Social Media: What's Up With Her?

[Dot]

Given her lapse in form, I wonder what Sean would have said if the camera recorded her first PR. Or what he said after seeing the next one.

And why is Twit training with someone else already? Has Sean gotten tired of her?

[SevenCostanza]

11 hours ago, Ketzel said:

Whitney begins by complaining that she achieved a Personal Record squatting that she was anxious to show off to Sean, only to be let down by her camera which didn't record this moment in physical achievement.

So I guess if it's not filmed it doesn't count.   Every step, every effort must be recorded and praised.   She's still a giant toddler, I can't wait for her crap show to end.

[Pachengala]

14 hours ago, Ketzel said:

Pissy commenter does not give up, "different body sizes and different (dis)abilities have slightly different form.”

Okay, I know I’m repeating myself but this pushes my buttons. OBESITY IS NOT A DISABILITY. It is a lifestyle choice with a fix. Fat activists comparing it to actual disabilities as an attempt to legitimize it PISSES ME OFF. And don’t even get me started on handicapped parking permits given to people who are fat. Ugh! 

[Colleenna]

2 hours ago, Pachengala said:

OBESITY IS NOT A DISABILITY. 

It is also NOT similar to race or sexual orientation. Those are things that you can't change, and discriminating against people or bullying them because of it is IMMORAL. Fat activists want to make "fat" a protected class like race or sexuality. Nope nope nope, not having it. And I'm fat. 

[3girlsforus]

Does Whit seem jigglier in this last video than usual? 

[princelina]

On 9/11/2019 at 1:24 PM, TurtlePower said:

That’s not teaching “dance”, it’s Nightclub 101 and doesn’t require “teaching” from a can’t-actually-dance, morbidly obese, delusional Whitney.

Stand and wiggle. Shake your ass.  Touch yourself. Wave your arms. Flap your hands. Repeat. 

Then kill some time by forming a circle and making everyone take a turn "dancing" in the center.  I hate that.

[3girlsforus]

So who is the better dancer?? 

Edited September 14, 2019 by 3girlsforus

[Gramto6]

It doesn't work for me. ☹️

[Yajmele]

21 hours ago, Ketzel said:

Whitney in the gym again. She's posted an instagram video taken at the weightlifting gym, where she was being trained by Sean Rigsby's wife? girlfriend? business partner? Tayler Harris. Whitney begins by complaining that she achieved a Personal Record squatting that she was anxious to show off to Sean, only to be let down by her camera which didn't record this moment in physical achievement. Tayler, somewhat blurry in the background, seems to be suggesting Whitney go a little heavier and tape THAT PR.  So the next scene is Whitney squatting 92 kilos ( about 200 lbs.**) five times. Her form is all wonky again, but Tayler, doing an impressive imitation of Jessica, is all "good job!" while Whitney shoves the bar back on the rack and screams "Let's fucking go!!" Tayler posts a picture of Whitney at Werk with the caption, "Love seeing this woman kicking ass and attacking her Personal Best every week!"

Interestingly, a couple of Whitney fans responded by praising her effort, but criticizing her form in no uncertain terms. Said one, "I am so excited and proud of her for lifting heavy!!(best exercise out there) I just hate seeing people not correcting form before getting hurt. She leans to the left on every squat and her back will let her know it before long."

Said another, "Next let’s work on that form so you don’t hurt yourself!! Good job!

In response to the usual pissy reaction that Whitney already has a trainer and doesn't need their opinion, the comeback was "yes she does have a trainer and she should help her with her form instead of adding more weight... shes going to throw her back out."

Chiming in, the other knowledgeable commenter added, "at least someone gets it lol!! Weight shouldn’t be the only goal, correct form should come before PRs! 👏🏻"

Pissy commenter does not give up, "different body sizes and different (dis)abilities have slightly different form."

Knowledgeable commenter is not having it. "bad form is bad form is bad form and it will cause injury no matter your size 🤦🏼‍♀️"

**I find this hard to believe, but so she says . . . And now, a day later, she has corrected her post to 92 lbs, not kilos. Slightly more credible.

