Woman of 'shteel'

I CONFESS. It does me no credit, but I looked to have sport with 79-year-old Romana Kryzanowska. How could a woman billed as the oldest living disciple of Joseph Pilates, the maddeningly particular German developer of the eponymous core fitness discipline that has exploded in popularity, not be an easy target of ridicule?  

Be honest. Would you have expected the self-anointed empress of a strenuous exercise routine, who generally holds court at Drago’s Gymnasium in New York, to be anything but a stern, humourless dominatrix brimming with narcissism and defensive of her late mentor?