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Laurie Hernandez might be an Olympic gold medalist but this impressive young woman is just getting started.
Her Olympic dreams started when she was a young child who was not even in gymnastics.
Lofty goals for a 5-year-old!
The 2016 Rio Olympics was surprisingly her first major international meet and she made it a memorable one.
She took home both a team gold and an individual silver medal for the beam.
On the show, she partnered with professional dancer Val Chmerkovskiy as she switched from floor routines to tangos.
The power duo shined week after week and even managed to get the first perfect score of the season.
Talk aboutsuccess at a young age!
Per the book’sAmazonlisting, the memoir made several bestseller lists.
With everything she’s accomplished as a teen, the question remains: What is there left to do?
This time it was the movie “The Age of Adaline” that inspired her.
Maybe we will see her building up her acting career even more once her gymnastics days are behind her!
