Alexander Alexandrov
She began taking gymnastics classes at the age of four in her hometown, Cincinnati, where she attended Seven Hills School. At the age of 13, she moved to Orlando to train at Brown's Gymnastics. When she was 16, her coach, Alexander Alexandrov, moved to Houston to open a new facility for Brown's, and Bhardwaj followed without her parents. Living alone in a Texas apartment, she began to party, smoke, and drink, and her gymnastics suffered.