Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Fallen Olympic figure skater and doctor Debi Thomas is now living in a bed bug-infested trailer park where she's penniless and begging former fans for money, she revealed in a new interview. 
  
 The 48-year-old former athlete has hit rock bottom nearly 30 years after becoming the first African American to win the women's title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she told Iyanla Vanzant on the relationship expert's "Fix My Life" series. 
  
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 "(I feel) frustrated," the once-trailblazing Thomas says before breaking down in tears in the emotional episode that aired Saturday on the Oprah Winfrey Network. 
  
 The two-time U.S. national champion and 1988 Olympic bronze medalist turned to the renowned life coach after "crippling life challenges" from two divorces left her family broke and forced her to shut down her medical practice in Virginia. 
  
 Debi Thomas skates during The Caesars Tribute in 2010 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Jonathan Fickies/Getty Images for Stargames) Debi Thomas performs at the women's competition in 1988 in Calgary at the Winter Olympic Games. (JEROME DELAY/AFP/Getty Images) Debi Thomas skates during The Caesars Tribute in 2010 in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the photo on the left. She performs at the women's competition in 1988 in Calgary at the Winter Olympic Games in the photo on the right. 
  
 A desperate GoFundMe page she started about 10 months ago failed to raise even a quarter of what she had hoped. 
  
 Thomas is now living in a run-down mobile home in the Appalachian Mountains with her fiancé, who has admitted to having alcohol and anger issues, and his two children. She lost custody of her 13-year-old son. 
  
 "You got to a point where you couldn't afford to do anything other than live in a trailer. Is that what I'm hearing you say?" Vanzant asks before ripping into Thomas for only feeling "frustrated" at her heartbreaking circumstances. 
  
 "Not sad, not angry, not ashamed?" the TV host asks. 
  
 Fallen Olympic skater Debi Thomas breaks down as she asks life coach Iyanla Vanzant to help turn her life around. (Oprah) 
  
 "No," Thomas responds. 
  
 "Not guilty that you've got a man, two kids and a bedbug infestation in a trailer," Vanzant says. "Frustration is what you feel? Nothing else?" 
  
 Thomas starts to cry and shakes her head as Vanzant digs deeper, according to a short clip. 
  
 "This is what I know: You're living in a trailer in the Appalachian Mountains and your son ain't with you!" she shouts. "You're raising somebody else's children! So, you can tell me whatever you want to tell me. Telling yourself the truth is important." 
  
 Debi Thomas and her fiance, Jamie Looney, started a GoFundMe page to ask fans for help fixing their financial struggles. (Debi Thomas/via GoFundMe) 
  
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 The Poughkeepsie, New York native pursued a medical degree after graduating from Stanford University in 1991 and soon after became an orthopedic surgeon. 
  
 Thomas lays out a list of ambitious prospective projects she had hoped to complete in the fundraising page that collected about $2,000 out of the $10,000 goal. One of her plans was to star in a reality TV show. 
  
 "What we need now is help keeping our heads above water until we can make our dreams a reality," she pleads in a video posted on the GoFundMe page. 
  
 The episode is aired on Saturday at 9 p.m. 
  
 Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails privacy policy Thanks for subscribing! ||||| From the time Debi Thomas was a young girl, she wanted to grow up to become two things: a renowned figure skater and a practicing physician. She did both. 
  
 In the 1980s, Thomas captured the world's attention from the moment she got onto the ice. While studying for her engineering degree at Stanford University, Thomas won both the U.S. and World Championships. She soon set her sights on Olympic gold. Though her stumbles at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary cost her first place, Thomas took home the bronze and became the first African-American athlete to medal at any Winter Olympics. Then, after a successful figure skating career, Thomas went on to fulfill her second dream. She became a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, eventually opening up her own private practice in Richlands, Virginia. 
  
 Today, however, Thomas' successes seem worlds away. 
  
