Anorexia

Anorexia is a stereotype that many people associate to ballerinas. However that stereotype is usually wrong. To be a dancer you don't have to be anorexic. Actually dieting isn't really encouraged in our company because the dance teachers fear that we would take it to the extreme. One dance teacher does encourage it though but she is rather larger herself. I believe that she encourages us to be skinny just because she can't be. Every time someone loses a few pounds she comments about how good that girl is looking. Most of the older girls don't like it when she comments about others weight because we have seen how anorexia has affected other girls. We have had one girl who has had to take a whole semester off after she had lost about twenty to thirty pounds. I would think that after that has happened to one girl that everyone would learn from her mistakes but I am wrong. Thursday everyone comes to dance thinking that it was going to be a normal day but we were give some awful news. One of the freshman girls had to drop out of dance because she was anorexic and was going to have to be treated. This affected our whole company because now she was going to have to be replaced in all of the dances. That's not what we cared about though we couldn't believe that she wasn't going to be in the company anymore. I just can't imagine that a person would feel so bad about themselves that they would feel the need to starve themselves. I don't have to worry about me though because I would never starve myself for dance. Starbucks is amazing!!!