Kidnapping Survivor Elizabeth Smart Stuns With Bodybuilding Pics
Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart shocked follows by sharing a bikini photo from the Wasatch Warrior event in Salt Lake City. “When I posted the pictures in my story of me standing on stage in a bikini it probably shocked many of you,” Smart wrote. But it was actually her fourth competition, and she had been afraid to reveal that side of her for fear she’d be viewed as “unworthy to continue work as an advocate for all survivors.”
Smart worried about being “judged, not taken seriously, somehow perceived as less than…”. Smart was kidnapped at 14 from her Utah bedroom in June 2002 and held captive for nine months by Brian David Mitchell, who sexually abused her. Mitchell received life in prison while accomplice Wanda Barzee served 15 years and was later re-arrested.