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Dancing with chronic pain NERIDA’S SECRET BATTLE

Dancer and choreographer Nerida Cortese shares her tips for living a healthy life.

You’re a Dancing With the Stars icon and a dance teacher, so you are obviously very fit. How do you look after your body?

I was born with one leg shorter than the other and I didn’t find out I had scoliosis [sideways curvature of the spine] until I was 17. I was dancing and in a lot of pain, and couldn’t breathe properly. I still get a

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