A plus-sized ballerina has opened up about her experience as a dancer on Friday’s episode of This Morning.
Trixie Kixx fell in love with the dance when she was just two years old, went into full time training at 16, and is now a ballet teacher.
But unfortunately her time as a ballet dancer hasn’t always been easy, as she has always faced comments about her size.
Recalling some tough moments in her younger years as a dancer, Trixie told Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary: ‘When I was auditing for dance colleges, because I’d moved into more sort of dance and musical theatre, but still doing ballet, when I was auditioning for colleges I was getting comments like “Fantastic audition”.
‘”What a great day, you’re a beautiful dancer, but you know you’ve got a huge weight problem”.
‘I was about a size 12 back then. “You know you’ve got a huge weight problem. But you know that don’t you. Your thighs are too overdeveloped.” I had to nod along.’
A plus-sized ballerina has opened up about her experience as a dancer on Friday’s episode of This Morning
Trixie Kixx (pictured above) fell in love with the dance when she was just two-years-old, went into full time training at 16, and is now a ballet teacher
Trixie said: ‘So I pushed through it and I didn’t go to the colleges that made those comments, I went to different colleges and then ended up going into the world of burlesque, which is all about female empowerment, all about body diversity’
She continued: ‘It was mad and that was just in the audition process, let alone just going to those colleges.
‘And that was dance and musical theatre colleges, we know it is so much worse in ballet schools. We’ve heard the personal accounts!’
Alison wanted to know if the comments affected her self confidence, to which Trixie confessed: ‘I definitely saw it and felt it. But I was quite stubborn. I was raised to be stubborn and get what I want.
‘I wanted to be a dancer. I was never going to be a professional ballerina, but I loved ballet. It is a really strong core of dance, whatever type of dance you want to do.
‘So my stubbornness, I just ignored it, and I wanted to push through it.
‘I wanted to be the change. It sounds really cliché, but you have to be the change! There has to be that physical representation.
‘On stage, on social media nowadays, it’s such a massive thing.
‘So I pushed through it and I didn’t go to the colleges that made those comments, I went to different colleges and then ended up going into the world of burlesque, which is all about female empowerment, all about body diversity.
Unfortunately her time as a ballet dancer hasn’t always been easy as she has always had comments about her size
‘I just got even more passionate about it.
‘I pushed through. I didn’t go to the colleges who made those comments.’
Many rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to praise Trixie for appearing on the show to talk about it.
One said: ‘#thismorning the dancer just interviewed has incredible posture, dance whatever your build, great for physical and mental wellbeing.’
‘This girl is beautiful. ‘
‘I can’t see nothing wrong with her if its something she likes doing ignore what people say.’
‘I love Swan Lake. Ballet ain’t about size, it’s about expression. ‘
‘#ThisMorning My Mothers best friends daughter went to a very famous ballet school. The pressure to stay stick thin was immense. Her periods stopped, her hair fell out. When she was older, married and couldn’t conceive.’
Trixie, who boasts 4,937 followers on Instagram, loves to share her body positivity on social media.
Many rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to praise xx for appearing on the show to talk about it
In a recent video, she wrote: ‘I take classes with dancers in their 20s to their 80s and enjoying ballet with no pressure, just living for the art form and it’s physical and mental benefits are just gorgeous.’
Meanwhile other This Morning fans raged ‘this show has completely lost its way’ as a man made a number of plants SING in a ‘nonsensical’ music demo – and begged ITV bosses for ‘an urgent revamp’.
Alison and Dermot stood and looked bewildered while they watched the guest perform.
During the performance, the man said: ‘It’s quite a common misconception that the plants or mushrooms are singing. It’s not the case, they’re not the singer, they’re the instrumentalist.
‘So actually they are playing sound rather than hearing the sound of the plant.’
However, some viewers were not impressed by the segment and one even claimed ‘this show has completely lost its way,’ while someone else branded the act ‘nonsensical’.
One fan took to X and said: ‘Yesterday we had a woman who married a river, today a man who records plants ‘singing’! #thismorning are really spoiling us this week.’
‘What on earth is my eyes being assaulted with? No wonder this country is a mess broadcasting this rubbish @thismorning.’
‘That explanation went over everyones heads #ThisMorning.’
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