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Jenna Dewan

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 3, 1980

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.

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I like to say, 'Once a dancer, always a dancer.' In everything - the way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk, the way you sit - everything is just, you've been trained a certain way your whole life, so it's a bit muscle memory.

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I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

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I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.

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I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

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Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

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Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

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I definitely believe in ghosts.

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I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

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Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

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

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I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

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Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

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There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

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

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In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

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I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

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I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

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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.

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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.

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