave her a chance to flip the switch back to a pantomime — and it was a commodity she realized she missed.
“ Coming back, I ’m like, ‘ Oh, man This is what I fell in love with within slimnastics, ’ ” Ohashi said.
But she’s also concentrated on other gamblers. During the epidemic, Ohashi frequently turned to poetry. Every week, she and her musketeers would gather via Zoom, during which they’d partake in their jotting.
Her biggest adventure is an animated short that she wrote from her poetry, a planned six- a to-10-minute film that Ohashi is trying to fundraise for. The design, which she plans to direct, will center on her life, slimnastics, internal health, body image, and family dy