Before I got to the bottom, I was about to say, “There’s no way she’s squatting 92 kilos.”  Then the correction was made and yeah, 92 lbs is far more believable, even for a set of 5. That bar is rolling up on her neck dangerously, and she’s cruising towards a cracked vertebra.  I can’t see her feet, but she has a lean forward, which means she’s not got her weight properly in her heels. 

Tayler is the other half of the business at Heavy Metal Barbell.  I don’t think she and Sean are dating, but I do know she’s an ex-MuscleDriver USA denizen like Sean is. 

Can the girl not get a bra that fits?  I know she has money.  There are big girl sports bras that will fit and keep her from being in danger of giving herself a black eye every time she comes up from a squat.  Jeez. 

[SevenCostanza]

1 hour ago, 3girlsforus said:

So who is the better dancer?? 

How cute! She already has more moves than Twit has, I'll sign up for her class.

[Dot]

Twit's latest plug for NBSdance is from her trip to the Philippines last year. I don't understand why she thinks this -- or the cruise dance class video -- is a good advertisement. One fan points out that all she knows is 3 dance moves.

BTW, another fan said nbsdance means something quite different in the United Kingdom. Anyone know what that is?

[Gramto6]

@3girlsforus can you post another link? This one doesn't work for me. I really want to see this little cutie dance!!

Edited September 14, 2019 by Gramto6

[Colleenna]

2 hours ago, 3girlsforus said:

Does Whit seem jigglier in this last video than usual? 

Which vid are you talking about? The weight lifting one? I don't know about jigglier, but she looks like she has 4 butt cheeks in the weight lifting one. 

[Colleenna]

21 minutes ago, Dot said:

One fan points out that all she knows is 3 dance moves.

They're being generous. I count 2. 

[Spenser]

1 hour ago, Dot said:

Twit's latest plug for NBSdance is from her trip to the Philippines last year. I don't understand why she thinks this -- or the cruise dance class video -- is a good advertisement. One fan points out that all she knows is 3 dance moves.

BTW, another fan said nbsdance means something quite different in the United Kingdom. Anyone know what that is?

Dot, it’s “officially” spelled noBSdance.  A nob in British English means penis; it’s also used as a crass insult (“You’re such a nob!”).  So, in British English, the name means someone who is a “dick” dancing.

[3girlsforus]

8 hours ago, Gramto6 said:

@3girlsforus can you post another link? This one doesn't work for me. I really want to see this little cutie dance!!

Did this work? 

[3girlsforus]

9 hours ago, Colleenna said:

Which vid are you talking about? The weight lifting one? I don't know about jigglier, but she looks like she has 4 butt cheeks in the weight lifting one. 

Yes I meant the weightlifting one. She just seems to jiggle more than usual and yes she looks like she has 4 butt cheeks. Maybe those leggings are more stretched out and don’t hold things “together” as well as some of the others. 

[kattybiz]

11 hours ago, Yajmele said:

Can the girl not get a bra that fits?  I know she has money.  There are big girl sports bras that will fit and keep her from being in danger of giving herself a black eye every time she comes up from a squat.  Jeez. 

Good lord yes.  I'm not a small girl, and I have one from Glamorise.  Was $50.  

[Gramto6]

8 hours ago, 3girlsforus said:

Did this work? 

Yes! Thanks so much! What a cutie!

[cherenkov]

On 9/12/2019 at 11:12 PM, Ketzel said:

**I find this hard to believe, but so she says . . . And now, a day later, she has corrected her post to 92 lbs, not kilos. Slightly more credible.

TIL that despite being less than half Whitney's weight, I rep over 40 pounds more than her on squats and that's with proper form. That is how unimpressive her lifts are. By power to weight ratio this would be me (140 pound body weight) PR'ing a squat with poor form at nearly ten pounds less than an empty bar.

This is what she's promoting as being a badass weight lifter? I'm glad she banned me from her IG for calling out her shit form.

[Colleenna]

I saw this and thought of Twit.....

[Dot]

This Charlotte location has been featured in several of Twit's recent posts. If she's renting an apt, is this a room in the apt? Or is she usurping a common area in the apt bldg?

