Books about nastia liukin biography

Liukin is a gymnast, and a successful one—she medalled several times over at the 2008 Olympics. A writer, however, she is not.

I spent a good fifty pages trying to figure out what word best described the tone and finally came up with both 'sanctimonious' and 'holier-than-thou'.

I don't think for a moment that that's what she was going for, of course, and I have no idea what she's like as a person, but the book feels super try-hard: trying to be a role model, trying to sell her product (which is to say, trying to market herself as a motivational speaker), etc.

I suspect that there are two things going on here: first, for some reason it's self-published, which means that she didn't have the expertise of editors and so on (except for any she might have paid for) to help her shape the book.

I'm curious about that choice—she says at one point that lots of people had told her she couldn't write a book because it wouldn't be interesting enough, but I struggl