Allison Holker can still keep in mind the minute she recognized all those chats about remaining real to yourself had actually gotten across 12-year-old child Weslie Fowler.
Picking up the then-second grader from school, the So You Think You Can Dance alum discovered an uncharacteristic somberness, possibly the smallest welling of the eyes. “There was a little bit of tears, but she was staying strong,” Allison remembered when she Weslie signed up with E! News for a special Zoom chat.
The problem, she detailed, was Weslie’s outfit. “She chose to wear suspenders and a bowtie—and she loved it so much,” stated Allison. But her schoolmates lacked her very same fashion-forward perceptiveness. “They kept being like, ‘You’re a boy. You’re wearing boy clothes. What are you doing?’ All this stuff,” continued Allison. “So she was getting hit really hard.”
Sensing a significant knowing chance, she gathered her finest adult knowledge, carefully mentioning, “like, ‘Weslie, you love that bowtie. What do you wish to do about this?'” remembered Allison. “And she was like, ‘I’m going to wear it tomorrow.’ And she wore it again the next day.”
Now, 5 years later on, Allison kept in mind, “We actually still have the bowtie. We kept it around just for, like, memory’s sake.”
