Learning more about the woman who I first knew as Emily Gilmore has been eye opening. She’s an articulate storyteller with more than 60 years of a star studded life to tell. From her early memories of ballet and a supportive mother many can only dream about and a something to be desired of a paternal DNA donor, to the bars of ballets studios across the country. Her fierce determination and sense of true value and worth are inspiring and captured eloquently throughout her career in the cut throat industry of music, dance, broadway, and as an actress.
Her ability to thread a lifetime of  achievements, a sprinkle of disappointments, a failed marriage, and decades with her soulmate, countless rescue animals as her children (and never apologizing for not wanting children, in fact openly talking about her abortion and activism for reproductive rights and abortion access) is personally inspiring in a country that tries forcing the storyline of childless women being inherently less. 
Much love to The Third Gilmore.