What All Boomers Can Learn From Kirstie Alley

All right, well, it’s official now. Kirstie Alley’s debut performance on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) was no fluke.  If you don’t believe me, watch it yourself at Dancing With The Stars and see just how a sixty year old can move her body with energy, musicality and grace under tremendous pressure.

And she did it again on the second Monday of the new series. At the risk of sounding very 80s, “you go girl!”

It takes real courage as the celebrity participants struggle to makes their bodies do what their minds insist is impossible. Big egos are humbled and bargain basement self-esteem is bolstered every week in two-minute twirls across the ballroom floor.

Kirstie is teamed with bad boy, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. No doubt the network put Misoginistic Maks up to it when he commented in the video intro blurb that Kirstie “does not act her age at all. 60? She looks very good.”

I admit at first my expectations were low thinking Kirstie was intended as the “slightly dotty, over-the-hill” celebrity contestant. Then I, like the judges, practically fell off my perch at her jaw dropping performance quality.

So, here’s what all boomers can learn from Kirstie:

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