Advice for Baby Strippers; if I Can Do It, Anyone Can.
I am the worst blogger ever! Let me just start by saying that I've had time for absolutely nothing but work and kids. I think I may have had a margarita sometime in the last two months; and that'd be the extent of my "social life". I'm an agoraphobe & exotic dancer. I have major social anxiety but I love the stage. I have degenerative arthritis in my back, scoliosis, but you can find me climbing a pole and walking around it with my feet on the ceiling on any given Friday. How?? Discipline, self motivation, and yoga! Sitting? Bad. Standing in one spot? Bad. Wearing 7" platforms and doing acrobatics? What back pain?? That answers about 8,000 questions. So how does someone with a list of ailments, aged 32 (33 this year), and complete cynic handle such a physical & considerably mentally draining career? For younger girls the whole, "I'm young and cute" thing works, for a while... Realistically every dancer makes what we call "new gi