Jane Doyle has made her name as a star newsreader, but as a child she wanted a very different career…
“When I was a little girl I wanted to be Margot Fonteyn,” Jane told Pilko on FIVEAA. “I wanted to be the next prima donna ballerina from Australia.”
“I did practice my jetes up and down mum and dad’s lounge room…
“Now I’m sorry, with these thighs and the girly bits at the front — I was never going to be a ballerina.
“I say this to young people… we tell our kids they can be anything, which isn’t true. They can try everything…”
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Pilko disagreed:
“You’d have been sensational. You’d have needed a strong bugger to lift you up and do the twirls.”
Jane: “He would’ve needed to be 6’3 and about 100kgs… Remember the hippos in Fantasia? That would’ve been me.”
