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- Aug. 08, 1994: Died:Christy Henrich
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Aug. 08, 1994 Everybody's Hip (And That's Not Cool)
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <p> DIED. CHRISTY HENRICH, 22, former gymnast; of multiple-organ
- failure stemming from anorexia nervosa; in Kansas City. In 1988
- Henrich missed immortality by 0.118 points--the all but immeasurable
- gap between the young gymnast's performance and a berth on the
- 1988 U.S. Olympic team. Henrich, who started training at age
- four, was a competitor so obsessive that she was nicknamed E.T.--Extra Tough. But she suffered from a secret obsession as
- well: the compulsive conviction that she was always too fat.
- Henrich's anorexia grew so severe that by 1991 she was too weak
- to compete. At her death, she weighed 60 lbs.
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