In this Q&A with SELF, Olympian Katie Ledecky talks about her new memoir, the momentum of women in sports, and what is next after the Paris Games.
Katie Ledecky has dominated the pool on the world’s biggest stage for over a decade. But as she writes in her new book Just Add Water, that was never her plan. Olympians were superheroes, she believed. Ledecky, meanwhile, was just a girl who loved water and aimed, in her first 25-yard freestyle race, to make it across the pool without stopping. But it didn’t take long to realize she had a hell of a lot more in her.
I thought it was important to tell my whole story, and that was a part of my story, especially leading up to the 2016 Olympics. It was a new thing that I had to acknowledge and be aware of, something that was always in the back of my mind. I wanted to share how that’s impacted me at different points and how I’ve been able to push through that and take control of that part and live a healthy lifestyle.
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