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August 6, 2009

The Season 5 Winner's Personal Struggles

Just found this amazing article off of TV Guide's website. She is such a strong, talented, beautiful woman. Here is a snippet of the article:

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If Jeanine Mason wins the fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance, the victory will be all the more remarkable because of a physical problem she’s overcome. What the audience doesn’t know – and what she’s never discussed on the air – is that she’s had two surgeries and radiation treatment over the past year and a half.

Mason, 18, says the trouble started in her junior year in high school when she suddenly couldn’t straighten her left elbow. “I was lifting one of the little girls one day, and I noticed I couldn’t straighten it,” she says. “We went through six months of trying to figure out what was wrong.”


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Read the rest at here TV Guide Magazine's website!