Lindsey Vonn doesn't want her sports star boyfriend Tiger Woods to overshadow her accomplishments, according to a report in The New York Times.

The Olympic skier has been mentioned more than ever in the tabloids since she began dating Woods. And Vonn is a regular at her boyfriend's golfing tournaments, while recuperating from a severe knee injury she suffered back in February. But she doesn't want to be dismissed as another attention-grabbing trophy girlfriend.

"Some people seem to forget that I'm not just Tiger's girlfriend," Vonn told the Times. "I'm actually a successful athlete. I'm Lindsey. I have my own career and my own life."

Vonn said she planned to return to her life of skiing in September, granted her knee is totally healed. The injury is one of several topics Vonn said she discusses with Woods, who suffered the same knee injury in 2008.

"He's had A.C.L. surgery, so right now I talk about my rehab," she told the paper. "He knows what I'm going through. The guy won a U.S. Open without an A.C.L."

Vonn went on the say life with Woods has been an adjustment, referring to the spotlight that follows Woods.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me," she said. "But wherever he's around, we're living in a fishbowl. I didn't quite know what I was getting myself into. It's weird. But it's just something I have to deal with. He has his job, and I have mine. I just have to get used to it."

Vonn seems to be handling her new lifestyle pretty well, saying she and Woods even make fun of some of the reports they read in gossip magazines, even referring to a recent account that claimed a furious Woods kicked her out their house.

"That was funny; we joked about that," Vonn said. "Another story said that he wanted kids and I didn't, so I was moving to Pakistan. Where do they get these things?

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