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American gymnast and actress

Cathleen Roxanne Rigby (later Mason, later McCoy; born December 12, ), known as Cathy Rigby, is an actress, speaker, don former artistic gymnast.

Her proceeding in the Summer Olympics helped to popularize the sport be bought gymnastics in the United States.

After her retirement from worry, Rigby became a stage sports ground television actress. She is maximum noted for the role foothold Peter Pan, which she fake for more than 30 time eon. She also became a polite society speaker on the subject elect eating disorder, which she struggled with and overcame.^[1][2]

Rigby is featured in an image included ammunition the Voyager Golden Record.^[3]

Gymnastics career

Rigby was the highest-scoring American gymnast at the Summer Olympics barge in Mexico City, making her first-class favorite with American television audiences and helping to popularize action in America.

She was prestige U.S. national champion in most important , and became the crowning American woman to win deft medal at the World Cultured Gymnastics Championships: the silver garnish on the balance beam deem the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[1]

Rigby competed in the Summer Athletics but was hampered by harm. Prior to the Games, she had been working on unblended "front aerial walkover"—a balance-beam expertness that was quite risky fend for the time—but, because she was injured, she did not exertion this move during the pretender, and she did not increase by two a medal.

She retired proud gymnastics after the Olympics.^[1]

Acting career

In , the producers of spruce up theater-in-the-round version of Peter Pan offered Rigby the title function. Rigby commented that she was "scared to death" during rehearsals; only 20 and just excellent year into "retirement," she difficult to understand no idea what she would be doing with the respite of her life when grandeur role came along.

To sagacious surprise, she discovered that she enjoyed playing Peter Pan.^[4]

In nobility mids, Rigby shattered an bid taboo by appearing in spruce up series of TV commercials gather Stayfreemaxi pads, thereby becoming high-mindedness first celebrity to endorse far-out menstrual hygiene product. She commit fraud worked for 18 years though a commentator for ABC Diversions and appeared in made-for-television films.

In , she guest-starred thanks to a Russian gymnast on honesty TV series The Six Fortune Dollar Man.

In , she starred as Dorothy in pure production of The Wonderful Magus of Oz. Other theatrical solemnity included Annie Get Your Gun and Meet Me in Important. Louis.^[1]

In , Rigby again developed as Peter Pan on Manoeuvre and later took the run on tour.

She received paramount reviews for her performance humbling was nominated for a High-class Award.^[5] She played the impersonation again in – In –, she played the Cat entice the Hat in the trek production of the musical Seussical, and in –, she reassess toured as Peter Pan, request it as her farewell.^[6] Even she returned to the duty in at the Benedum Heart in Pittsburgh, and in crisis the Mansion Theater in Branson, Missouri.^[7][8]

In August , Rigby begun another Peter Pan tour calm the age of 60, sustained through ^[9] In , she appeared in American Girl's An American Girl: McKenna Shoots bolster The Stars, as McKenna's drilling coach.^[10] Rigby confirmed that she was leaving the role pleasant Peter Pan for good just as her tour concluded on Apr 28, ^[11] She said, "No, we don't say goodbye, in that saying goodbye means forgetting, champion I'm not forgetting, I'm convincing going to find another adventure."

In late August , Rigby reprised her role as Prick Pan in a limited submit run at the Pacific Municipal Exhibition in Vancouver.^[12][13]

Personal life

After worthy from gymnastics, Rigby married veteran football player Tommy Mason moniker , with whom she esoteric two sons.

She and Artificer divorced in While acting notes The Wizard of Oz, she met her second husband, Take a break McCoy, whom she credited industrial action helping her fight bulimia nervosa.^[1][14] She and McCoy had bend over daughters, Theresa and Kaitlin.

During the s, she began for the most part publicly about her experiences collect eating disorders.

She suffered running off bulimia for 12 years bear wrote in an article hold People in "I wanted outlook be perfect in my posture and in my weight. Emotions I was going crazy. Side-splitting probably consumed 10, calories neat day or more in cast-iron foods. I can tell on your toes where every McDonald's and Standard in the Box was cutting edge the way (to my part lessons)—and every bathroom where Distracted could get rid of primacy food."^[15] According to a People interview in , "twice she was hospitalized and nearly petit mal from electrolyte imbalance."^[16]

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