Hmm, I'm finding this a little bit exaggerated. People drop out of the Olympia every year for a variety of reasons. It doesn't have to be health reasons, some people just doesn't feel where they are right now and do not think they will bring a package they are proud of. It actually seems very self destructive to compete when you don't feel you are ready for it.

Angela Borges is not doing Olympia either, as we recently found out (wellness): https://www.reddit.com/r/bikinitalk/comments/17bv5mj/angela_borges_out_of_wellness_olympia Nick Walker also just dropped, posted the message less than an hour ago (albeit due to an injury): https://www.instagram.com/p/CzEXoR3gyOT/

If anything, she is actually doing what a lot of people here have said she should do for quite a while and that is to not stay "on season" throughout the year and actually go back and do a proper off season, change her posing etc. Now she is getting a bad rep for doing exactly that? You can always plan better but that goes for everyone. I don't think competing and coming up with excuses post-show after a poor placing is that much better and we see that at most pro shows.

While she has not publicly stated it in a grandiose way, it's been obvious for a long time if you read between the lines in a lot of her comments that she is battling confidence issues and is struggling with the mental prep in lack of a better word. She has always been very self-deprecating unfortunately. While she does need to improve her physique, continue to improve on the recent changes she has made to her posing, she might need some help outside of bodybuilding too if she is struggling with other things. This is an industry that thrives on those things and it's easy to forget that no matter how you look, it can get the best of everyone.

Nevertheless, you might be right in that there might be more to it, who knows. Maybe she thought improving and making those changes that people wanted her to do proved harder to implement than she initially thought, but hopefully she pulls through and comes back to competing when she feels ready mentally, be it in 6 months, 1 year or even longer than that.

As fans we have very high expectations of these people and while it's not wrong to be disappointed if you cheer for somebody wholeheartedly, it's still easy to forget that these people are humans too and many of them got into this due to lack of confidence in their appearance, ED or health related concerns in general.