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"I'm Mexican and I look like one", Alexa Moreno

The gymnast opened up to the media about all those negative comments regarding her looks at the Rio Olympics

After her participation in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics of 2016 on August 8th, gymnast Alexa Moreno was highly criticized in all social media because of her appearance. Last Wednesday she agreed to an interview with BBC and talked about the impact these negative comments had on her.

"I felt sad, it did hurt. I'm not a robot who doesn't feel," said Alexa, who was the only Mexican who represented her country in gymnastics, causing that all of the good comments regarding her performance got overshadowed by her looks.

With 1.43 meters tall (around 4 feet high) and a weight of 54 kilos, Alexa was compared with "Peppa Pig" Cartoon. After she read all those awful comments on her looks she decided to post on Twitter: "I'm Mexican and I look like one. You can't expect me to be blonde."

"I didn't make any huge mistake in my performance, which took me for surprise, I didn't think I was going to achieve that much in all the disciplines."

For now, this young woman of 22 years-old is not sure about competing next Olympics, she prefers to focus on her Architecture career for now, and rest from all the hard work of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

via BBC.

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Translated by: cristina.mora@sandiegored.com

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