Todd looks especially gangly & weird in this video. At least one fan asks why anyone would spend money "learning" this routine. And, again, it's pointed out that Twit only knows a few dance moves.

[3girlsforus]

9 hours ago, Dot said:

This Charlotte location has been featured in several of Twit's recent posts. If she's renting an apt, is this a room in the apt? Or is she usurping a common area in the apt bldg?

Todd looks especially gangly & weird in this video. At least one fan asks why anyone would spend money "learning" this routine. And, again, it's pointed out that Twit only knows a few dance moves.

I have no idea why anyone would pay for this. Let’s say you have a overwhelming urge to be a z-list porn star so you desperately need to learn Whit’s three moves. All she’s doing is providing videos of her shaking her ass and that’s her version of ‘teaching’. So why would you pay for that. All she ever does is posts videos of herself shaking her ass. You can get that for free. And no one wants it even when it’s free. 

[Elizzikra]

11 hours ago, Dot said:

This Charlotte location has been featured in several of Twit's recent posts. If she's renting an apt, is this a room in the apt? Or is she usurping a common area in the apt bldg?

Todd looks especially gangly & weird in this video. At least one fan asks why anyone would spend money "learning" this routine. And, again, it's pointed out that Twit only knows a few dance moves.

It looks like a workout room/yoga room in an apartment or maybe a gym. I like the floor.

[3girlsforus]

I wonder what Ryan thinks of the new dance endeavor. Whit has a limited following who have limited funds. I think the majority of her fans won’t sign up for both the dance and the workouts. So she’s splitting her followers between two financial options, cutting Ryan out of a portion of her fans that could have signed up for active but signed up for dance instead. 

[TurtlePower]

11 hours ago, Dot said:

This Charlotte location has been featured in several of Twit's recent posts. If she's renting an apt, is this a room in the apt? Or is she usurping a common area in the apt bldg?

Todd looks especially gangly & weird in this video. At least one fan asks why anyone would spend money "learning" this routine. And, again, it's pointed out that Twit only knows a few dance moves.

Right? “Who wants to learn this from Todd and me”: Who wants to learn what? A basic routine you might see during the timeout of a middle school basketball game?  And Todd does look stiff, not fluid.

Why would anyone want to pay for that?!? 

[Hana Chan]

I would barely consider what Whitless is doing as "dancing". Standing in place while shaking your ass, turning in place and shaking your ass some more and moving one step in a circle isn't exactly the kind of challenging choreography that I would expect to see from someone passing herself off as a professional dancer/dance instructor.

And that's not to say that there aren't some plus sized ladies out there with some serious moves. This gal, for example, is probably close to Whitless's size but does a hell of a lot more.

[3girlsforus]

So her IG story says ‘swipe up to dance with Todd and Me’. If  I swipe down will she go away forever?

[Dot]

1 hour ago, Hana Chan said:

I would barely consider what Whitless is doing as "dancing". Standing in place while shaking your ass, turning in place and shaking your ass some more and moving one step in a circle isn't exactly the kind of challenging choreography that I would expect to see from someone passing herself off as a professional dancer/dance instructor.

And that's not to say that there aren't some plus sized ladies out there with some serious moves. This gal, for example, is probably close to Whitless's size but does a hell of a lot more.

Near the end of her routine, this woman performs Twit's "signature back roll." Gee. Does that mean Twit has never had an original move in her "dance career"? (The woman can do the move; Twit can't any more.)

[Nicmar]

1 hour ago, Hana Chan said:

I would barely consider what Whitless is doing as "dancing". Standing in place while shaking your ass, turning in place and shaking your ass some more and moving one step in a circle isn't exactly the kind of challenging choreography that I would expect to see from someone passing herself off as a professional dancer/dance instructor.

And that's not to say that there aren't some plus sized ladies out there with some serious moves. This gal, for example, is probably close to Whitless's size but does a hell of a lot more.

That dancer can move plus do a split.

[Dot]

4 hours ago, 3girlsforus said:

I wonder what Ryan thinks of the new dance endeavor. Whit has a limited following who have limited funds. I think the majority of her fans won’t sign up for both the dance and the workouts. So she’s splitting her followers between two financial options, cutting Ryan out of a portion of her fans that could have signed up for active but signed up for dance instead. 

