Being a full-time mother is one of the biggest jobs in the world; it's like another career for me. I love every moment of it - even the challenge of making cupcakes.
When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her costume, and then I started doing photo shoots in bomber boots, and it wasn't seen as the done thing.
I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.
I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.
The hardest thing about 'Strictly' is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.
I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.
A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
I know, for me, dance did inspire me. Not just in how I feel but that confidence of being able to hold myself and come into a room and just feel comfortable with my body and how I stand and how you present yourself and just how you wear clothes, even.
Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.
I hate exercise when it's a regime, but I love a bit of dance, just moving the whole body.
I can't imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.
I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.
As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.
I am damn good with money.
I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.
If I had a caterer that lived at home, it would be fabulous!
I'm not a big cook at all, but anything easy and quick, like pasta, I'm up to. My husband cooks for me because he finds cooking relaxing.
My main vice is Herta frankfurters - it's amazing that they stay fresh for ages. They're not very healthy, but they are my treat.
We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.
I do feel blessed to have small ears - I've never felt self-conscious when my hair is swept back. My feet are a different story - I grew up being painfully aware of them because they are so long.
