In a conversation with Maya Rhodan for TIME, President Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland talked about gender, race, and navigating success with their similar paths making it into American history. Obama even spoke about raising two daughters in a society that has enormous pressures on what a woman’s body type should be.

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