Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

All you can do is be your best self. I'm representing more than just me. I think everyone should be like that.

It's time to write our own story.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.