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The battles behind the scenes. Cheryl Burke revealed that she struggles with physique dysmorphia — and she or he doesn’t suppose her time on Dancing With the Stars has helped.
“I’ve physique dysmorphia as a result of I’m a dancer,” the ballroom professional, 38, stated throughout a current episode of the “HypchondriActor” podcast with Sean Hayes and Dr. Priyanka Wali. “I imply, inform me one dancer that doesn’t.”
The California native stated that the situation causes her to see herself in a different way than different folks do, no matter how a lot she weighs or how she appears. “After I take a look at myself within the mirror and somebody says, ‘Oh, you look superb,’ I see somebody who’s obese,” she defined. “And in my eyes and approach of judging myself, not superb, it doesn’t matter what I appear to be.”
Burke defined that she first found she “had an issue” when she was “going again by way of outdated seasons” of DWTS and remembered how uncomfortable she felt in her costumes. “I used to be fairly skinny and but I used to be nonetheless giving wardrobe trouble in our fittings,” she recalled. “Which means not hassling them, extra like, ‘Oh, I really feel like s–t,’ or ‘Oh, my God, take a look at my fats roll.’ It’s so ridiculous, proper?”
The Dance Mothers alum additionally couldn’t ignore criticism from viewers and social media trolls — and generally folks on the set of DWTS. “It was, like, a giant deal, like, ‘Cheryl’s too fats for TV,’” the dancer recalled. “After which I had a few my coworkers blasting my ass too. I might get up to, like, [Los Angeles radio station] KTLA [saying], ‘Cheryl’s too fats.’”
Burke went on to say that she is aware of engaged on the ABC actuality competitors has exacerbated her signs, however she thinks they may dissipate every time she decides to depart the present. For now, nonetheless, she’s been incorporating dance into her remedy therapies.
“I do know dance has saved my life,” she defined.
The I Can Do That alum, who cut up from husband Matthew Lawrence in January after almost three years of marriage, beforehand opened about her physique picture points in a YouTube video shared in November 2020. “I used to weigh myself obsessively,” she recalled within the submit. “After I would go on journeys, I might take a scale with me. ‘Is she too skinny? Is she dying?’ Nobody was ever actually happy, I suppose. You’re within the public eye and it makes you self-conscious.”
Burke added that she would in all probability have to depart the leisure trade fully with the intention to put her physique dysmorphia behind her. “The trauma of happening reside tv shaking my ass in entrance of tens of millions of individuals is just not serving to,” she defined.
