There is more to Elizabeth Smart than meets the eye. The child safety advocate recently posted a shocking photo of herself competing in a bodybuilding competition. She confessed online that the picture posted on April 21 was, in fact, her fourth time taking part in such an event.
For Elizabeth, the older she gets, the more she realizes the importance of making the most of the time you have. That’s part of the reason she took up this hobby.
The child safety activist “worried” she would not be “taken seriously”
Elizabeth has had a change of heart regarding bodybuilding. The 38-year-old mother of three confessed that a few years ago, that there was no way you would ever see her in a bodybuilding contest. She admits to being “worried that I would be judged, not taken seriously.” Her concern in part was that people would feel she was unworthy to continue her advocacy work.
Elizabeth made national news in the US after her abduction at knifepoint in 2002 at 14. Police rescued her in Sandy, Utah, in March 2003. Her story became a TV movie titled The Elizabeth Smart Story, which premiered that same year.
The mother of three notes that this was a big change for her, pushing and challenging her to never give up. She says that her body has carried her through the most gruelling days. Elizabeth noted how “eerily familiar these feelings and thoughts are for too many survivors.”
Reality TV fans might remember her from The Masked Dancer, competing as Moth in 2021. She went out in the third episode of the series. In 2017, she narrated and produced a made-for-TV movie called I Am Elizabeth Smart. It tells the story of her kidnapping from her perspective. In January Netflix released a true crime documentary about her abduction called Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart.
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