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Elizabeth Smart on Bodybuilding and Refusing to Be Defined By Her Kidnapping

For more than two decades, the world has known Elizabeth Smart through the unimaginable. At 14, she was kidnapped at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City bedroom by drifter Brian David Mitchell, who threatened to kill her family if she made a sound. Mitchell — a religious fanatic who claimed Smart was his “wife” — held her captive in makeshift campsites in the Utah mountains and San Diego for nine months, where she was raped and endured repeated abuse from him and his accomplice, Wanda Barzee. The case transfixed the nation, becoming one of the most high-profile child abduction stories in modern...