As of , she finished high school with a private tutor. Since late , she is enrolled at Vanderbilt University studying sports psychology and nutrition. They live in Nashville, Tennessee. In November , she revealed that she suffered from an eating disorder in in the lead up to the Olympics. She admitted she only used to eat around calories per day, less than half of the minimum recommended calorie intake for a sixteen-year-old girl. When she was twelve, Johnson competed in the Junior Olympics U.
Level 10 National Championships, finishing fourth in the all-around, first on beam, and second on floor. Johnson qualified Junior International Elite on her first attempt. She attracted widespread attention at the U. Classic, where she placed third. At the U. National Championships, Johnson fell from the beam on the first day of competition and finished tenth all-around.
In , Johnson added several new tricks, including a Jaeger on bars, and two top-difficulty G skills, a full-in back-out dismount off beam and a double-twisting double back on floor. She won the U. Junior National All-Around Championship with a score higher than any of her senior elite competitors.
Johnson became a senior in and continued to show new skills, including a double-twisting double layout dismount off the uneven bars. Johnson also competed in the Pan American Games, winning four gold medals team, all-around, beam and bars and a silver on floor. Johnson won the all-around at the Visa U. National Championships, beating Shayla Worley by more than three points.
Johnson also finished more than five points ahead of two-time National Champion Nastia Liukin , in the first of a series of face-offs over the next two years. Johnson represented the U. In prelims qualification , Johnson scored The U. Johnson performed all four events in the team finals; the only U. Johnson scored She fell on the beam on her handspring-handspring-layout series and scored The team won gold with It was the second U.
In the all-around finals, Johnson scored a Her During event finals, Johnson first competed on the balance beam, where she fell on her standing full and on her switch side leap, scoring a In floor exercise, she went out-of-bounds on her first tumbling pass, but won the gold with a In fact, Johnson has released a few books over the years.
She described this foray into writing to Justine as "kind of like a picture book. Johnson told CBN that working on the book was "therapeutic," as it allowed her to re-visit her younger years.
The book centered on a teenage gymnast and was heavily influenced by Johnson's own experiences growing up. Johnson explained that she loved trying her hand at fiction, although it was harder than penning a memoir as she had to go "just by imagination. I got to kind of be a kid again.
Shawn Johnson may have retired from gymnastics, but she didn't retire from the spotlight. Several years after winning Olympic gold, she returned to screens in the form of her family's YouTube channel, The East Family. The channel has more than one million subscribers and focuses on Johnson, Andrew East, and their family. Being a YouTube star has been exciting for Johnson, but it's also challenging. Another challenge, said Johnson, is that "it's difficult to maintain relevancy" and to churn out a steady stream of content that will resonate with viewers.
Johnson is also active on other social media, including Instagram , where she has millions of followers. Her social media presence has also proven to be quite lucrative. Shawn Johnson is a woman of many talents. Another area she's turned her considerable skills to is the world of business.
In , she joined the reality show Adventure Capitalists , in which entrepreneurs pitched their products to a panel of investors who try out the products before deciding whether or not to invest. The products featured on the show were designed for the outdoors, which was perfect for Johnson, a self-professed "adrenaline junkie. Johnson was excited to join the show as an investor because it allowed her to show the world another side of her.
The athlete explained to USA Today 's For the Win that she's been involved in the business world for a long time as she'd helped to negotiate her contracts for years.
Per her Adventure Capitalists bio , Johnson also co-founded The Body Department , which describes itself as "a creative collective on a mission to propel wellness, fitness and female empowerment within the digital space.
While Shawn Johnson is retired from gymnastics, the sport will always be part of her life. To that end, Johnson has done some coaching since her retirement, although this appears to be more of a side project than another career path — for now, at least. Johnson certainly has the skills and experience to coach at an elite level, but she's admitted that she's unsure if she'd want to do that as a career. She told Inside Gymnastics that the elite level is "so intense" and she'd rather "have more fun with it than that.
Coaching gymnastics isn't the only way Johnson has pursued her passion for fitness and athletics. On her website , she revealed that she also became a certified Nike trainer after retiring from gymnastics. Tragedy struck in when Shawn Johnson suffered a devastating miscarriage. Johnson was crushed by the loss, telling People she "felt so sad and guilty" and like she "had done something wrong," even though her doctor told her no one was at fault.
Still, Johnson worried that the strain she'd put her body as an elite gymnast, between the rigorous training and "extreme diets," was responsible; she always feared that her past would make it difficult for her to even get pregnant. Johnson and her husband opened up about the heartbreaking loss in a YouTube video for I Am Second. Johnson said the miscarriage "was probably the hardest thing I've ever had to go through," but that she and her husband eventually worked through their grief by relying on their faith in God.
Two years after going through what no parent should ever have to suffer, Shawn Johnson and Andrew East welcomed their first child. Like her parents, Drew Hazel East quickly became an influencer herself, and boasts more than half a million followers on Instagram.
Motherhood agrees with Johnson, although it's been challenging at times. With three Olympic medals, one gold, three World Championships gold medals, and seven Pan Am medals, five of them gold, Johnson is among the most accomplished gymnasts in US history. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.
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