Zsuzsa Csisztu

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Zsuzsa Csisztu was born on February 15, 1970 in Budapest, Hungary. She is an actress, known for Hungarian Beauty (2003), Pizzás (2001) and Белые ладони (2006). She is married to Dr.Norbert Ketskés. They have one child. She was previously married to István Básthy.
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Hungarian Beauty

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Csisztu Zsuzsa-Fitness Center, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
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Dr. Christina Rahm talks with her long-time friend and colleague Dr. Zsuzsa Csisztu about her early days as a Hungarian artistic gymnast competing in the 1988 Summer Olympics, the current sports landscape, how socialism played a role in her life, and how she balances being a mother, a sports journalist, lawyer and leading voice in health and wellness.
Dr. Rahm [00:00:00] I’d like to welcome our guest today Zsuzsa Csisztu.
Intro [00:00:12] I hope you guys enjoy this episode of Scientifically Beautiful which is on the Life’s Tough, You can be Tougher network.
Dr. Rahm [00:00:22] She’s led the country of Hungary in numerous ways, not just in professional sports, but also as a journalist, also as a spokesperson for other women and other athletes. So we’re going to talk about how, even though to the world, she’s this beautiful, amazing woman, it has been tough to go through the things that she’s gone through, and we’re also going to talk about her health and wellness and how important it is and how she has gotten to where she is by the support from others, as well as her internal drive. So thank you so much for being on the call and the podcast. I can’t wait to ask you questions. How are you doing today?
Dr. Csisztu [00:01:00] It’s really an honor to join you on this podcast, and actually it’s been so nice that you have all the things that you have been telling about. I’m really honored. It’s fantastic to talk to you and you know, it’s been a couple of years that we know each other, and I’m really, really, really grateful that we had the chance to meet because I think it’s so important when you actually have the feeling that you find a soulmate, someone who has got the same sort of drive, the things and the same, you know, priorities to be a mother and in the same time, someone who loves her profession.
Dr. Rahm [00:01:42] I met you, a couple of years ago, actually more than a couple of years ago, but I think I met you in Hungary and then I started thinking, maybe it was Austria because I met your husband as well. He’s a doctor and I was working in the field of health and nutrition. He’s a famous doctor in your country and in Europe and Eastern Europe. And I will have the opportunity, hopefully to be able to do a podcast with him as well. But I was amazed when I met you and, you probably don’t know this, but people shared with me magazines that had you on the cover of them. You did not share that with me. I had no idea. So I want to start with this. I wish, you know, when I met you, I just liked you instantly and I thought you were his wife. And so I just was impressed at how you held yourself, how you presented yourself, the way that you acted and treated others. I would never have known you were famous or had been a child athlete and had all that attention. Honestly, I would never have known you just did not act like you had any… I think you didn’t act arrogant and all. You just acted confident, which I really respected about you. So I want to start and give the audience the ability before we get into even more the podcast to know a little bit about you. We are going to talk about you as a wife and a mother, but I’d like for you to go back and share with us your childhood and who you are and what you did. And then, of course, if you want to share things about how hard it was, that’s something we would love to hear too. But I’ll be asking those questions anyway. So you could just start with really telling us about yourself. I know everyone’s going to be extremely interested.
Dr. Csisztu [00:03:36] The best to my life is gymnastics and, you know, a high profile sport. When I was five and that’s basically when I started gymnastics and it was basically a way that I wanted to do gymnastics. I was very energetic, very flexible. My mother was a ballet dancer. She also did some gymnastics, but I would say there was no other choice for my parents but to take me to gymnastics because I was doing all these flips around that I was almost like dangerous for my kindergarten mates. So they said, OK, it’s better if we put her into the gymnastics, you know, the gym and then she can do whatever she likes. So basically, I really felt that this was my environment, the place where I should be. And of course, gymnastics, we know all that, you know, and especially American gymnasts are so famous; I mean Simone Biles is now the current number one star in gymnastics. I really wonder how she’s going to accomplish even higher goals in the Tokyo Olympics. But in my time, you know, Eastern Europe and Hungary was also in the top 10, the top six. So I think it was a good school. It was a very good environment to be in, you know, good coaches. But where you really started realizing that this is something more than an everyday play, you know that we can play around and we can do some flip-flops and, you know, just cartwheels. It was about the age of 14-15, you know, when the junior membership of the national team became reality. And then by this time we were, I would say practicing two times, three to four hours a day, almost seven-eight hours per day, six days a week.
Dr. Rahm [00:05:28] How old were you?
