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Reactions when revealing that you are a pole dancer vary. There are people who fully respect and genuinely support you in your endeavours and others who outright judge and reject you based solely on this one fact. Then, there’s everyone in between. It’s difficult to decipher when people are hiding their disgust underneath a mask of friendliness or if people who aren’t outwardly disparaging you simply have a false understanding of what pole dancing is…
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Supporting this feeling of success was the attention that I was getting from those around me, who endorsed my slimmer and fitter self. I rationalised controlling my food with the fact that I was liked more like this. I was achieving greater things and fitting into society's image of a woman. The dangerous underlying negative impact of my obsession with sport and nutrition was ignored. It went on for years.