And Twit just announced to a fan who asked that anyone in nobsactive who signs up for the dance grift will get a discount on the nobsactive fee.

[3girlsforus]

1 hour ago, Dot said:

And Twit just announced to a fan who asked that anyone in nobsactive who signs up for the dance grift will get a discount on the nobsactive fee.

Oh wow — I would really love to be a fly on the wall when Ryan hears about that. 

[Gramto6]

3 hours ago, Nicmar said:

That dancer can move plus do a split.

I think in her mind Twit thinks she is doing just what this talented dancer is doing. Problem is, it is only in her mind!

[3girlsforus]

2 hours ago, Gramto6 said:

I think in her mind Twit thinks she is doing just what this talented dancer is doing. Problem is, it is only in her mind!

I think this is exactly right. And I think this is how Whitney has been her entire life. She’s a legend in her own mind. I look back at the dance videos she’s posted from her pre-massive weight gain days when she was mid teens and supposedly on her way to a dance career. To me she looks like a recreational dance student with mediocre experience. She doesn’t even look like a competitive dancer, just a hobby dancer. But she sees someone who could have gone to Juilliard.   

[Colleenna]

1 hour ago, 3girlsforus said:

I think this is exactly right. And I think this is how Whitney has been her entire life. She’s a legend in her own mind. I look back at the dance videos she’s posted from her pre-massive weight gain days when she was mid teens and supposedly on her way to a dance career. To me she looks like a recreational dance student with mediocre experience. She doesn’t even look like a competitive dancer, just a hobby dancer. But she sees someone who could have gone to Juilliard.   

Could that be the result of parents who always told her how great her performance was (even though it was horrible) combined with participation ribbons and trophies? Or is this the Dunning-Kreuger effect?

[3girlsforus]

19 minutes ago, Colleenna said:

Could that be the result of parents who always told her how great her performance was (even though it was horrible) combined with participation ribbons and trophies? Or is this the Dunning-Kreuger effect?

I am hardly an expert but I think it’s more a function of her psychology than her parents. Plenty of parents encourage their kids and say ‘you did a good job’ when their kid did a good job only relative to their capabilities and their kids don’t end up narcissistic bitches. Glenn and Babs were definitely supportive parents but I’ve never gotten the impression they were filling her head with ideas that she’s a world class dancer. In fact Babs has shown disdain for her dancing.  Participation ribbons and trophies are definitely a problem too. People with real talent don’t fall for that kind of accolade. They know it’s meaningless. But people like Whit don’t care if an accolade means something. 

[Dot]

16 minutes ago, 3girlsforus said:

Glenn and Babs were definitely supportive parents but I’ve never gotten the impression they were filling her head with ideas that she’s a world class dancer. In fact Babs has shown disdain for her dancing.  

Glenn goes way beyond "supportive," both then & now. Then, he pulled out his camera every time Twit so much as twitched. Now, he does such things as keep a diary of her MBFFL days. Glenn raised a flaming narcissist. He is to blame for some of her inflated ego.

[3girlsforus]

12 hours ago, Dot said:

Glenn goes way beyond "supportive," both then & now. Then, he pulled out his camera every time Twit so much as twitched. Now, he does such things as keep a diary of her MBFFL days. Glenn raised a flaming narcissist. He is to blame for some of her inflated ego.

Maybe, but Whitney is 35 years old now. Nothing about her personality or behavior is Glenn’s fault anymore. He could tell her she’s queen of the world every day and she’s still old enough to be able to separate reality from parental fawning. Most teenagers know the difference. At 35, there is no excuse. I suspect she meets psychological requirements for a personality disorder, but even that isn’t an excuse. 

[TurtlePower]

15 hours ago, 3girlsforus said:

I think this is exactly right. And I think this is how Whitney has been her entire life. She’s a legend in her own mind. I look back at the dance videos she’s posted from her pre-massive weight gain days when she was mid teens and supposedly on her way to a dance career. To me she looks like a recreational dance student with mediocre experience. She doesn’t even look like a competitive dancer, just a hobby dancer. But she sees someone who could have gone to Juilliard.   

