In 2014, Gold became the first American woman to win the NHK Trophy title on the Grand Prix Series circuit and holds the record for the highest short program score ever recorded by an American woman (76.43) which she achieved at the 2016 World Championships in Boston.

[4][5] Gracie's fraternal twin sister, Carly Gold (named after their father), is younger by 40 minutes and also competed in figure skating.

[8] She attended ninth grade at Glenwood High School in Chatham, Illinois, before switching to online education through the University of Missouri.

[10] Gold has been open about her mental health struggles, including her treatment for anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.

"[14] She was featured in The Weight of Gold (2020), an HBO Sports Documentary which explores "the mental health challenges that Olympic athletes often face.

The public ruling revealed that the man Gold alleged to have violated her was Australian figure skater Brendan Kerry.

She said that during her days of competitive figure skating, her agent told her to hide her sexuality, believing that her coming out would be detrimental to her career.

[23] Gold started skating at age 8 after attending a friend's birthday party at her local rink in Springfield, Missouri.

[24] She then began training with Amy Vorhaben and Max Liu before changing coaches to work with Alexia Griffin.

The next season she competed on the junior level but finished sixth at the Midwestern Sectionals and failed to qualify for the national championships.

She qualified for the 2012 U.S. Championships at the junior level, where she won both the short and long programs to win the gold medal.

[30] At her first senior U.S. Nationals, she placed ninth in the short program and first in the free skate, winning the silver medal overall with a score of 186.57 points.

At the 2013 World Championships, she placed ninth in the short program, fifth in the free skate, and sixth overall setting a new personal best total score of 184.25 points.

At the 2013 World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Gold placed third in the short program and third in the free skate to finish third overall, setting a personal and season best score total of 188.03 points.

After the event she traveled to El Segundo, California for a week-long tryout with Frank Carroll at the Toyota Sports Center.

Gold began her season at the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event, winning the bronze medal behind Russians Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Alena Leonova.

She qualified for her first Grand Prix Final, but withdrew on December 4, 2014 due to a stress fracture in her left foot.

Gold was assigned to two Grand Prix events, 2016 Skate America and the 2016 Trophée de France.

In the free skate, she earned a score of 108.24 and helped Team North America win the bronze medal.

At 2016 Skate America, she placed third in the short program with a score of 64.87 behind American Ashley Wagner and Japan's Mai Mihara after a fall on her triple flip.

[citation needed] Her struggles continued at the Tropheé de France; she scored a combined total of 165.89 for 8th place, the worst Grand Prix finish of her career.

[45] According to Lindsay Crouse, a writer with The New York Times, Nike had a pattern of pushing the young women it sponsored to lose excessive amounts of weight.

[11] She wrote that pressure from Nike's coaches helped to trigger Gold to show disordered eating so profound that she considered taking her own life.

[46] Gold had been assigned to two Grand Prix events, the 2017 Cup of China and the 2017 Internationaux de France, both of which she withdrew from in October due to ongoing treatment for anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.

[48] After rumors that she would be returning to the sport, it was announced on June 28, 2018 that Gold was assigned to compete at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup.

[51] Gold announced her withdrawal from the free skate via Twitter saying it would benefit her mental health to leave because of her failure in the short program.

Videos taken by her coach posted on Instagram showed that she had begun practicing jumps without the harness and was successfully landing them.

The ISU decided to run the 2020-2021 Grand Prix based mainly on where skaters training locations were to limit international travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Figure Skating Championships, Gold again landed a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination in her short program and placed 5th.

Later, she was named the 2014 Sportswoman of the Year by the Los Angeles Council, and received an award in March 2014 during the L.A. Sports ceremony.