I just want to get right to the point with my problem with Kendall Jenner and her Vogue España video. And I want try to explain this from my perspective- a dancer’s perspective. It’s insulting first of all. My love, my passion for dance isn’t something for Kendall to compare to wanting to feel like a kid again. What does she know about dance? What does she know about the literal blood, sweat, and tears that I have put into this sport, (because yes dance is not only an art but also a sport)? What does she know about the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months, years, of training I have put in? And the feeling of being on stage- one of my favorites in the world. Nothing else matters when I am on stage performing. The only way I can describe the feeling of performing on stage is pure euphoria. And then there’s the feeling when you get back into the dance studio after being on break. That first class you take. That first plié you do in ballet class. Your body just does the movements naturally because it knows that’s what it was created to do. What does Kendall know about that?

Dance is something that I more than love, it is part of who I am. And the fact that Kendall gets to put on a leotard, ballet shoes, a tutu and jump around is disrespectful. It’s disrespectful because of what she's representing. She’s not representing what it’s like to be a kid, but instead, she’s trying to act like a dancer. Except….she’s not a dancer. She doesn’t know about all of those things I mentioned earlier. And it’s unfair and insulting for her to put on that leotard and bounce around at that ballet barre pretty much diminishing what I and other dancers work at almost every day. And it bothers me so much because dancers just don’t get enough credit sometimes. People say things like dance is easy or, dance isn’t really a sport or, dancers aren’t strong, and all of that is just pure lies. But what Kendall’s video and the photoshoot she did in pointe shoes *rolls eyes* proves is that anyone can pick up a pair of ballet shoes, put a leotard on and call themselves a dancer, and that’s just not true. It takes dedication, training, and heart. All I’m saying is I don't post a picture on Instagram and claim to be a model so I don't get why Kendall gets to put on a pair of pointe shoes and act like a dancer.