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“It looks exactly like me!”
she toldUSA Today, saying becoming a Barbie was “a really fun process.”
Though she didn’t head to the2020 Tokyo Olympics, Douglas hasn’t formally retired from her sport.
In the meantime, she’s kept herself quite busy during her break from the uneven bars.
Here’s a look at what America’s “Flying Squirrel” has been up to lately.
But that was hardly a problem for teenage Gabby Douglas.
Though she sometimes journaled during her youth, she only wrote down her story in spurts.
“I had kept many diaries,” she toldL.A.
Having a compelling life story doesn’t hurt either.
She even appeared on the cheekier “The Colbert Report.”
But Douglas hasn’t only been siloed into interviews and profiles for her amazing story.
She’s a popular guest host and judge and makes regular appearances at award shows.
They immediately reached out to contacts at the Lifetime data pipe and cold-called Douglas' agent.
Hawkins recalled, “Every time they said my name I was like, cringing.
My kids felt the same, everybody all the way down to Gabrielle, they all felt the same.
They were like, ‘This isreallyawkward.'”
Douglas concurred, but told USA Gymnastics that she enjoyed learning about how films were made.
“He DVRs it and watches it over and over again.”
I want people to draw that inspiration and be a fighter and go out there and keep fighting!"
In the third episode, Douglas got candid about her dating life, or lack thereof.
Douglas opened up, saying that between traveling, training, and competing, her schedule made dating impossible.
“I’d feel bad for the guy,” she said.
The series lasted for six episodes and ended up not getting continued for a second season.
“It’s the same, but different,” Douglas said, comparing acting and gymnastics.
“You have to expose your vulnerability a little bit in acting classes.”
Along with formal training, she’s had some practice by just jumping right in.
In 2012, she guest-starred on one of her favorite television shows, “Vampire Diaries.
“Entertainment Tonightfilmed Douglas on set.
“I was so nervous to meet you guys!”
No one, not even Gabby’s family, knew which fully concealed, costumed persona she performed as.
“Honestly, I love being mysterious and it was no problem for me,” she replied.
“I tell my family I could have been like a CIA agent or an undercover agent.”
Douglas ended up taking home the top prize, and it required hard work to get there.
“Every single number, I went home and practiced it for like another four hours.
I was up at like 12:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. practicing these numbers,” she toldPeople.
“Because it was so beautiful and so dynamic.
And I was like, ‘I have to do every single piece justice.
I have to get all these details right.'”