Dr. Csisztu [00:05:31] I was 14, 15, something like that. So I was just finishing elementary school, starting high school, basically. And you know what? You really had to decide when it was getting really tough: What is the next step; to give up or to keep going and to move forward with my goal, which would be, of course, participating in the Olympic Games? And I also have to tell you because, you know, our listeners might not be aware of that. In that era, back in the 80s when I was doing gymnastics, you know, in a politically socialist country, there was a big division between the two of us, the western world and the eastern world. So, for example, there was a huge, I would say, a real, real athletic tragedy, I should say, in my life. The 1984 Olympics, which was in Los Angeles, which was… I was supposed to be a part of the Hungarian national team. But because of the political situation, you know, the socialist bloc to which Hungary belonged back then, boycotted the Olympic Games, which was… which was… I still remember the day when I was standing on a couple of the beams listening to the radio when, you know, the anchor was actually announcing the decision of the political leaders of Hungary, you know, joining the Soviet Union is going to, you know, just to be told from the Olympic Game and stay, you know, away from the Olympics and we were really, really, you know, making a very huge effort to actually be in the best shape ever in our lives. And when politics steps in this today, you know, it’s also very difficult. And for me, it’s very, very saddening to see how sometimes and also in support of the Tokyo Olympics is also, I would say, has to face this kind of burden, this kind of difficulty because of the, you know, the, I would say, the effect of the pandemic. I really hope that this Olympic Games, even though it’s going to be now without spectators, this is going to be actually, you know, I would say, in a bubble without any spectators. But I still would believe that at least for the sake of the athletes, you know, it would be an Olympic Games that at least goes through because I can really remember what a real tragedy it feels for an athlete, but an outside reason, you know, people making decisions, you know, behind your back and above you, can really affect your life. So this was one of one of the toughest points of my life, but I kept on doing gymnastics. And of course, I went to high school and my parents were fantastic people helped me to come over and this sort of really difficult period. So I had my high school graduation and then I was really hoping to be a part of the national team for the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, which I actually made to be a part of the Hungarian national team. Besides that, I also participated in World Championships in Rotterdam, European Championships, which I, you know, finished in the first sixth and seventh. So the top, that always the top eight, the top six from Hungary and also internationally. But the Olympic Games, this is the goal of a professional athlete. You know, this is something that you really want to be a part of. So especially with that sort of a disappointment from four years before, of course, it was the greatest dream to be there in Seoul. And I made it and I finished in the eighth place in the Seoul Olympic Games, which was a fantastic experience. And after all these difficult years, I think it was, not just for me, of course, but for the whole athletic world. It was probably the first, I would say, real relief after two boycotted Olympic Games because Los Angeles was the second one for years, even before that in Moscow. The western world, you know, we tell them and then they didn’t participate, so I would say it was really finally the time when a melting pot came together and you could feel that’s kind of a real special atmosphere of the Olympic Games, which is not a world championship, which is not, I will say, a big world event, but an Olympic Games where you can meet other athletes, where you can cheer for some others, where you can really feel that that’s a huge international, you know, global event of the sporting world. Of course, many things have changed, unfortunately, since. So I would say the business of viewpoints and of course, the finances and many aspects of sports has been changing a lot. And I’m not even saying that this is a very nice way. How sport is evolving in this kind of, you know, under this kind of circumstances. But you have to understand, of course, that this is, I would say, one of the biggest areas of the whole entertainment business worldwide. Sports is probably one of the biggest business of the whole entertainment world. So after the Olympic Games, it was a very special opportunity that came across to my life. As I said, we were still just coming out of the socialist regime, you know, basically opening up to the West, you know, Hungary was going through a democratic change. So in 1989, one year after the Olympic Games, basically Hungary became a free country again, which gave the opportunity for me as well to sort of open up my view. And this fantastic opportunity came from the University of Minnesota to earn a university scholarship through gymnastics.
Dr. Csisztu [00:12:28] Which was something absolutely unimaginable, you know, before, for someone coming from behind the Iron Curtain, you know, someone coming from a socialist country that there’s absolutely no way to earn a scholarship in a western country, especially not in the United States. So, but I tell you, you know, nobody really believes and understands today that that was the era I would say, you know, the pre-mobile era. There is no mobile telephone. There was no communications like we are talking today. I was only writing letters and the classical telephone poles. So even to make the first steps and to organize and make a decision as a member of the Hungarian national gymnastics team to leave my country behind, that goal, and move to another continent and to be a university student in a completely new country, it was not just a culture shock. Of course it was. But besides that, it was, I would say, a challenge that I could never imagine, you know, how it really will become reality when I go there, so it was actually a very difficult decision. Of course, it was a great opportunity. But I was really afraid to take it, but I took it. So I I decided to be a part of the University of Minnesota gymnastics scene, and that gave me the opportunity to start studying there, as you know, and majoring in international communications and broadcasting. And that’s basically when my life, you know, started to, I would say, mount into the area where I’m at now. Ever since, this is basically journalism, broadcasting and sports and of course, ever since many, many, many other things. But the major structure of my career was basically communications and journalism.
Dr. Rahm [00:14:30] Well, so that led you, from what I’ve understood and what people have told me, and you’ve shared a little bit, to become a journalist and to be in the whole TV world. And you are—and I know this because I’ve been to Hungary numerous times, and I’ve been around people in your country—you became a celebrity in your country and we’ve shared that, you know, you actually shared with me that the country of Hungary will compensate their Olympic athletes because they want them to be there and they want to support them, which I actually love and I don’t know if every country is like that, but it was interesting you had that support, but yet you were driven to do all these other things. So, I love to hear how you took your hard work and success as an Olympic athlete and moved it into another world because, you know, I think in life, when life is tough and life is hard one of the things that people that are tougher than the bad things, you know, they take a step forward and they recreate themselves. They don’t feel sad, or maybe they do feel sad for a while—I know that when I made changes in my life, it’s sad to leave things. But if you can look forward to a brighter future, that’s a very positive, good trait. And that’s something I’ve noticed. And you, Zsuzsa, you are always looking for the ability to make another positive impact. So I’d love to hear how you transitioned, you know, and you shared with us that you went to another continent. I can’t even imagine how hard that was. I did not speak the language and to go and then have to be, you know, to transition to another world because especially from a world that’s a communist country and to a western world, I know it was very hard, but I’d love to hear how you went back to your country and then made a further
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