Gymnast McKayla Maroney All Legs After Too Many Fries
By Rebecca Cukier on March 15, 2021 at 6:28 AM EDT
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Mckayla Maroney is proving fries do a gymnast good with her killer legs out in one heck of a look. The 25-year-old vault queen, making a speedy recovery after her February hospitalization for kidney stones, was showing her massive appetite this weekend, although she did admit to having possibly overdone it on the French Fries. The London 2012 Olympics face posted for both her 1.3 million Instagram followers and a smaller audience on her Glohé wellness account, with the photos proving popular all-around. See why below.
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Scroll for the photos. They come as McKayla takes an unusual approach to food on her wellness feed, with this month seeing the gymnast's tomatoes come with a strict warning as she outlined lesser-known downsides to the tasty fruit. Proving she's quite tasty to look at, McKayla updated with gorgeous weekend shots out in the city, in the sun, and all blue-and-white in a skimpy sundress paired with a very chic and navy sweater.
The lacy-come-wooly look, seeing Maroney with tousled long hair, also came with super-chic statement shades.
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Maroney, who has admitted that her weight became scrutinized after the 2012 Olympics, was happy to admit she might have indulged a little too much – the California native wrote "Happy Sunday" on her main account, then revealing: "I definitely just ate too many french fries" as she hoped "everyone had a nice Sunday" on Glohé.
"I did, thank you! Same here, but replace fries with pizza! Have a great week!" one fan replied. Another, meanwhile, said it was "understandable" and that fries are "hard to put down sometimes."
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Maroney, who has tested out raw veganism and recently wondered if it was the cause of her past acne troubles, has been admitting to a few indulgences of late. One, in particular, since her late February visit to the E.R., one that saw Maroney front media outlets for revealing she was in "severe pain" before her kidney stones diagnosis. McKayla has been grabbing coffees at "cute" coffee shops, but she does recognize that caffeine personally does her no favors. See the camo spandex workout below.
In 2016, four years after her career peak at the London Olympics, McKayla opened up to Self about the focus on her looks.
"Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that," she told the magazine: "And for people saying that, for the most part—it would kind of hurt my feelings when you haven't done anything."
If gymnast Simone Biles sounds familiar, scroll for her removing her chest piercing in a bikini!