Brabants explains that she was by no means “obese,” however as a substitute had an athletic construct that helped her as a dancer. Nonetheless, she struggled to exist in an area the place sure physique varieties had been idealized. She even confronted stress from lecturers to go to the fitness center and to eat “more healthy” in an effort to reduce weight.
“In highschool is when my physique began to vary much more. I simply did not match that good physique that everybody thought that you simply wanted within the dance world the place you needed to be stick skinny and like 6 toes tall to be thought-about a ballerina,” she says. “There was at all times a mould that I felt like I needed to match into, whether or not or not it’s longer or thinner legs. I continually wished to be one thing else as a substitute of simply embracing the place I used to be at and simply making an attempt to thrive with the physique that I had.”
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