Lindsey's father, being a lawyer, helped. "As much as we fight," Lindsey said of her father, "I still would trust him with anything" (Meter).
Lindsey and Thomas had been inseparable since they met in Utah when she was 16 and he was a 25 year old Olympic skier. It was a shocker to many when they announced they were divorcing. "Everyone knows marriage is tough. But it just wasn't working, and it was making me miserable," said Vonn (People). "Nothing bad happened, but there was just unhappiness. That's the only way I can even describe it-unhappy. Divorce didn't fit my cookie-cutter image, but I got to the point where I said, 'I don't care if I ever win another race; I just can't live like this'" (People). Vonn was much happier without Thomas by her side for the first time in a decade. She set many new records (People).
Vonn explained how "the smiling woman seen on Olympic podiums, on magazine covers and in lucrative endorsement deals, was suffocating in a failing marriage and quietly battling depression" (People). "Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle," said Vonn (People). She kept up the "no worries" illusion in public by winning more and by bottling her emotions, feeling, "I'm a successful skier; no one is going to want to hear my problems" (People).
Lindsey Vonn is a very successful skier. She is one of the few world-class, four-event ski racers. She is known as the most successful female ski racer in American history and quickly gaining on "all time" status. Six weeks after Vonn turned twenty, Vonn won her first world cup victory in Lake Louise, Alberta (Bio.com). Since then she has earned sixty three World Cup titles. She is the only American woman to ever win downhill gold at the Olympics and the only American woman with four World Cup overall titles (U.