{"id":136,"date":"2008-01-09T07:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=136"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:05:57","slug":"webster-opens-her-own-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/webster-opens-her-own-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Webster opens her own school"},"content":{"rendered":"

AT only 20, Nikki Webster has had many career directions, something she says has just made her stronger.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Webster and her brother Scott, 23, are to open a performing arts school in Sydney, a new direction for the girl who first caught the eye at the Sydney Olympics. <\/p>\n

She told Confidential she had had some "incredibly tough times" in the past few years after coping with constant backbiting. <\/p>\n

"I’ve been scrutinised for doing nothing, basically being pure," she said yesterday. <\/p>\n

"Just because I wasn’t on drugs and not in rehab, people didn’t want to know me or give me a chance." <\/p>\n

After doing Dancing with the Stars, her career was at crossroads.<\/p>\n

She sat down and weighed the pros and cons of staying in the industry. <\/p>\n

"The cons far outweighed the pros, but I didn’t want to go and do a nine-to-five job," she said. <\/p>\n

This was despite some of her family advising her to go to university or get a normal job. <\/p>\n

"My family couldn’t understand why people were so mean," Webster said.<\/p>\n

"When they saw me cry, it hurt." <\/p>\n

But she’s upbeat about the future.<\/p>\n

"I can remember watching Cathy Freeman light the flame and thinking, ‘I’ll be 21 when the Beijing Olympics come around’."<\/p>\n

Source: The Herald Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AT only 20, Nikki Webster has had many career directions, something she says has just made her stronger. Webster and her brother Scott, 23, are to open a performing arts school in Sydney, a new direction for the girl who first caught the eye at the Sydney Olympics. She told Confidential she had had some … Continue reading<\/a>Webster opens her own school<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,72],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-dance-nikki-webster","tag-dance-nikki-webster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}