She is upfront about her dating history, and manages to completely gloss over the emotional strain of maintaining a relationship while competing at an international level and keeping on homework. She spends two or three paragraphs describing bargaining for fake designer jeans in Beijing, and only a sentence describing an international competition. It's part journal, part expose, part catharsis. This is very much a book by a teenage girl, and one who displays the ironies of any child prodigy: extreme maturity where she is most gifted and a huge amount of unrecognized sheltering in every other area of life. Second, despite what Shawn may think, immaturity is still very apparent in both her writing style and her self analysis. Shawn still has so much of her life ahead of her, a memoir would seem inappropriate where it not for the fact that she has already accomplished so much. First, the author is still so young, barely twenty years old at the time it was published. Some things are immediately apparent when reading this book. This autobiography describes her journey there and back with some of her personal poetry inserted at illuminating points. She has been honored with numerous awards for her contribution to gymnastics.Shawn Johnson competed as an elite gymnast in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and in the years just preceding. Further, she also won silver in team, all-around and floor events at the Beijing Olympics. As a 16-year old rising star, she went on to rule the world of gymnastics by striking gold in the balance beam event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing. Besides, she also bagged the world title in floor exercise. By winning gold in the all-around competition in 2007 World Championship in Stuttguart, she became the fourth American woman to claim a World Championship title in the event. She is a three-time holder of US all-around championship-once as a junior and twice as a senior. Shawn Johnson started competing in national junior events at the age of 12 and was a part of various national and international events as a senior, winning a number of titles.
Introduced to gymnastics at the age of three, she plunged into gymnastics full-time to become a professional gymnast.
Shawn Johnson is a retired American artistic gymnast who won balance beam gold at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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