Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet – A Powerful Memoir from the School of American Ballet and the Women Who Survived It

by Alice Robb

When the writer Alana Massey shrank to a size zero in her early twenties, she was at first delighted by the flood of male attention that rushed in. But she soon realized that, as much as men appreciated her new body, they were turned off by her refusal to deviate from the routine that kept it small.