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Los Angeles, Oct 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone has revealed that she posed nude for the 2011 edition of the ESPN Body Issue to prove a point. The 23-year-old said she wanted to prove that you don’t need to be 13 or 14 to have the body to be a good gymnast.

In an interview with ESPN, Alicia revealed that she spends time in taking care of her body. She said when she decided to come back into the sport after her brief retirement after the Beijing Games, she started becoming conscious of her body.

Her exact response on the question of when she became self-conscious was, “It was probably right after I made my comeback — after retiring post-2008 Olympics — when I finally felt more at ease with my body… You realize, “Oh! In the real world, I’m not fat. I’m actually in shape.” And…I learned to appreciate my body as it is; I learned how to work with it.”

Alicia is among a host of other sports stars who posed naked for the 2011 edition of the ESPN Body Issue magazine. The lower parts of all the athletes will not be published in the magazine.The magazine will be in the newsstands on Friday.