US goalkeeper Hope Solo is regarded as a kind of sex symbol of women’s football still today the 31-year-old suffered long under her physique.(Photos)

No doubt about it: Hope Solo has made her peace with her body. Again and again the goalkeeper of U.S. national football team is seen with more or less lascivious photos in the press. Attention it attracted mainly 2011 with a Cover of ESPN Magazine: The Naked Hope Solo shoots out an imaginary football toward viewer, tense every muscle in the body.

Hope Solo has posed nude and doesn’t have any problem talking about it. And why would she, a 5’9,” gold medal-winning Olympic soccer player who has worked hard for her career and her body?

In an interview with the “Huffington Post” revealed the 31-year-old now that it took a long time to feel proud of their bodies can. “In college, you just want to belong,” she said. “But if you go there as athletic man at parties, get the guys and say, ‘Damn, you could kick my ass!’ – At that time I just wanted to cry. ”

Later came a time in which they had found beautiful and a strong woman. To this day, but they’ll face their body – for example in the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” where she attended recently. “There was always that I had too many muscles,” Solo said. As a U.S. national team player she feels left in the lurch by the audience: “You always want us to win gold medals for you, but at the same time I must not look as if I had muscles that supposed to be American..?”

Had recently made ​​headlines with her ​​autobiography, which was published last year solo. “This was a very stressful time,” she said in an interview. “There were a number of very personal things out, and it is hard to talk about it in interviews.” She had been completely exhausted and then have a break needed. “But today I am very proud of the book.”