Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture by Rachel Haines

Rachel Haines is a survivor. This is her story as an elite gymnast and the abuse her and other gymnast endure and endured (sexually).

This book chronicles her life as a gymnast from the time she first entered the gym until her last event. She discusses the toxic culture and need to be thin, perfect and continue on despite the pain the body is under in order to get that next title.

Haines focuses on the gymnastic side of things, the competitions and the meets and while interesting enough it didn't fully hold my attention, mainly because I didn't know the main difference all of them.

She also focus's on her spinal injury and what she did to push through the pain and continue on.

I feel as though something was missing and left unsaid. I felt as though I was being told her story  by someone else rather then reading her story told by her.