Martine M This is the most accurate & articulate description I’ve come across! So very true. Thank you for this! 🙏

There is no imitation. There is practice. If you want to be able to bend: you practice. I practiced 2 hrs a day after classes at home. Every day. To be able to sit between two chairs and to have at least a straight line when you jump in a split. This is to show you that she probably practiced more than that when she was a kid.

She would have a talent for being a contortionist too

Rita Merkoci thats true

Gustavo R. Román Thank you!!! Exactly right. People don’t understand that a body like Svetlana’s is that of an athlete.

Exactly again!

i screamed internally when i saw that

Lol that was obvious, why would you even comment on that? And it's not even a rare thing to do, a lot of people can do that, like really a lot

Its means i love svetlana

@@diarraamoa1312 they know

They are also screaming "I'm American!" Lol. Most women outside of the "west/Anglo" world including Australia are usually thin by Western standards. On a side note, a lot has to do with jealousy. However, I really like Svetlana and Alina Somova. Different and personal styles.

I think she is only so skinny because she is such an amazing ballerina, which takes a tremendous effort and strength that it is almost impossible for her not to be skinny. It's like farmers in third world countries or miners being fat--impossible.

The lighter the body the less weight on the feet.

noredlion EXACTLY!!! Calm down she's quite healthy!

No they are NOT! No human being is supposed to look like that. Do male dancers look like that? NO! SHE IS TOO THIN AND SUFFERS WITH AN EATING DISORDER!

hhehehehehe

N-Nessie?

She is already 39 years old, she is leaner than before to maintain her performance.

1 over 5 ballet dancers has some eating disorder searching the "perfect ballerina's body". But not Svetlana. She's russian, that means she has a different bone structure, she's also "tall" (from an American view, for me, as a venezuelan, she's even a short person), that makes her even thin, but being a ballerina she is in a good weight

She's also 5'9'!

I’m 5’9” and I have a tiny bone structure (5 -1/2 inch wrists, for example). If I exercised on such a grueling scale as her, I have no doubt I’d eventually end up with a similar body type.

Twinkie ok

pereziana are you serious?!? Ballet a perfect environment for eating disorders. If you look at studies a large amount of ballet dancers either, have eating disorders, have engaged in dangerous behaviors to lose weight, or have been told to lose weight despite being a healthy BMI. Svetlana probably does not have a eating disorder. People with eating disorders can be extremely high functioning. We don't always just collapse like in the movies. I should know I've had a eating disorder for 3 years and dance 7+ hours per day. Know one knows cause they atribute my weight to "calories bunt while dancing". it would serve you well to do your research before you coment on mental disorders

of course

Ты тупой, молчи и не позорься

Learn to spell then

Ты кого учишь? Балерину? Ты серьёзно думаешь, что понимаешь хоть что-то? Задорнов был прав

Me too and a im a ballerina