A Caricature
Nadya reflected how in the past “I was selfish and immature” and became a caricature of herself. She explained “I never wanted the attention”, but the staff breached her privacy and tipped off the press. “There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.” She added how “I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years. I would take whatever I could back in the days, and I would let them in. I was spiraling down a dark hole. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.” But she came to a realization that “When you’re pretending to be something you’re not, you end up falling on your face.” Still, she was quick to highlight how she would never change the past, because she received her angels through it all.
A Caricature
Running Away
After going through a darker period of her life, she finally found the strength to run away from that downward spiral, both literally and physically. Nadya summed up to the reporter how, “Once I finally ran away from all of the pretending, I was able to be me.” Still, Nadya still had to work much harder to physically heal from the damage of the pregnancy, because “physically at least, that “me” has been irrevocably transformed.“ One of the major side-effects of the last pregnancy was that Nadya’s back was broken. While some would crack under the pressure of so much stress, Nadya started running half-marathons, and encouraged her whole family to run with her.
Running Away
