Losing Béla
The bad news didn’t stop with her parents’ divorce. Romanian sporting officials decided that her coach, Béla Károlyi, needed to abandon Nadia and coach elsewhere. Seeing as he was the coach whom she had trained with since she was 6 years old, she felt heart-broken and the result of this feeling would lead her down a dangerous path.
Stress Overload
At only 15 years old, Nadia couldn’t handle the stress of all the drastic changes around her, and she lost her motivation to train at the gym. At this time, she wound up in hospital due to the high levels of stress that she wasn’t equipped to deal with.