Normai Kordei Talks ‘DWTS’ Injury: It’s ‘Mind Over Matter'

Normani Kordei opened up about competing on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ with her back injury, saying that it’s ‘mind over matter’ — read more
It was worth it! Normani Kordei opened up about battling through her back injury to achieve a perfect score with her pro partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, on the Monday, May 1, movie-themed episode of Dancing With the Stars.

The 20-year-old said she had a “stressful week,” but she and Chmerkovskiy pulled through with a flawless Argentine tango. “I’m super proud of myself,” she told Us Weekly and other reporters after the show. “It’s just kind of mind over matter, even though it can be … physical, and I really struggled this week in a constant battle with myself.”

Kordei explained that she has a “severe strain” in both her upper back and hip, which is connected to a ligament that’s largely torn. “I’m on medication, and I just have to pace myself and take things step by step,” she said. “[The doctor] literally told me if I keep going at the rate that I’m going that I could crack my hip, which I don’t want. I have three weeks left of the competition and it’s, like, so close, but so far. I just have to play it smart.”

Besides DWTS rehearsals, Kordei is also touring with Fifth Harmony during the week. “For Fifth Harmony shows, you know, we drop it low for the majority of the concert — it’s a 75 to 90-minute set, so it’s a lot,” she said. "I need help. Literally when I wake up in the morning, my mom has to help me.”

She added that she’s recording music in the studio with Fifth Harmony, too. “We’re women now,” she said of the girl group. “We’re comfortable, we know what we want to sing, we know what we want the music to sound like, even down to us being in the studio, starting from the ground up with the producers and being fully involved in the creative process.”

Chmerkovskiy, 31, chimed in that the singer’s experience on Dancing With the Stars is helping her to take control of her career. “She’s never had so much creative control in what she does. It’s a collaboration,” he said. “If she doesn’t like the color of her dress, she wears a different color. If she doesn’t like her hair, she wears it differently. She has the final say on what she wants and I think moving forward with her career, she could take a lot of those lessons and run with it. ”

source: www.usmagazine.com

Last edited by CEK40 (5/03/2017 8:28 am)

Alrighty then...Looks like that is about it for now...So with that I am off to "real life" for now...

Have a wonderful day everyone...HUGS


Oh View...how is Rio doing???? 

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gabriele wrote:

Hahaha, Luv!    SEVEN votes, that is.  *lol*  
Abc website worked.  
I've tried through Facebook, but it still seems to be able to somehow pick up that I am down under.
For the purpose the the abc account, I have moved into KOS neighbourhood (because it was the only actual location I could think of on the spot from the top of my head).  
Hi KOS!!    *waving*

  
 

Yea, Gabriele, glad to be of help.  And welcome to my neighborhood.   "Waving" right back to you.  

 

​  Thankyou, KOS, my sister by similar postal code.    I've picked up 'The Longest Ride' DVD from our local library today, which I had ordered when you recommended it.  I suggested to my youngest to watch it together.  He wasn't keen and then neither was I on him seeing it, once I saw that it has 'Mature themes and sex scenes'.  Oooops and phew....    Leaving it for after hours now. 

Sorry about that. It's a Nicholas Sparks movie based on his book of the same name.  And all his books are romances.  I am not a fan of sex scenes, but the ones in this movie are relatively tame.  You will like the mature themes in this movie, and they are not about sex.  The predominant theme, as expressed by the Alan Alda character, is this: "Love requires sacrifice, always."    
 

CEK40 wrote:

Alrighty then...Looks like that is about it for now...So with that I am off to "real life" for now...

Have a wonderful day everyone...HUGS


Oh View...how is Rio doing???? 

Rio is super. Calm, attentive, knows just exactly what is expected of him here at our house.  Eating well. Goes potty the same place always in the back yard - - through the chain link fence on to the neighbor's tree!

I got him micro-chipped yesterday.  Figured out who the breeder in Colorado must be, and emailed her.  She called me yesterday and we cleared up some questions I had.  His age is actually 2 years old last month. So he has his goofy teen-ager moments too.  

Lots of this going on in the back yard whenever the g'daughter stops by: