""We were never allowed to weigh ourselves. We did not own a scale," the 31-year-old said. "I literally think the first time I weighed myself, it was probably when I was 19 or 20 and moved out of the house and I was at a hotel and there was a random scale there and I did it.""
""I'm really, really grateful for that. It felt like it helped me so much with body image growing up and even just now," Arnold said."
""If we were not at school or sleeping, we were at dance," she said. "We literally had dance longer than we were at school.""
Lindsay Arnold grew up in a household that did not own a scale and was discouraged from weighing. The first time she weighed herself occurred around age 19 or 20 at a hotel. Her father insisted his daughters not know or focus on their weight, which Arnold credits with supporting a positive body image through childhood and adulthood. Weight numbers are not considered a proper depiction of true health. Arnold and her three younger sisters had no assigned chores but were expected to keep their rooms tidy and pick up after themselves. Dance occupied most of their time, often exceeding school hours and leading to professional dance careers.
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