You have to stay in shape for dance. I don’t want to be too skinny, but I don’t want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
Some people are born skinny, and that’s just the way it is. You can’t point a finger at them and say they’re ill or anorexic. It isn’t fair to people born that way.
I was low-key abusing myself. The idea of being skinny became something that was most appealing to me. Even if you watch ‘The Real,’ from season 1 to season 4, I was always 100 lbs. I started to really work hard to stay petite and to not gain weight and to stay sample size.
People might think that because I’m skinny and tall, I’m fragile. But I always knew I wasn’t. And it’s comforting to know that I can throw a proper punch if I have to.
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There’s a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that’s rubbish. You have to be strong, so eating regularly and healthily is essential.
Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.
My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don’t consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.
Skinny jeans don’t work on someone, like me, who’s a size 12 and has got child-bearing hips.
Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I’m skinny, I don’t have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.
I’ll fly Away took place in the 50’s and 60’s in America’s South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.
