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Dancing with the stars aum Cheryl Burke opens for her battle with mental health and Body’s uncertainty issues Through the years.
“I suffer from dysmorphia of the body, and especially as a dancer in front of mirrors constantly – since I was a little girl,” Burke, 41, told Entertainment tonight In an honest interview published on Thursday, May 30. “Even before my Dancing with the stars A career, my weight has always been a problem. I think what people sometimes don’t understand is that it’s a lot of work (and) it takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of self -care. “
He added, “I must say, at the height of my uncertainty and my body dysmorphia was weekly fittings on the show. I do not blame the show in any way, but she Just the name of the game. We are squeezing into these costumes, and that’s it. It would affect me to the point where I would weigh myself constantly (a) I would travel with a scale. “
Eventually, Burke reached a point where he realized that the number on the scale would “determine” his self-worth.
“I knew this could no longer last,” he said, emphasizing that she was “never overweight” before she slimmed down recently. “I’m still very curvy, like, that’s exactly the way my bone structure. I think many people could now take my weight like, ‘It’s not a good example.’ … I have chosen to lose weight to work on myself to feel good, to love what I really see in the mirror, but more importantly, to love me.
Burke, who stressed she was still a fierce-positive body and a mental health advocate, has been putting himself first since leaving Dump in 2022.
“I’ve done so much work on myself from inside. For me, I’m proud of that work and I would like the conversation (online) to be more aimed at that instead, ‘she is on Ozempic (or) she had a whole transformation and everything,’ he said for the Viral comments now, and he denied zealously. “If I said it doesn’t affect me, I would lie. But, does it affect me as bad as it did when I was on (Dancing with the stars))? Not even close. “
Burke, who no longer owns a scale, broke out further How it ended drop the excess pounds.
“I’m on a very clean food program called Zen. They give birth to my home every night (a) I don’t eat past 6 pm,” he explained, she didn’t practice binge drinking late at night. “He wasn’t healthy.