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If acceptable two Olympic gold medals and actuality one of the alone African Americans to do it weren't abundant of an overachievement, add publishing two books to the list.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones shares selfie with Michael Douglas | Daily ... | The Dress Bar DouglasIn a aftereffect to her December 2012 memoir, "Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith," Olympic aerialist Gabrielle Douglas is accomplishing aloof that.
To admire the absolution of her additional book, "Raising The Bar," Tuesday, Douglas chatted with The Huffington Post about traveling the globe, award time to date, and how activity has afflicted aback she blanket our hearts in August 2012.
You appear a account at the end of 2012 that gave us a appealing acceptable attending into your activity and how you got to area you are. Acquaint us why you absitively to chase up with this book and how it's altered from what we've already abstruse about you?
I'm so aflame it's out. It's a account book, but not alone pictures -- lots of Gabby Douglas, absolutely acceptable quotes and thoughts, and there are absolutely fun facts about me. Bodies get a little added about me here, like what I love, who I've met, funny belief and who my celebrity drove is. It's an adorning fan book about what I've been accomplishing aback the Olympics.
One accountable you affected on in your aftermost book is your accord with your father, but there isn't any acknowledgment of him this time around. Why is that?
No. In the aftermost book, I absitively to blow on it, because I absolutely capital to; I capital to allotment my story. But in this book, I capital to blow on the fun facts, like what I've been doing, who I've been affair and the abundant opportunities.
You booty us into your relationships with accompany and ancestors and how you absorb your downtime. What about dating? Accept you been able to date at all?
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Michael Douglas wanted Diandra Luker divorce sooner - Mirror Online | The Dress Bar DouglasHmm ... no. I've been traveling a lot, so I absolutely haven't had any time for boys lately.
How important is it to you to acquaintance accustomed boyhood life? Or are you accept with missing out on some of the (let's face it, awkward) moments of aerial school, etc.?
I'm home-schooled and I was consistently in the gym training, so I didn't get to acquaintance activity to school, acrimonious out my dress for prom, boyfriends, but I accept a altered perspective. I'm accepting to do a lot of amazing things, affair a lot of absurd bodies and I accept this belvedere area I can abide to affect people. So I anticipate it's all about perspective. Sometimes I'm like, "Why can't I be a accustomed girl?" but at the aforementioned time I'm absolutely adored to be in this position.
Your adduce the bible throughout the book. Is your acceptance a adamantine time to advance and allege about amid your peers?
No, not at all! I've consistently relied on my faith. It's funny, every time I watch the footage from the Olympics, you can see my aperture and they're affective because I'm praying. It's consistently been a allotment of me. I've consistently acclimated it during trainings or competitions.
Has training in Iowa started aback up? If not, what are you attractive advanced to most?
Not yet. I go aback in a few weeks and I'm absolutely excited! You should absolutely appointment the accompaniment fair. That's my admired part, abnormally the candied corn. It's absolutely good!
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Gabby Douglas Opens Up On Faith, Family And Finding Time To Sleep ... | The Dress Bar DouglasAnd how continued will you be there?
'Til 2016!
You additionally acquaint us about your admired sports teams, including the Lakers. How do you anticipate they're accomplishing in the playoffs after Kobe? From one amateur to another, any words of advice/encouragement for him?
I haven't been able to watch because I've been so busy, but I was a little sad for him aback he got hurt. I tweeted at him adage break able and aloof fight. I anticipate that's all you can do at this point.
Mother's day is advancing up and your mom is acutely one of, if not THE bigger access in your life. How are you planning to bless her?
She's attractive at me sideways. [Laughs.] I'm activity to abruptness her! I anticipate she deserves article out of this apple because she's done so abundant for me. Aftermost mother's day wasn't complete because I wasn't there -- I was in Iowa training. So hopefully this one will be better.
Whatever Douglas does adjudge to allowance her mom this year will assuredly be a baby action as compared to the abutment and action her mother, Natalie Hawkins, has offered her. In a attending at how she able for her summer 2012 feat, Gabby shares this extract from her mom, which she says she apprehend on July 11, 2012, the day she larboard for Olympic Preparation Camp:
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Michael Douglas reveals he hurt groin after he got 'carried away ... | The Dress Bar Douglas… Listen, as you adapt today to go out there and WOW the crowds, bethink one thing. Accept fun and adore yourself! Rebuke afraid activity and acquiesce your close avidity to booty over. It is time to SHINE BRIGHT, my love. Booty in every distinct moment. Remember, you were created for such a time as this …
As you anticipate aback to the day that I put you in gymnastics (I bethink that day like it was yesterday), I acquainted a activity of such pride aback the gym’s buyer came out to ask me how abundant gymnastics acquaintance you had gotten because he accustomed your aptitude from the aboriginal time he saw you. And over the years, as anybody would assert to me how amazing you were, I was abounding with such acknowledgment that God would account me aces to allocate such a adored gem to me …
I achievement that as you apprehend your dream, you will consistently bethink God’s faithfulness. Remembering His advantage has been what has apparent me through abounding difficult and blithesome times. He has absolutely adored you, my love. Go out and SHINE for His Glory…
I accept this is your time. Seize your moment after hesitation. It is yours—now airing in it!
All my love,
Ma
Reprinted from Raising The Bar by Gabrielle Douglas by adjustment with Zondervan Books, Copyright © 2013
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