A kick arse conversation about body image
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Caroline
Madison
Elsie
Louise
Marianna
Tarlina
Patti
Michelle
Ellie
Kylie
Love her body
Two are in love with their butts. Two are having an impact on keeping Indigenous kids in remote communities active. And the one thing they all want young women to know is it’s okay to “be yourself”. We’ve united 10 of our nation’s most talented female athletes for a kick-arse conversation on body image for International Women’s Day.
WORDS Bree Winchester PHOTOS Karleen MinneyMULTIMEDIA Tracy Peters
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“Be you and stay true.”
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Caroline Buchanan
AGE 26
SPORT BMX/MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING
HEIGHT 164CM
WEIGHT 64KG
What do love about your body? My eyes and my hair. I always had trouble with my helmet because I'd finish a race and my hair would be so messy. I decided at 14 to cut it and now it's just constant messy helmet hair - it’s my signature.
What don’t you like? I was always the girl with the big legs and the big butt - but the tide has turned and they’re both now my biggest asset.
Death Row dinner? Hash browns and frozen yoghurt.
Who inspires you? My parents. My fiance Barry Noble - he pushes me on the bike and off the bike. And Layne Beachley - she’s always been a mentor of mine.
What’s your advice to young girls on their bodies? Just love it. You’re stuck with it so you've got to love it. Be yourself. Through my style and my sport and everything really, I've always done that, I've stayed true to me. It’s now my biggest asset and brand.
Best advice you’ve ever been given? It was advice from my mum: “be you and stay true.”
As roaring flames and thick black smoke approached her family home during the Canberra fires of 2003, Caroline Buchanan thought only of saving one thing - her mountain bike.Buchanan was just 12 years old when the Canberra fires ripped through her suburb of Duffy, destroying her family’s home, her grandmother’s home and neighbouring Stromlo Forest. In a bittersweet twist, Buchanan won her first BMX world title 9 years later, at the world-class mountain bike track built as part of a reinvigorated Stromlo Forest Park.
“There are always great things that come from the worst things that happen in life,” Buchanan said.
“I was 12. Our family home was destroyed, my grandma's home was destroyed so we all ended up living together.
“We re-grouped, and the only thing we saved was our bikes. My dad raced, my brother raced, and that was what kept us on track as a family.”
Today, Buchanan is a global rock goddess of BMX and mountain bike racing. She has four mountain bike world titles and three BMX world championships under her belt and made history in 2012 by claiming two world titles in 56 days.
She’s a walking talking sports business - international sponsors include Sony and Harley Davidson - and her fans watch “everything I do in real-time, they’re with me on the journey” through action-packed bursts of video on Instagram and Facebook.
Her platinum hair, courage on the track and determination scream attitude, and she and mountain bike-racing fiance Barry Noble are often referred to as the Pink and Carey Hart of the sport. “Because I do do male-dominated sports most of my followers are males - so there can be some funny comments online [about my body] but it’s all pretty positive,” Buchanan said.
“I love that there’s been a fitness/health boom and for women skinny isn't necessarily pretty anymore - it’s all about girls that have muscle, girls that look after their body who are healthy.
"There are always great things that come from the worst things that happen in life"
– Caroline Buchanan
“I love seeing that progression, it’s beautiful to be strong and to be muscly and as an athlete that’s been a nice turnaround.” Buchanan’s 164cm body is the focus of a team of sporting experts - including a coach, a gym coach, a psychologist, several nutritionists and a sports scientist. In the lead-up to an Olympic cycle she’s under 24-hour observation, on and off the bike, and even while sleeping. “For BMX, it’s a 25 to 35-second sport so it's very short, sharp and explosive,” she said.
“To be a good BMX racer it's a combination of power to weight, so having strength but being able to move fast.
“That's one thing over time in two Olympic cycles I've learnt to manage. I’ve been a lot heavier, I’ve been a lot lighter, my skinfolds have jumped up and down but over time we've come to where I’m at now - 64 kilos, 164cm tall but with a solid 19 watts per kilo power on the bike.
“For me, that’s my best power to weight ratio.” Buchanan knows her success on the bike is equally about her mental health. She balances out rigorous daily physical training with pet cuddles and spending time with her fiance. “For BMX at Olympic and world level, we’re all so similar that a lot of it doesn't come down to genetics, it’s more the mental capacity on the day to actually execute a perfect race,” she said.
“I love french bulldogs, I have a fiance who races as well, and having that life balance is crucial for me.
“It’s been a breath of fresh air to do BMX and mountain biking and that’s the biggest thing - balancing life and sport to ride the highs and lows of what I do.” August of 2016 was a definite low for Buchanan. She crashed out of the qualifying stages at the Rio Olympics despite being a gold-medal favourite.
“For me, it's just getting back on the bike straight away, so just ‘get back on the horse’ as they say,” she said.
“I tend to set goals that will excite me and scare me at the same time.
“I learnt that after the London Olympics when I aimed for three world titles in 56 days and walked away with two - I made history within cycling and I knew that was how I should continue to approach everything I did.”
For now, it’s all eyes on Tokyo 2020.
“My body right now is perfect for what I want it to be.”