This. I also saw a “meh” dancer who needed a lot of work—it’s like she put in just enough to label herself as a “dancer” and then stopped progressing. She wants accolades, but she doesn’t want to put in the effort (and the proper training format still doesn’t work in her mind). 

And she’s still like that. We saw her “training” for her races with very little time before the event, which led to epic fails with lots of howling and crying. Instead of months of training, she put in a couple weeks.

I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her, to think like that and then somehow be surprised that her efforts weren’t enough. “But, I trained. I ran circles in the gym once!”

[Mahamid Frauded Me]

[Colleenna]

You know, she hasn't mentioned her "boyfriend" lately.... no pictures. 

[3girlsforus]

1 hour ago, Colleenna said:

You know, she hasn't mentioned her "boyfriend" lately.... no pictures. 

Filming is over so he’s in the Whitless protection program. 

[Hana Chan]

On 9/17/2019 at 11:46 AM, TurtlePower said:

I also saw a “meh” dancer who needed a lot of work—it’s like she put in just enough to label herself as a “dancer” and then stopped progressing. She wants accolades, but she doesn’t want to put in the effort (and the proper training format still doesn’t work in her mind). 

What burns my buns is that Whiney expects all kinds of praise for "dancing" just because she's the size of a subcompact car. Like it is some kind of tremendous accomplishment that she's still fairly mobile at her weight (which would be shocking given her age if she wasn't). This is like having the dumbest kid in the class expecting a gold star just because he didn't eat the paste that afternoon.

Dancing is a skill and even real professionals take classes all the time. We never see Whiney actually trying to learn and become a stronger dancer (or a better instructor). We just get stunts to prove how "awesome" she is. Whether it's throwing her into a belly dancing class so she could "jiggle her meat" or bringing in a choreographer so she won't totally embarrass herself in a dance battle, she never sticks with anything longer than the end of an episode. It's all just cheap stunts.

[Vivigirl10]

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Participation ribbons and trophies are definitely a problem too. 

Can anyone explain what Whit's early dance training consisted of?  Was she in a true, technique based dance school, or the ribbons, trophies and stunt based competitive dance world, or a school dance team?  If she were in a traditional, ballet based dance academy type of environment, no teacher worth their salt would have been blowing any smoke up her untalented ass.  Competitive dance would likely allow her to gain false visions of her next stop being Broadway or ABT.  But truly, anyway you cut it and whatever program she came out of, her personality disorder blows any scrap of talent completely out of proportion in her own mind.  Very curious about her background if there's any info out there.    

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Dancing is a skill and even real professionals take classes all the time. We never see Whiney actually trying to learn and become a stronger dancer (or a better instructor).

So very true!!

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She wants accolades, but she doesn’t want to put in the effort 

Preach it!

[Dot]

@Kiki620, about all I know of Twit's early training is that by h.s. she thought of herself as not just a dancer but a choreographer. She met Heather when Todd recruited Twit to choreograph his & Heather's h.s. production of Grease.

Most of Twit's inflated opinion of herself as a "dancer" seems to date back to h.s. tho she claims to have practically danced her way out of Babs' womb.

Maybe @Ketzel can once again unlock the Sacred Text to tell us what Twit says about her earliest training.

[Colleenna]

1 hour ago, Dot said:

@Kiki620, about all I know of Twit's early training is that by h.s. she thought of herself as not just a dancer but a choreographer. She met Heather when Todd recruited Twit to choreograph his & Heather's h.s. production of Grease.

Most of Twit's inflated opinion of herself as a "dancer" seems to date back to h.s. tho she claims to have practically danced her way out of Babs' womb.

Maybe @Ketzel can once again unlock the Sacred Text to tell us what Twit says about her earliest training.

Im not @Ketzel (and I don't play her on the Interwebz) but if I had a guess, it would be that as a young lass (can't imagine her ever being wee), her parents enrolled her in the usual tap and ballet classes that little girls are usually subjected to. Not really rigorous training.... more the "everybody gets a spot in the recital" type of thing. I have friends with a daughter in one of those. She's not particularly talented, but she's better than 90% of the other dancers. But they ALL take part in the recital.

