An Olympic Medalist Sleeping in Her Honda

Ronda Rousey won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Olympics, and the weeks after the Games turned out to be harder than the competition. According to a Fox News report, she returned home to her mother's house while she looked for work and a place to live. After an argument with her mother, she moved into her 2005 Honda Accord and stayed in the car until she found a flat.

While she was living in the car, she held waitress jobs and worked the front desk at a 24-Hour Fitness gym. The article is clear that this was a short episode. In her words, she was only really there for about a week or a week and a half, and she found a place to live a few days after moving into the car. It does not give her age.

Rousey said the experience pushed her. There is no better way to get motivated than if you are homeless, she said, and she added that she was never more motivated to find a place than then. Looking back, she also said that a car and a gym membership can be a functional way to live, since you can sleep in your car and shower somewhere else.

She later sold the Honda on eBay, and the final buyer paid more than 21,000 dollars. Rousey, described in the article as a struggling Olympic bronze medalist at the time, went on to become the UFC women's bantamweight champion, the highest-paid fighter in the UFC and, in the words of the report, the biggest star in the organisation's history. She is regarded as the first women's champion in UFC history.