Almost every woman has a complex relationship with her body—how it looks, how it changes over the decades, what it endures over a lifetime. That’s no different for women who are athletes, but they also deal with pressure to perform at an elite level, the need to blaze trails in male-dominated spaces, and professional and public scrutiny that can be objectifying and shaming.

These are not issues that Paralympian sprinter Marissa Papaconstantinou, Toronto Tempo general manager Monica Wright Rogers and Olympian shot-putter Sarah Mitton shy away from. With the same boldness they show in competition, these Canadian sports stars are vocal about the thorniest aspects of living and competing in a woman’s body, from menstruation to the motherhood penalty to simultaneously hearing your body is too big and too small.