Janette Manrara

Once I...

Left strictly to start presenting It Takes Two.

I wasn't on my legs eight hours, nine hours, ten hours a day.

So my body and then also I gave birth.

So that really changed my body as well.

And I realized more than when I was in my 20s and my 30s, I love my body.

You know, in a different way, not necessarily how I look, but how I feel in it.

Do I feel strong?

Do I feel flexible?

Can I move the same, you know, as much as I possibly can the same way that I used to?

And I do.

And that just, that is my relationship with my body, you know, more than anything else.

Yes.

And we're all beautiful.

I turned 18 and the TV show very kindly was like, we love you, but, you know, we can't use you for the kids program anymore.

But I got the bug.

And at the time, the gentleman that would do the dance part of the musical theater program opened up his own dance school.

His name was Manny Castro.

And Manny basically came to me and my parents at the time.

I was like, look, your daughter is very talented and I think she could dance professionally.