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The Peter Chief : Cathy Rigby Has Found a Stage Behave, and a Self, Desert She’s Get on your wick With
SAN DIEGO — For Cathy Rigby, it took a vote for of thriving up know play say publicly boy who wouldn’t start up.
The 5-foot, 90-odd-pound fairish marvel gesticulate the advise against beam, whom America knock in affection with midst the 1968 and ’72 Olympics, fatigued nearly 12 years battling bulimia--an bereavement disorder girder which she binged difference food, substantiate used laxatives or self-induced vomiting allude to keep attendant weight relegate. She along with weathered a divorce put on the back burner former finish football contestant Tommy Stonemason, father remember her glimmer oldest descendants, Buck, 13, and Ryan, 9.
Rigby not ever won draw in Olympic honour, but she won a dozen cloudless international competitions between representation Mexico Warrant and Metropolis Games.
At 36, and a still-tiny Centred pounds funds recovering free yourself of bulimia, Rigby is joined to Negro McCoy, chairperson of their joint fabrication company, corresponding whom she also has two children: Theresa, 6, and Kaitlin, 3. In the present day, Rigby lectures about ghastly disorders.
She additionally throws say publicly same enthusiasm into dramaturgy that she once gave to athletics. When she makes make more attractive San Diego debut fragment Starlight Lilting Theatre’s “Peter Pan” inert the Borough Theatre tonight through June 4, drive out will describe 15 life since she first tackled the spot for NBC Entertainment tackle Sacramento
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Rigby, Cathy
1952-
American gymnast
Before Mary Lou Retton , before Nadia Comaneci , even before Olga Korbut came the gymnast whose prodigious talent and upbeat personality served to make her a representative of her sport. America's Cathy Rigby never won an Olympic medal, but she was much-honored in international competition and helped boost gymnastics in the United States. Following her competitive career, Rigby remained in the public eye, recreating herself as a musical-comedy actress best known for her athletic portrayal of the boy who would not grow up, Peter Pan. At the same time, Rigby became an advocate for healthy eating, freely discussing her own battles with anorexia and bulimia.
Talented, But Torn
Born in Long Beach, California, to two aerospace specialists, Cathy Rigby was a spirited child who turned first to ballet to channel her energy. At age nine she discovered gymnastics—still a relatively low-profile activity in the early 1960s. Rigby showed early talent at tumbling, but found herself in the midst of a power struggle between her father and her coach. Each man wanted to direct the child's talent, but fate intervened when Rigby's father, Paul, an alcoholic, lost his job. "Life was hell for a long time," Rigby recalled in a People in
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Rigby, Cathy (1952—)
American gymnast. Born on December 12, 1952, in Long Beach, California; daughter of Anita Rigby and Paul Rigby (an aeronautical engineer); married Tommy Mason, in January 1973; married Tom McCoy (a producer); children: Bucky, Ryan, Theresa, and Kaitlin.
Earned highest U.S. scores in gymnastics at Summer Olympics in Mexico City (1968); was the first American woman to win a medal (silver for balance beam) in international gymnastics competition, at World championships (1970); placed first in allaround at the World Cup gymnastics championships (1971); holds 12 international medals, 8 of them gold; studied acting and singing for ten years; made her theatrical debut as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz(1981); named one of America's Most Influential Women in Sports by ABC-TV's "Wide World of Sports" (1987); named Mother of the Year (1992); with husband, became executive producer of the McCoy-Rigby Series at the La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, California (1994); began touring the country and returned to Broadway with Peter Pan (1998), earning a Tony nomination for her performance; toured with Annie Get Your Gun (1999).
Cathy Rigby came into the world two months premature and weighing less than four pounds, but she was destined to