"There was a point in my 40's where I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way I look right now...I examined my face in the magnifying mirror, and I looked at my body, and I cried and cried and cried...Then I said to myself, 'You're going to get old now. How do you want to do that?'
"I thought, 'I'd like to age like a dancer.' I want to keep my body in shape like that. I want to do the work. I like to dance and stretch. And I'm going to the gym..."
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