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Just when you thought you had heard the last of Paris Olympic Games breakdancer Rachael Gunn, AKA Raygun, she is back with a new glamour photo shoot and interview for Stellar magazine.
Last week, we got a little sneak peek of what to expect when the cover photo of Raygun from the upcoming issue of Stellar magazine made its way on to the internet.
The Australian Olympic breaking star looked almost unrecognizable in a long, form-fitting electric blue dress with her hair slicked back in a tight ponytail for Australia’s most-read Sunday magazine.
Now, with the weekend in the rearview mirror, some of the content of the interview with Raygun that accompanied the photo shoot, as well as more pic from the session, can be revealed.
“It’s been so hard to process,” Gunn says in her her interview with Stellar.
“My whole world has changed. My identity has changed.
“My relationships have changed, for better or for worse. It’s in times like these that you find out who your real friends are, unfortunately.
“And because things are still changing, it’s just impossible to wrap your head around,” Gunn continued. “It’s hard to predict what it’s going to be like when I leave the house.
“It’s still a process because I’m having to prioritize my own health. I speak to my family when I can, but it’s hard for me to know the toll it’s taken on them because I think that will take a toll on me.”
Raygun also stated in her interview that she believes her age (she is 37-years-old) had something to do with the reaction she got at the Olympics.
“Our culture is very obsessed with age,” she said.
“I think it’s been a real sticking point for a lot of people: me essentially not knowing my place, what I should be doing with my time at this age; (in their view) it’s certainly not participating in that environment, even though I wasn’t the oldest there.
“I had a few people tell me on Facebook and on Instagram what I should be doing … that I should be picking the kids up from school.
“I saw a great meme that was like, ‘The world is hard on silly women,’ with a photo of me.
“Women aren’t allowed to be silly.
“But I think if I was a man, I would have very quickly been given the larrikin title and people would have rallied behind me a lot more.”
(A larrikin is, according to the Oxford dictionary, a boisterous, often badly behaved young man.)
While she admits that all the ridicule has taken a mental toll on her, she still has big plans for the future.
“I’ve got a few new projects that I’m working on right now that I’m really excited about [that are] centered around self-expression and joyfulness,” she said.
“You should be hearing more about them in the next few months.”