Elizabeth Smart feels “excited” and “liberated” after entering and winning a bodybuilding competition . The kidnapping survivor opened up about her surprising bodybuilding journey during a visit to “CBS Mornings” on Monday. “I feel good. I feel excited,” Smart, 38, told host Gayle King. “I feel almost liberated to a degree because I think for so long I wanted to be taken seriously, I wanted whatever I had to say to matter, I wanted to feel like I was respected.” Elizabeth Smart (pictured here on “CBS Mornings” on Monday) feels “liberated” after entering and winning a bodybuilding contest. CBS Smart opened up about her bodybuilding journey during an interview with Gayle King for “CBS Mornings” on Monday. CBS She continued, “And I also feel like, by doing this and putting this post out there, I feel liberated because I can be more than just one thing. I can be a bodybuilder. I can feel beautiful and sexy.…