Exclusive: Lamar Odom may be off dancingabc, but he's finally opening up about why he agreed to put his dancing shoes on in the first place.
With Lamar standing at 6'10" and Peta at 5'7," one of the biggest challenges the two had to overcome each week was learning to dance and perfect their framework with a massive height difference.
"I love him for saying that ... that's like the best compliment I've ever gotten," Peta replied."It was crazy, though. I mean, I've never danced with somebody this tall. I think the tallest partner I had was maybe 6'2. So, this was a huge jump, a huge sort of learning experience as a teacher. I had to change my ways of teaching and sort of adapt to him."
"It does feel good to do something I never thought I would do before and excel at it a little bit," Lamar, who has played for teams like the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers, said of being chosen to represent the NBA this season. "That makes me feel good about myself." "Because it's the most difficult thing I've ever done, physically," he continued."Just the practice time that we have to put in; it's a lot, and it's draining. These last couple weeks, after every time we danced, it felt like I had played a 48-minute game versus the Boston Celtics and it went into overtime. It was emotionally draining as well.""It takes time.
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