Misty Copeland

I was rebelling.

It was meeting my husband.

Olu and I met when I was just 21 out at a club.

Yeah, yeah.

And...

It was meeting him and I guess someone who just seemed so steady and grounded and had such a clear sense of self, even though he was, I don't know, he was 26, I think, at the time when we met.

You know, I didn't grow up really understanding how to take care of my body.

Like I stumbled into ballet and happened to be good at it.

And then I became a professional within four years.

Everything happened really quickly.

And I didn't feel like I had a really good base in terms of like just how to take care of myself as an athlete and treat my body with respect and fuel it.

And he completely changed my mindset.

You know, he was a former athlete.

He played basketball, but he was raised vegetarian and just had just such a very like holistic approach to how he took care of himself.

And I trusted him and he just completely changed the way that I looked at myself as an athlete and as an artist and that it wasn't just something I was doing and I was good at it, but like I have to invest the same way I do in my training and these other aspects of myself and how I'm preparing.

Yeah, you know, he definitely came into my life.

I guess it was in that same time when I discovered Raven.

Raven Wilkinson.

Raven Wilkinson, yes.

And was trying to understand how I can be...