"You got me, my nefarious scheme to help you regain the ability to breathe properly has been revealed," she says, only partly joking. She just wants to keep the people she cares about from suffering unnecessarily! Is that so much to ask? (Don't answer that, because the answer is yes.)

"We've got so much time to spare, I figure that it might be time to stop letting a decade of ballet training go to waste."

Despite what her mother may claim, Elle never hated doing ballet. She just hated going to ballet class, especially once she got taller and started filling out more.

Dancing can be fun, and even when it isn't, it's still movement and grounding herself in her body. She can probably use more of that.