NIChristian grad focused on health, faith

It was an innocent response to bullying by her basketball teammates freshman year of high school. If she couldn’t fit in with them, Olivia Kinnick decided she would beat them. She would be quicker and stronger. “I had that mindset that if I can be faster than them, if I can work harder than them, I’ll be better than them,” she said. “That turned into, in my mind, weight loss. If I can lose weight, I’ll be faster.” By fall of Kinnick’s sophomore year, Jenifer Miller began questioning her daughter’s fitness regime. Her doubts soon became certain: Kinnick had taken her quest to be fit and fast to the extreme. By the middle of 10th grade, 5-foot-5 Kinnick had dropped from 137 pounds to 90 pounds. Miller sought help/ Taryn Thompson , SR Voices. More here.

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