Amanda Beard

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.