How do you try to go against it?

For me what was hard was I would have girlfriends and I was like, this isn’t gross. So it was hard for me to kind of find a balance of am I gay or does everybody feel like this? I tried so hard to just not be that and not just be another cliché. You know, on the Olympic team, of all the skaters on it, I was the only one that was gay. Are there gay people in skating? Hell yeah there are.

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Do you have any permanent physical repercussions from skating?

No, just emotional. Yes, of course there’s a few. I wake up every morning and twist my ankles and it sounds like a music box — clack clack clack clack clack.

You talked about eating issues and body image issues contributing to injuries — you’re in a position now, especially during the Games, when there’s so much scrutiny on your body, and you’ve got a lot of thirst coming your way. I’m wondering how you deal with all that scrutiny?

Breaking my foot was sort of the best thing that ever happened, because I went to the Olympic Training Center and I sat down with a nutritionist and I told her, I know I’m a mess and I know that I’m doing something wrong. Now I’m comfortable in my own skin. And it wasn’t always that way. But you know, I like my body. Even though I haven’t been to the gym in two weeks and I had a few trips to McDonald’s when I was at the Olympic Village.

But you know, I’m an athlete, I work really hard for the body I have and yes, there are always going to be people who are like, Oh you’re too skinny or you’re too heavy or your boobs look weird or whatever. This is the body that you have. Embrace it. It’s so easy to be a commentator in anybody’s life because everybody has a platform now. Everybody has a Twitter. Everybody has an Instagram so it’s so easy to just say, “You’re fat.”