Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.
Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!
You learn not to take things personally, but it can be hard.
Our parents made a lot of sacrifices because dancing is not the cheapest sport. The dresses are expensive, so my mum learned to sew, and she started a catering company to pay for the lessons and the travel abroad for competitions.
I'm so thankful for dance because if I had grown up with just the bitterness of the very hard childhood we had, and I'd never 'experienced the love of the dance world, then I probably would have been a very sad person.
You'll always have someone attacking you in some way. But it's weird from someone who's never met you.
I know how it feels to work hard and to work with a celebrity.
There is a word in German, called gerechterweise, which means fairness. I need to be fair, it's just the part of my personality.
I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.
I'm not the kind of judge where you get away with everything, because I know my basics. But I'm the judge where, if you emotionally capture me, then you've got me, I'm in your team.
In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.
I celebrate life every day. I just wake up and say, 'Thank God. I have a bed. I have my husband. I have my baby.'
I always say to my friends and my family, 'Let us live in a space that if we never see each other again we don't have bad energy there.'
The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.
I think a person of colour in any situation should be qualified to do the job. Not just because of the colour of their skin.
In South Africa there are many women with a large chest. There you are not embarrassed when you visit a lingerie store to get a bra fitted.
People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.
People usually first ask me about 'Let's Dance' and then they ask me about my decollete.
I've learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it's mostly a reflection of themselves.
One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.
