I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.