By Fattening Up A Bit, Ballerinas Are Saving Their Art And Themselves

Deirdre Kelly: “Medical experts have, since the 1970s when Balanchine-inspired eating disorders first started decimating the ballerina population, quite forcefully determined that ballet’s tyranny of thin is detrimental to dancers’ health. … Ballerinas today are again embracing the breasts and hips which first made them objects of desire way back in the day.”