Usually dancers, of all types are thought of to have a thin body. Ballet dancers, like a rubber band, flat all over and flexible. Hip hop are allowed to have a big butt but the rest of their bodies are usually tiny.  And so on.. But dancers are usually skinny. However I was watching Dancing with the Stars and one of the dancers, Marissa isn’t skinny at all. But she is one of the best and has made it so far. She could actually be better than the skinny girls and I think it’s really great that a heavy girl is proving the stereotypical world wrong!

I remember on the news a few weeks back, that a girl who weighed about 140 pounds had won a beauty pagent and it was a huge deal because she wasn't all tiny like all of the other girls.  I think that's a good message to be sending out, because you don't have to be skinny to be successful.