After a falling out with her mother over dropping college to pursue dance, Lopez called her dance teacher and slept on the studio couch with nowhere else to go.
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Sean brings up the detail from his intro: Lopez slept on a dance studio floor. She fills in the backstory. She worked in a law office through high school, was strong with numbers and taxes, and was on the lawyer track — her parents were very much counting on that. She started one semester of college and immediately began skipping class to go to the dance studio. Her mother's position was absolute: you are crazy; we did all this so you could go to college. Her father asked, 'Did you have a dream?' and she said yes. A tumultuous few months later, she called her dance teacher and asked to sleep on the studio couch. He said yes. Now, from a new house with stables and horses for her twins who got into every college they applied to, she reflects on that little girl and says: you did this. All of it. From holes in your sneakers.
Lopez worked in a law office through high school, was strong in numbers and taxes, and was on track for law school. She had done one semester of college before a dream convinced her to stop attending classes and go to the dance studio full-time instead. Her parents thought she was crazy.
Before pursuing dance and acting, Lopez worked in a law office during high school and was on track to apply to law school, with a natural aptitude for numbers and taxes.
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