Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I really appreciate that you are summarizing both books side by side. It’s really quite unnerving and depressing to see the way she was forced into glorifying her abusers in public. I cannot even begin to imagine how that complicates the trauma even further.

 

[QuietColours]

I do think it's important to note with this one that it is "as told to Steve Woodward." I have wondered on many occasions as I was reading what that interview was like (and who else was interviewed), and exactly how much of any of this is Moceanu's own words and how much is a ghost writer having the outline of her career and filling in the blanks with the expected tone. It's entirely possible she never even read the book prior to its publication, much less that she had any editorial authority over it.