Because the ballet tag features too many people of only one body type. Let’s not pretend you need to be a certain weight to be able to perform fouetté en tournant.
Beautiful
This is for my mom, who told me when I was seven years old that I was too fat to be a ballerina.
Wow. I had body image issues for years partially due to doing ballet for a decade. This is wonderful.
Also, it’s sweetly ironic because Russia’s most famous ballet company is called the Bolshoi Ballet—the Big Ballet.
(Source: catofwinterfell, via farawaymooncall)
