JENNA

It’s 4.30pm in LA and Jenna Dewan is “drenched in sweat”, but not for the reasons you’d assume. The dancer and actor-turned-producer, who first hit our screens 15 years ago in the movie Step Up, hasn’t just finished a hip-hop class. Her state isn’t the result of her new fitness fave, Pilates, either. Nope, Jenna is a sweaty mess from general “mum-ness”, she laughs as she tells me on Zoom. And it’s with this openness that she begins our chat. Here, she talks about her evolving relationship with fitness, how she learnt to deal with anxiety, and why her life has only gotten better as she’s gotten older.

What was your approach to fitness in your 20s and how did it evolve in your 30s, and now at 40?

Ooh, good question. Well, I started dancing when I was five, so I didn’t know life without extreme physical discipline. It was hours