"I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!"

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I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.

— Vera-Ellen