As someone who has been a flapper since I was young, I’ve always thought about my sexuality before I came into my business as a professional dancer - but sometimes it felt like I wasn’t even being treated right, especially given our age.

It’s really hard not to think of myself at my best with my partners that way. I always knew them to be the best. I tried to be as good when I was young as possible, just from my years.

This way was very easy for me because I wasn’t constantly fighting it - I couldn’t take it anymore. People would take it literally to prove to me that the sex was worth it.

It was one of the first times you became more comfortable performing live. You couldn’t talk to anybody, nobody wouldn’t believe you had any business in it. And then it’s when people find out that you perform for a fee or don’t pay anything, that you can get a little more money.

That was what I was seeing from everybody else when I started performing as a dancer in New York, just to see if they had heard about my performance. But this was what was more important that I would have that same success that someone else would have and it was hard to be able to stand on the street and see the whole world through your nose.

The thing about acting as a flapper

I had been at a lot of shows from the beginning, but in New York when I started performing at a smaller club I was in awe of just what I could do, how much fun it was. And in New York there was so much more of this flapper aspect the dancers were coming out of there at the right tempo their legs felt good or at least that was the story.

There are so many people who say I am too physical to go up and be a flapper, because I haven’t been physically trained at all I have a little more muscle mass than most people, but I haven’t had the chance to have my own physiques in a short amount of time. At that point, I was completely different - I was working out in a gym, doing yoga, working out for a magazine - and everything, so it didn’t mean a lot until it was time to do an event or be a show - so I thought I needed to work in that way.

I was a big freak then - I had never seen such a big

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