Did anyones mother force them to take ballet lessons?

Question:I'm a guy and I was forced into ballet lessons. Now I love ballet and am training to dance professionally. Did this happen to anyone else?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm a guy and I was forced into ballet lessons. Now I love ballet and am training to dance professionally. Did this happen to anyone else?

I asked my mom to enroll me in lessons, and now she hates driving me to them, spending money on them, driving me to get pointe shoes, and paying for them and any other stuff I need. She is also going to complain about taking me to auditions and paying for a summer intensive and the 5 pairs of pointe shoes I'll need, even though I've saved up $1,100 to help pay for it. Let's just say that her and I don't get along very well. The only reason she lets me do it is because I remind her every day about how much I love it and how depressed I would be if I couldn't dance. I just wish she wouldn't act like it's such a pain for her.

Sorry, I just wanted to vent a little.

My mom started me in lessons when I was three. Um...would it be "forced" if you're too young to know any better? (lol) I stayed in ballet school until I was 18. Guess I turned out to love it, too.

no, i wanted 2 do ballet, so my mum just encouraged me, but never forced with me.

no! but i started taking ballet lessons because it came from me not someone else but I'm glad that u love ballet now! good luck =]

i wanted to join so i did
but now my mom doesnt let me quit
but i dont care
i like it

Quite the opposite, actually, I desperately wanted to take ballet and my father (whose mother was a ballet and general dance instructor) coldly told me I would embarass him and the family, and would look like one of the hippos in a tutu from Fantasia and refused to let me dance.

I wasn't even overweight! And I've always had a dancer's grace. I could never figure out why he so coldly denied me my dream. Even if his motives were seeing what other girls went through to dance and not wanting me to go through that, it backfired. I was then convinced I was too fat to dance and developed an eating disorder.

I now still wish I knew how to dance and I thoroughly enjoy attending ballet performances. My eyes light up and it's like I'm on stage with them. But my problem is that I didn't just develop one eating disorder, I cycled through 3 and am now very overweight, and the only ballet instructor in our town called my best friend who is a size 6 a fat cow, and almost kicked her out of troupe. I can only imagine what she'd say to me. So I just go on watching from the sidelines and dreaming.

I'm very happy for you that you ended up loving dance and even gone so far as to make it professional! That's wonderful!