In 1988, Gail Devers was a senior at UCLA and had just broken the American record for the hurdles. Her finishing time on the track was impressive and she was one of the expected favorites to take home gold at the Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Then she started feeling off from head to toe.
“My hair started falling out and that was one of the signs that I was like, ‘hmm, that’s weird,’” Devers tells ESSENCE.
Her naturally long fingernails started to get brittle and break. She began to lose weight. She didn’t think much of the changes until she started getting hurt during training.
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