I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.