What Would Have Happened to Natalie Portmans Feet if She Really Danced Like her Black Swan Charac

Natalie Portman is one of the loveliest actresses of this generation. She’s been in many roles that are not just entertaining to us, but exceptional difficult for her. One of her most famous roles was in Black Swan, for which she delivered the performance of a lifetime. She was forced to lose a lot of weight for that role, and she was on her feet for many hours a day. Playing a hardcore ballerina on television did not have nearly the same effect on Natalie Portman’s feet as becoming one in real life, but her feet still suffered from her role. She was on them, learning the art of ballet and spending more time on her toes than ever before, and her feet took a beating. While she was suffering from calluses and blisters and bleeding toes, she was nowhere near as miserable as a real-life ballerina when she is in a role like this. Read on to find out what would have happened to Natalie Portman’s feet if she were a real ballerina in this movie.

Hardened Toe Nails

Many dancers don’t have regular toe nails. They’re so broken and hard they’ve turned black and purple and no longer have feeling. Nothing that can be done to them will change the way that they appear from the outside in.

Hard Skin

Most of the skin on the feet of a dancer is completely hardened and dead. Dancers who do see a doctor do not allow the doctors to remove the dead skin from their feet because it’s a barrier between their pain and their agony.

Injuries

Normal feet injuries are not normal to dancers; theirs are far worse. They have the kind of injuries that you can’t even imagine no matter how hard you try. These injuries are so bad, and so perplexing that they often result in feet so mangled, bloody and disgusting that dancers never wear shoes that show their feet ever again.

Natalie Portman did not have this kind of issue with her feet. Though she did experience pain and discomfort wearing ballet shoes and training, she never experienced the kind of pain and agony as dancers, and she should consider herself very lucky.

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