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Madison de Rozario
AGE 23
SPORT TRACK AND FIELD PARALYMPIAN
HEIGHT 160CM
WEIGHT 41KG
What do love about your body? My back - I love the top part of my back the most. It's a shock when I see it because obviously you can’t see the top part of your back but I’ll see a photo and be like “that's quite good!"
What don’t you like? The lack of symmetry - not even a disproportion top to bottom - it's just the symmetry is the only thing I don’t like.
Who inspires you? [Fellow paralympian] Angie Ballard, who’s been my roommate since 2012. She had a bad patch but took a lot of risks and went through a deeply personal journey and a transition to break two world records.
What’s your advice to young girls on their bodies? Your body will look how your body looks and you're allowed to work on it. You’re allowed to not be happy with it and want it to look different and you’re allowed to improve your body.
Death Row dinner? Japanese food. Or a big plate of pineapple.
Best advice you’ve ever been given? The best advice I’ve ever been given is “you don’t have to be pretty like her, you can be pretty like you.” On the outside this seems like a fairly superficial piece of advice. I feel like it can be applied to so many aspects of life though. The ‘pretty’ can be replaced with ‘talented’, ‘smart’, ‘happy’, the list goes on!
Madison de Rozario remembers what it feels like to dance.The Perth native was part way through rehearsals for a dance concert at the age of three when she caught the flu. While her small body fended off the initial illness, de Rozario developed the rare autoimmune disease transverse myelitis, and her body started to attack itself. The disease had worked its way up to her collarbone when she arrived at hospital in a critical condition.
"They managed to pull the disease back down to my waist," she said.
"It attacked not my spinal cord but the myelin sheath around it, and as a result I had a non-traumatic spinal injury."
The tiny ballerina was declared paraplegic three weeks later and taken home by her parents in a wheelchair. Through their devastation, de Rozario's parents Roy and Linda, and sisters Alexandra and Kennedy, worked hard not to exclude her from family activities and even sport.
"I was in a chair from so young and obviously both my sisters walk, but it took me a long time to realise there was any major difference with my body," she said.
"I would play soccer with my sisters - dad coached and I'd be the goal keeper.
"We played all through school, and I'd play too, and it wasn't until the end of primary school that I started to notice a difference."
Her early teenage years were hard for de Rozario. She struggled with body image ("not because of my legs but because of scoliosis of my back"), wore huge t-shirts to cover her curved spine and could never find pants to fit her legs ("size six pants are too big, I still to this day have to get them taken in"). It seems impossible now that the paralympic medallist hated wheelchair sports when she tried them at age 12.
"At first I was horrible at everything," she said.
"I tried a bunch of things and I was so uncoordinated - it was a disaster! I tried basketball and had no ball skills or coordination at all.
"Eventually I tried athletics and I wasn't good to begin with - it's a really difficult sport to get the hang of because none of it comes naturally, even for someone in a chair, pushing an actual race chair is a completely different feeling.
"Mum was like 'if you want to stop and try something new we can do that' but I was stubborn - and I was committed."
Committed was an understatement. Within two years, under the direction of former Paralympic athlete Frank Ponta, de Rozario had built up the upper body strength and speed to be competitive in Disability Class T53 (track racing) at a world level.
"Coming to terms with how your body looks and feels is really important"
– Madison de Rozario
In 2008, the body she'd struggled with as an early teen delivered her to the most phenomenal moment of her life.
"I was 14 and I walked into the Bird's Nest for the first time at the Beijing Paralympics Opening Ceremony," she said.
"It's all a massive blur, but I walked in amongst our team of 400 athletes and staff, and as we were walking in someone started singing Waltzing Matilda and then next thing you know everyone is singing.
"The stadium was 100 per cent packed. All I could see was the flashing of all of the cameras. It was honestly surreal, and something I don't think I will ever forget.
"An insane feeling of really being a part of something bigger. Part of a team, part of an entire movement."
De Rozario won a silver medal in Beijing in the Women's 4x100 m T53/54 event. It was the first medal to take pride of place in a glass case that now contains six medals in total, including a gold from the 800m T53 event at the IPC Athletics World Championships in 2015, and two silver medals from Rio last year (800m T53 and 4x100m relay).
De Rozario now describes her body as "perfect".
"The 'perfect' body doesn't exist, and yet we spend so much time trying to achieve it, as opposed to what our individual perfect body is," she said.
"Your own perfect body isn't one specific thing. It will change and evolve with you.
"My body right now is perfect for what I want it to be."
She continues to train under the direction of Louise Sauvage at the Australian Institute of Sport and has her eyes firmly on a place in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic squad. She's proud of "pretty much my entire upper body - I'll see a photo of my back and think 'wow! That looks great'", and loves that she's found a sport that requires the use of all of her working muscle groups.
She struggles to answer when quizzed on what she doesn't like about her body, and decides eventually on its lack of symmetry.
"Coming to terms with how your body looks and feels is really important," she said.
"You can't get out of it - this is what you have to deal with and feeling negative about something that is you 100 per cent of the time is a horrible way to be.
"I always go back to the fact that I'm strong and my body can do incredible things.
"Even if aesthetically it isn't perfect, that is so irrelevant compared to how I feel about it, and what I want my body to do."