 In between the Olympics and the World Championships, Thomas got married, but says the relationship crumbled after just three years because her husband felt lost in the midst of her popularity. As with her professional stumbles at the Winter Games, Thomas considered this personal stumble to be a failure. Then, more failures: As a physician, Thomas says her high expectations led her to go head-to-head with colleagues, and she was let go from two jobs. Though she had never really wanted to open up her own practice, she did. That's when another divorce led Thomas to lose her nest egg, she says, and she soon had to close her private practice after two years. 
  
 Thomas is currently broke, jobless, twice-divorced and living in a bug-infested mobile home in a trailer park with her fiancé and his two sons. She even lost custody of her own 13-year-old boy, and her fiancé struggles to control both his alcohol use and his anger. Thomas knows it's time to turn her life around, so she asks life coach Iyanla Vanzant to help her face some harsh truths on a path toward healing. 
  
 Because Thomas' own trailer is so disorderly and infested with bed bugs, she and Iyanla meet in Iyanla's RV to have a frank conversation about how Thomas' life dissolved into its current state. 
  
 "You got to a point where you couldn't afford to do anything other than live in a trailer. Is that what I'm hearing you say?" Iyanla asks. 
  
 "Yeah, I guess that's about right," Thomas admits. 
  
 Iyanla asks the 48-year-old how it makes her feel to live in a trailer. Thomas' answer shocks her. 
  
 "[I feel] frustrated," Thomas says. 
  
 "Frustrated?" Iyanla repeats. "Not sad, not angry, not ashamed?" 
  
 "No," Thomas responds. 
  
 "Not guilty that you've got a man, two kids and a bedbug infestation in a trailer?" Iyanla continues. "Frustration is what you feel? Nothing else?" 
  
 Thomas shakes her head, and Iyanla gets ready to share the harsh truth she believes Thomas needs to hear. 
  
 "This is what I know: You're living in a trailer in the Appalachian Mountains and your son ain't with you!" Iyanla shouts. "You're raising somebody else's children! So, you can tell me whatever you want to tell me. Telling yourself the truth is important." 
  
 Iyanla's work with Debi Thomas airs on this weekend's finale of "Iyanla: Fix My Life," on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9 p.m. ET on OWN. 
  
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 How Carmelita Jeter willed herself to Olympic gold 
  
 The crisis athletes face when leaving professional sports 
  
 Robyn Roberts' journey from star athlete to news anchor 
  
 Also on HuffPost: ||||| This cause has been developed as an emergency fund for Dr. Debi Thomas, her fiancé, Jamie Looney, and their family to restore financial stability after severe sudden financial losses over the past couple of years associated with a combination of financially crippling life challenges. This assistance will help cover expenses while they complete their promising projects currently in the works.Planned projects include: "Coal Country - A Diamond in the Rough" – by Jamie Looney; cause for socioeconomic rehabilitation of the coal mining communities of the Appalachian mountain regions. "Can We Go Nowhere Any Faster?" – Reality TV show which will first be introduced as an online YouTube channel program and later be produced for television once the funds become available.“Can We Go Nowhere Any Faster?” show inspired merchandise. ||||| This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail |||||
Student:
Debi Thomas is living in a bug-infested trailer in the Appalachian Mountains, broke and unemployed, the Huffington Post reports. But it wasn't always like this. Three decades ago, Thomas was a champion figure skater. She won both the US and World Championships and became the first African-American athlete to medal at the Winter Olympics. After her figure-skating career ended, she became a certified orthopedic surgeon. Then things changed. She says two failed marriages cost her her nest egg, and she had to close her private practice after only two years. She also lost custody of her 13-year-old son. Now the 48-year-old Thomas is stuck in a mobile home with her fiancé, who has issues with anger and alcohol; his two sons; and a swarm of bedbugs, the Huffington Post reports. According to the New York Daily News, Thomas was reduced to begging fans for money through a GoFundMe page set up 10 months ago. "What we need now is help keeping our heads above water until we can make our dreams a reality," she states in a video on the page. One of those dreams: a reality show. But she and her fiancé raised less than a quarter of the hoped-for $10,000. Instead, Thomas has worked with a life coach for the reality TV series Iyanla: Fix My Life on OWN, the Huffington Post reports. (This athlete gave up her spot at the Olympics to her twin sister.)