Tonya Harding
Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxene Harding is an American former figure skating champion, a two-time Olympian, and a two-time Skate America Champion. In 1991, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. Harding was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple Axel jump in competition. In 1994, she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association and pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution following the attack on fellow skater Nancy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth12 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.
She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.
One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.
I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.
My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.
I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.
People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.
It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.
Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.
Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.
There are some similarities between boxing and skating. Both require power and grace. Physically, boxing is obviously much harder. I weighed between 105-108 pounds when I skated. I will weigh around 120 for my first fight. I just ate a bunch of carbohydrates, which was great, to help gain some weight. I did not lift weights at all.