[3girlsforus]

I have a hard time believing Whitney was involved in any kind of significant, competitive program. She doesn’t have the temperament. First of all, kids who are in highly competitive programs and training at that kind of level have incredible work ethics. They are dedicated and have focus and determination. They also have a realistic understanding of their abilities. They may be exceptionally good, but they know when people are better. They are hard on themselves. They don’t like fake accolades. They want to earn their awards. 

Whitney has none of these qualities. I don’t know exactly how dance works. My kids were gymnasts, but the concept is similar. Young kids start out all excited and full of ideas that they are going to be great. They fall off fast. By the time they are in high school they are either hard-working, dedicated, talented or they’ve quit. I imagine it’s quite similar for dancers who are at the top and heading toward dancing careers or the like. 

[Colleenna]

Today Twit has posted a vid of her "boxing" with Ryan. (A) They aren't actually boxing. Ryan has on the hand pads used for training someone, rather than boxing gloves (B) Twit's reaction time is so slow --- primarily because of her size --- that if she WERE actually boxing, she'd have been knocked down in the first 5 seconds (C) The video is spliced together in order to make it appear that she lasted more than 12 seconds. 

[Ketzel]

1 hour ago, Dot said:

@Kiki620, about all I know of Twit's early training is that by h.s. she thought of herself as not just a dancer but a choreographer. She met Heather when Todd recruited Twit to choreograph his & Heather's h.s. production of Grease.

Most of Twit's inflated opinion of herself as a "dancer" seems to date back to h.s. tho she claims to have practically danced her way out of Babs' womb.

Maybe @Ketzel can once again unlock the Sacred Text to tell us what Twit says about her earliest training.

Your wish is my command, Oh Mighty Dot! 🙂

Whitney says that from her babyhood, where she jiggled in the car seat to the rhythms of Motown on the radio, she displayed an "intrinsic" love of dance. "I instinctively understood the nuances of how to move my body to a particular kind of music because I could feel it.  [italics in the original]."  Once she heard a song's melody, an "electric current" would make her bones vibrate  and "like a conduit, I had no other choice but to channel it through movement."

When she was six years old, (1990) her parents signed her up for "ballet, tap, jazz and gymnastics at the Cindy Gill School of Dance."

She claims that due to her "natural ability and unnatural enthusiasm" she "quickly became Miss Cindy's star student." She repeatedly had the opportunity "to dance in every dancer's most coveted spot: front and center." Unfortunately, from that spot she could also see that she was a lot taller and heavier than the other girls, and so began her obsession with her weight. And in the summer of her fifth grade year, she decided not to dance anymore.

Three or four years later, as a freshman in high school, she had lost some weight and auditioned for a high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar. She was cast as a dancer and the choreographer mentored her and eventually accepted her into the Honors Advanced Dance Class that she taught at the Weaver Center (a specialized curriculum in performing arts for high school students). Whitney admits she was at first surprised to be accepted because, although she "had the passion, the drive, the natural talent and the basic skills [she] had acquired in childhood," she was "miles behind " in "the more technical elements of leaps and turns."  After that, she auditioned for a community theatre production of Carousel, was cast as an ensemble dancer and also became a pet of the choreographer because she "worked harder than anyone else." 

While it seems Whitney spent a lot of time in the studio,, she was being taught choreography,  not dance fundamentals. At some point (in her junior year?) she was referred to a new teacher at the Weaver Center named Leslie, who asked her if she was being taught by any local professional. When she learned Whitney was not taking regular classes, she "invited [her] to take a class with her senior competition company." This turned out to be a technical ballet class and Whitney who had "never been adept at ballet," struggled hard to keep up. Also, the other members of the class were taller and thinner than she was and, once again, her "thick thighs and lack of technique threatened to shake [her] identity as a dancer." (Whitney doesn't say so, but competitive dancers of high school age would probably have been doing at least half of this class en pointe and there is no indication she'd ever graduated to pointe work at Miss Cindy's.) She does say she was dancing en pointe after a few months in Leslie's class,"albeit wobbly and poorly.")  At some point during this time was the rescue of Todd's high school production of Grease, where she choreographed and played Cha Cha. She was also invited to teach a hip hop class for children and adults (why am I thinking "mommy and me?) and discovered she loved to teach.

