Dita Von Teese and her heavenly body returned to the MGM Grand’s Crazy Horse Paris cabaret show.  Before the show she spoke with Robin Leach:

“Yes, I am going topless. I know everybody wants to know that from the start. I don’t have any problem with that. I’m undressed — what else would I be doing here? Giving a speech? Well, I could always undress while doing that!”

She loves the Crazy Horse:

“I’ve been going to see it ever since the first time I ever went to Paris. That feels like even before the Internet. I went to Paris and just kept asking, ‘Where’s the place with the girls onstage dressed as naked toy soldiers?’ Finally somebody sent me to Crazy Horse.

But it was the career that got away:

“I was completely stunned. I saw it once, then I went back to see it every night I was in Paris. Every time I went there, I’d go to the show. I must have seen it a thousand times by now. I still go to see it, and here I am actually in it!

“It’s the career that got away from me. I was a little bit short. Only by half an inch. The minimum height requirement for a Crazy dancer is 5 foot 6 inches, and I am only 5’5 1/2.” I don’t know if it could have been possible to just sneak in under the limit, but I wouldn’t have dared dream that anyway!

“I really would love to have been a Crazy Horse girl, but it’s nice how things work out. It’s really a case of I wish I could have been, but it’s amazing how I am still seeing my dream come true. It’s funny how things don’t work out the way you want and then work out the way you don’t expect. It certainly changed my life because I could have happily been a dancer, and instead I am creating my own Crazy Horse shows in a way.”

You can read the rest of the interview here.

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