{"id":1589,"date":"2016-08-05T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2016-08-06T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:29:37","slug":"nikki-webster-fame-made-me-grow-a-thick-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikki-webster-fame-made-me-grow-a-thick-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Webster: &#8216;Fame made me grow a thick skin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mamamia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mamamia-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mamamia-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mamamia.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you believe it\u2019s been 16 years since she won our hearts at the Sydney Olympics?<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Fletcher <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 16 years since Nikki Webster won us over with her amazing performance at the Sydney Olympic Games opening ceremony back in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics to the Daily Mail, the 29-year-old says that he time in the spotlight made her \u201cgrow up a lot quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing experience and journey for me and continues to be because it was such an amazing moment for our country\u2026 being Australian and being able to represent my country,\u201d she reveals.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the backlash the now mum-of-one faced after her public profile grew, she says it made her become \u201cthick skinned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Nikki turned 18 she celebrated by stripping down for the covers of men\u2019s magazines FHM and Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt made me grow a thick skin. It made me grow up a lot quicker in terms of I knew what I wanted, and what I wanted was to prove a lot of people wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess it gave me a lot of life experience,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m not angry at anyone for it, it is what it is and it happens to a lot of people in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Nikki is a mum to her two-and-half-year-old daughter Skylah, and is a dance teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/au.be.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/a\/32245193\/what-nikki-webster-is-up-to-now\/#page1\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it\u2019s been 16 years since she won our hearts at the Sydney Olympics? Jennifer Fletcher It\u2019s been 16 years since Nikki Webster won us over with her amazing performance at the Sydney Olympic Games opening ceremony back in 2000. But speaking ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics to the Daily Mail, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikki-webster-fame-made-me-grow-a-thick-skin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikki Webster: &#8216;Fame made me grow a thick skin&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-60"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}