Olympic Heroes Then and Now

Mary Lou Retton

Now: Retton retired from gymnastics in 1986 and began more than two decades of work with Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. In 2008 she launched weight loss website Mary Lou’s Weigh, where she sells a reinvented bathroom scale that tracks fluctuations without ever saying how much you actually weigh. She’s still cute as a button.

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