A Pilates instructor with cerebral palsy has gone viral for pushing back on TikTok bullies.
to others — specializing in a modified version for people with disabilities — is a strong advocate for minority communities, and adores Billie Eilish.
"I was saying to a friend yesterday, I think people were almost competing to leave the meanest comment that they could to see if I would respond to it," Myers tells TODAY.com."People say, 'I would never go to you because you're fat and you don't look like how a Pilates instructor should look. I get that every day."
"I think maybe 20% of my following might be for Pilates. And then the rest, they either"hate follow" me or they follow me from people stitching my videos and stuff," she says.Myers says that her goal is not to prove that she can fight back at bullies, but to ultimately prove that anyone can be anything they want to be, regardless of what the non-believers have to say. And in Myers' case, it's being a Pilates instructor.
“I’m not even kidding. The next day I went to my Pilates class and the studio owner said to me, ‘How’s work?’ And I said, ‘Oh, they dumped me. I don’t know what I’m going to do.’” Myers recalls. "I knew right away, from the second it clicked — I said, I am going to teach the disability community. I’m going to show up for the disability community, and I am going to serve this underserved and underrepresented community in the health and wellness industry," Myers explains.
She also notes that, from the beginning, all she wanted was for minority groups, especially those with disabilities, to feel included in the practice of Pilates — and maybe even inspire some of those people to become instructors themselves.
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