Dana Santi grew up in La Grange, graduated from Lyons Township High School and opened her Dana Santi Pilates Studio in Clarendon Hills just over a year ago.
Q: When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: I knew I wanted to do something with exercise. I don’t know why I felt that way or what it would be, but I knew it would be something to do with exercise.
Q: Do you have any kids?
A: Two, Langston, 10, and Vivian, 8.
Q: Any pets?
A: Two dogs, miniature Yorkies, Fiona, who’s 13, and Roy, 1.
Q: What’s your biggest pet peeve?
A: Bad Pilates, people who water it down so it’s not really Pilates
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Q: Do you have any hobbies?
A: Biking — I take a bicycle trip across Iowa each year — and cooking.
Q: What’s your favorite food?
A: Crab legs
Q: What is your favorite drink?
A: Vodka
Q: What do you like on your pizza, and what style do you like?
A: Pepperoni, mushrooms and onions, thin crust
Q: Who should play you in a movie about your life?
A: Courteney Cox
Q: What’s your favorite TV show?
A: ‘The Affair’
Q: Who is your favorite music artist?
A: Mumford and Sons
Q: What is your favorite area restaurant?
A: Brama La Pizza
Q: What is your favorite area store?
A: Vintage Charm
Q: Who is your favorite superhero?
A: Plastic Man, even though he was bad
Q: What super power would you most like to have?
A: To be able to make myself invisible
Q: What is your favorite place you have visited?
A: Venice or Florence; northern Italy
Q: Where would you most like to visit, of places you have never been?
A: South America
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Q: Fiction or nonfiction?
A: Fiction
Q: Cubs or Sox?
A: Cubs
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