>>88569
TBF I don't think anyone doing eating contests and actually aiming to win put on a happy/excited face, we (the crowd in general but especially us here who get off to it) often forget they're doing it to win. Even if they're also doing it to put on a show, the show is better when they win so they're still going to put all of their physical energy into winning rather than fully enjoying the experience. It's not like other sports that have downtime to have players express themselves, or even to recover at all, it's constantly pushing your stomach and jaw to their absolute limits and beyond, and considering putting on a blissed out face at the taste of the food uses the same muscles as chewing, anyone trying to win in earnest probably wouldn't be so invested in doing so.
I just checked wikipedia, and apparently she's been doing this since 2012 and has four kids (and she's been marketing herself as a mother for a long while afaik), so it's hard to imagine she's strapped for cash. I think even if she started out of necessity, which I find hard to believe, if she wanted to stop she's had ample opportunity to bow out. I think she's having fun just as she says.
When you say you're a masochist, do you mean sadist? Masochist = your own pain, sadist = others' pain, and you seem to like seeing her in duress. Assuming you do, I'm not trying to say you're wrong and stupid and all that, just saying what I enjoy about the experience, because I also have a sadistic streak about stuffings. But I think I have it in a way where the pain is also enjoyable for the stuffer? Even if it's not enjoyable in the moment, she's opted into the experience of her own free will, is trying to be the absolute best she can, look back on the moment with pride, and if that comes with feeling literally as much pain as she can physically stand before she vomits, that's the shit that's hot to me, and probably to others.
To conclude this autistically long post, I sign my posts, but if you don't and you're
>>88346 and
>>88287, sorry I turned out to be a slightly different kind of freak as you.