This tiny dancer found her confidence on the stripper pole.
There’s a 3-foot-11 stripper from Ohio who earns over $1,500 a week — and she claims one twirl on the pole was all it took to help her forget about the bullies who picked on her over her size.
“At school I felt like an outcast, people bullied me because of my size and I was angry at the world,” Kat Hoffman, 26, told Barcroft Media. “High school was a difficult time, other kids were rude and brutally bitchy. I dreaded school every day — no one wanted to speak with me.”
Hoffman was born with diastrophic dysplasia dwarfism — which means her arms, legs and torso are shorter than average. The exotic dancer weighs just 61 pounds.
But a visit to a local jiggle joint with a friend who worked there when she was 18 years old gave the young woman the confidence she had always been missing.
“By the end of the night, I was on stage in the nude,” Hoffman said. “It was such a buzz. During my first week of dancing I made $1,000 in one week, so I decided to make a living out of it.”
Despite the bullying, Hoffman — dubbed “Kat the Midget Stripper” — says she was always proud of her body in spite of what bullies used to say, according to Barcroft.
“A lot of us disabled people don’t feel sexy because of our handicaps — but I don’t think it’s necessary,” she explained. “Everybody is sexy in their own way and personality is all that matters. You have to have a heart, that’s really all it takes to be sexy in my book.”
Hoffman, who grew up in Bellefontaine, found love last year with 34-year-old soldier Eich Buscher after the 6-foot-tall military man let her know he was a fan. The two quickly hit it off and are now engaged to be married, Barcroft reports.
“I always go for tall men,” Hoffman said. “I love the size difference.”
Buscher admits the drastic difference in height poses “some problems, but nothing too big that we can’t handle — obviously she walks slower.”
Hoffman has stripped in clubs all over the country — and she even dances at birthdays and bachelor parties.
“I give myself five more years if not longer,” she said, describing her career as a stripper. “It just depends on how much the world wants to work my joints on the stage in the next few years. We’ll see how long I last.”
“This job has taught me to appreciate my body and who I am,” Hoffman added. “I’m so glad I found it.”