That's what she has to say about her dance background. At this point, she was taking Adderall and binging and purging to keep her weight down, and once she arrived at college, her weight went out of control and she stopped dancing for ten years. She then took one ballet class where she claims the teacher said she would have been an amazing dancer if she weren't so fat, so she dropped the class. She took one Zumba class that she really liked because there wasn't any structure -  the teacher danced and the class followed. When it was over, the teacher told her she was a great dancer and should be a Zumba teacher, so she took a one day certification class, and got a license to teach Zumba.

[Colleenna]

7 minutes ago, Ketzel said:

Your wish is my command, Oh Mighty Dot! 🙂

Whitney says that from her babyhood, where she jiggled in the car seat to the rhythms of Motown on the radio, she displayed an "intrinsic" love of dance. "I instinctively understood the nuances of how to move my body to a particular kind of music because I could feel it.  [italics in the original]."  Once she heard a song's melody, an "electric current" would make her bones vibrate  and "like a conduit, I had no other choice but to channel it through movement."

When she was six years old, (1990) her parents signed her up for "ballet, tap, jazz and gymnastics at the Cindy Gill School of Dance."

She claims that due to her "natural ability and unnatural enthusiasm" she "quickly became Miss Cindy's star student." She repeatedly had the opportunity "to dance in every dancer's most coveted spot: front and center." Unfortunately, from that spot she could also see that she was a lot taller and heavier than the other girls, and so began her obsession with her weight. And in the summer of her fifth grade year, she decided not to dance anymore.

Three or four years later, as a freshman in high school, she had lost some weight and auditioned for a high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar. She was cast as a dancer and the choreographer mentored her and eventually accepted her into the Honors Advanced Dance Class that she taught at the Weaver Center (a specialized curriculum in performing arts for high school students). Whitney admits she was at first surprised to be accepted because, although she "had the passion, the drive, the natural talent and the basic skills [she] had acquired in childhood," she was "miles behind " in "the more technical elements of leaps and turns."  After that, she auditioned for a community theatre production of Carousel, was cast as an ensemble dancer and also became a pet of the choreographer because she "worked harder than anyone else." 

While it seems Whitney spent a lot of time in the studio,, she was being taught choreography,  not dance fundamentals. At some point (in her junior year?) she was referred to a new teacher at the Weaver Center named Leslie, who asked her if she was being taught by any local professional. When she learned Whitney was not taking regular classes, she "invited [her] to take a class with her senior competition company." This turned out to be a technical ballet class and Whitney who had "never been adept at ballet," struggled hard to keep up. Also, the other members of the class were taller and thinner than she was and, once again, her "thick thighs and lack of technique threatened to shake [her] identity as a dancer." (Whitney doesn't say so, but competitive dancers of high school age would probably have been doing at least half of this class en pointe and there is no indication she'd ever graduated to pointe work at Miss Cindy's.) She does say she was dancing en pointe after a few months in Leslie's class,"albeit wobbly and poorly.")  At some point during this time was the rescue of Todd's high school production of Grease, where she choreographed and played Cha Cha. She was also invited to teach a hip hop class for children and adults (why am I thinking "mommy and me?) and discovered she loved to teach.

That's what she has to say about her dance background. At this point, she was taking Adderall and binging and purging to keep her weight down, and once she arrived at college, her weight went out of control and she stopped dancing for ten years. She then took one ballet class where she claims the teacher said she would have been an amazing dancer if she weren't so fat, so she dropped the class. She took one Zumba class that she really liked because there wasn't any structure -  the teacher danced and the class followed. When it was over, the teacher told her she was a great dancer and should be a Zumba teacher, so she took a one day certification class, and got a license to teach Zumba.

So Twit has eyes in the back of her head that enabled her to see that she was heavier than the girls BEHIND HER....(after all, she was "front and center.")

And although I've never had kids, I think pretty much EVERY baby jiggles and wiggles to music. They even make up their own dances.