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to lose weight by ABT,
and I had no idea
how to handle that.
I mean, I never had
to watch what I ate.
Like, I had no idea
how to take care of my body.
It was just naturally
the way it was,
and it worked for ballet
until I hit puberty,
and then it all changed.
a lot of contemporary audiences
associate with ballet today
is strictly a modern phenomenon,
and it can actually
be dated to 1963,
when George Balanchine
was able to start creating
the ballet and the ballerina
according to a vision he had,
of a dancer.
Post Balanchine, you get
these very emaciated body types,
and you get no longer
a woman on the stage.
You get these
prepubescent girls...
flat-chested,
you know, encouraged not to eat
to the point of not being able
to menstruate...
and, you know,
that has created a huge,
I think, problem in ballet.
It literally
has killed ballerinas
and actually doesn't need
to exist at all.
It all kind of hit me at once:
moving to New York,
realizing I was the only
African-American woman
in a company of 80 dancers.
I felt like I was
sinking for a while.
I felt alone in a world
that had become my home,
and it gave me mixed feelings.
I was coming home at night
and just feeling
so bad about myself,
and I would call Krispy Kreme,
and they told me
they only delivered to...
to, like, big corporations,
so I was like,
"Okay, yeah, I'm a corporation.
Can I have
two dozen doughnuts?"
And they'd drop them off,
and I would eat
a dozen doughnuts
in one sitting.
I was overeating because I felt
so bad about myself.
I just started this pattern of,
like, feeling so ashamed
that I didn't even want to come
to class in the morning.
I didn't want to stare
at myself in the mirror.
of Misty Copeland
when she joined the company,
the corps,
and I would see her
in performances,
She had what you can't teach
and you can't learn.
She had stage presence,
and she had a fire
that the other corps-ians
did not.
Kevin McKenzie,
had said to me
from the very beginning
when I first mentioned
how much I admired Misty
that he felt she had
the talent to go the distance
and to go all the way.
The executive director
said to me,
"But there's an issue.
"We feel that she has
all this promise,
"but she lacks a bit of focus.
but she is doing some things
that stand in her own way."
They did something
unprecedented,
which is, they said to me,
"Would you please
take her under your wing?
"We would like you
to spend time with her.
"We would like you
to become her confidante...
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