Former SJSU volleyball co-captain Brooke Slusser revealed to Fox News Digital she developed severe anorexia and sleep issues, she says was due to a national controversy over her trans teammate.
Sunday marked exactly one year since Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser's final college volleyball game for San Jose State University.
They had been playing together, traveling together and doing team bonding activities for months even after Slusser took legal action, alleging she was never told Fleming was a biological male transgender athlete. Before that, they had already shared hotel rooms and changing spaces for a whole season in 2023 before Slusser said she even found out.
Slusser now says the panic and stress from that period in her life caused her to develop an eating disorder, which led to severe anorexia that got so bad she lost her menstrual cycle for nine months.
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Brooke Slusser #10 and Blaire Fleming #3 of the San Jose State Spartans call a play against the Air Force Falcons on Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
"From the stress and how anxious I was every single day, I just wasn't eating really at all," Slusser told Fox News Digital.
"I went from around 160 to 128 [lbs] in that one semester. It definitely isn't healthy for someone of my size to be that weight, and I ended up losing my menstrual cycle for nine months. So it was definitely severe."
Slusser is 5-foot-11.
People at home started to take notice of the issue.
"When I came home, some of my friends and family were very worried about me," she added. "Some of my friends were just like, ‘You always looked tired all the time. You always look dead…’ I was able to
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