Ms. Namita Nayyar:
To honor your win in Calgary, North Korea issued miniature sheets with three large pictures of you on the ice and Time magazine called you “the most beautiful face of socialism.” How did you feel about being honored by them?
Ms. Katarina Witt:
Honestly I don’t know this at all, that was TIME North Korea. I know that the slogan “the most beautiful face of socialism” came actually from a journalist from TIME magazine or Sports Illustrated who had watched me at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, and I was compared to ‘oh she looks like Brooke Shields’ and Brooke Shields was a great sweetheart, and a loved sweetheart at this time because of her big success movie, The Blue Lagoon. And actually many many years later I met her in a Sun Valley and she came upto me and she said “Oh its like meeting a sister!” and for me it was the same, because both of us thought that we look so much alike. And that journalist actually had said that if this is the true face of socialism, America could become a socialist country, and that’s why that slogan stayed for me until now these days, which I think is a cute impression and a very emotional, out-spoken moment that that journalist had.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Advice and motivational words to the inspiring and budding female figure skaters who all are your fans, they shall like to know from you, what they should do for their climb to ladder of success in this field?
Ms. Katarina Witt:
Honestly, the skaters that I have been watching these days are incredible! They are physically and mentally so strong that I really admire them. Ofcourse I am very proud of my success and all the medals I have won and that it is unbeaten until these days but when I watch figure skating these days with the triple combinations and the high levels of spins and the incredible execution of step sequences I am totally in awe of what these women and men what they deliver out their on the ice for performances. Its just incredible. I don’t think I need to give any advice, they are just doing fine as they are. I think they just love what they do, like I did what I loved when I was skating.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
What do you wish to say about the website Womenfitness.net and message for its visitors?
Ms. Katarina Witt:
I wish Women Fitness from the bottom of my heart “Happy Birthday”! All the best! Continue your wonderful website and be such a good answer to all the questions that women and girls in the world have to you and give them the best advice that you can have and just continue the wonderful and incredible work of your passionate team.
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