When I arrive to chat with workout guru Tracy Anderson in Los Angeles, she tells me it's not just going to be the two of us.
Her kids, Sam, 16, and Penelope, 2, are home, and Penny needs to eat. So the trainer from Noblesville, Ind.—wearing jeans, a ruffled shirt and sneakers—breast-feeds her daughter while we talk. "I do not nurse until they're 5, just so you know," she says, laughing. "Not that I'm judging anyone who does that!"
Tracy, 40, has just gotten back from filming a streaming version of one of her classes, the latest offering in the empire she launched 16 years ago called the Tracy Anderson Method. Tracy, who leads studio classes in L.A., New York City and the Hamptons, developed the at-home workout DVD series titled Metamorphosis and recently created Real Time with Tracy, a video-streaming option with a new installment of Tracy's master-class workouts available every Wednesday (the subscription runs about $80 a month). The workouts, based in part on Tracy's training as a dancer, are designed to help clients form a balanced body—an approach that worked so well for Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress partnered up with her in the business.
Now Tracy is determined to help us all achieve our healthiest body, whatever our shape—and she means it. "I want to get away from 'Tracy Anderson is going to make you teeny-tiny.' I'm not trying to make everyone the same. To me, 'hot' is not defined by a height or weight or measurement; hot is going to the root of who you are."
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