As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.
I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!
All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.
When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.
First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.
I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.
I love being active.
I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.
I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.
I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.
Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.
I am from Scranton, PA.
I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!
It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.
I've been skating since I was 10 years old.
I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.
The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.
When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.
