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\n Related: <\/span>Sharna Burgess Recalls Having a ‘Difficult’ Partner During ‘DWTS’<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tWhile Sharna Burgess has a lot of love for her Dancing With the Stars family, she confessed her relationship with the show hasn\u2019t been stable over the years. \u201cMy last five years on the show have been \u2026 rocky,\u201d Burgess, 38, said on the Monday, September 11, episode of the \u201cOldish\u201d podcast which she hosts [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI had a real struggle with my body because of dance,\u201d Burgess told Australia\u2019s Good Health & Wellbeing <\/i><\/a>magazine in a 2021 interview. \u201cI remember being 15 and put on the scale every two days by my teachers and we were told whether we needed to lose weight or not. Every week I was told that I needed to lose more weight \u2014 and I certainly wasn\u2019t overweight.\u201d<\/p>\nShe continued, \u201cWhile dance was something that I needed in my life, it definitely instilled a negative body image. It also started a negative pattern of eating whereby I\u2019d binge one day, and then starve the next. I struggled with that throughout the years. Even in my 20s, I\u2019d look in the mirror and see the 15-year-old that was told every week she needed to lose more weight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgess started to appreciate her physique after joining the cast of DWTS <\/i>in 2011.<\/p>\n\n![\"Sharna-Burgess-IG_1768771234_195818786\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sharna-Burgess-IG_1768771234_195818786.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Courtesy of Sharna Burgess\/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIt was seeing just how much the celebrities on the show transformed and ended up loving their bodies through being able to move and dance that really shook my perspective,\u201d she explained. \u201cI thought, \u2018Wow, I\u2019ve been doing this my whole life.\u2019 I started to see something else in the mirror, I started to see a body that had gotten me through some incredibly difficult times, that had created some beautiful moments, that had won championships, that had landed me a life I never ever thought possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgess last served as a DWTS <\/i>pro during 2021\u2019s season 30, where she danced with now-fianc\u00e9 Brian Austin Green<\/strong>. She left the show in 2022 after the pair welcomed son Zane<\/a>. (Green, 52, is also a father of four children from previous relationships.)<\/p>\n\u201cAfter long conversations and lots of thinking and really trying to sit with what was right, I have made the really hard decision to not do the season this year of D<\/strong>ancing With the Stars,<\/i>\u201d Burgess said in an August 2022 social media video<\/a>. \u201cI was not ready to spend, at minimum, 10 hours a day away from Zane. I\u2019m a full-time breast-feeding mama, and not only that, I am so in love with being a mom. As much as it was hard to say no to Dancing<\/i>, I have this family and this newborn at home that I may never get these moments back [with].\u201d<\/p>\n\n
She continued, \u201cWhile dance was something that I needed in my life, it definitely instilled a negative body image. It also started a negative pattern of eating whereby I\u2019d binge one day, and then starve the next. I struggled with that throughout the years. Even in my 20s, I\u2019d look in the mirror and see the 15-year-old that was told every week she needed to lose more weight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgess started to appreciate her physique after joining the cast of DWTS <\/i>in 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was seeing just how much the celebrities on the show transformed and ended up loving their bodies through being able to move and dance that really shook my perspective,\u201d she explained. \u201cI thought, \u2018Wow, I\u2019ve been doing this my whole life.\u2019 I started to see something else in the mirror, I started to see a body that had gotten me through some incredibly difficult times, that had created some beautiful moments, that had won championships, that had landed me a life I never ever thought possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Burgess last served as a DWTS <\/i>pro during 2021\u2019s season 30, where she danced with now-fianc\u00e9 Brian Austin Green<\/strong>. She left the show in 2022 after the pair welcomed son Zane<\/a>. (Green, 52, is also a father of four children from previous relationships.)<\/p>\n \u201cAfter long conversations and lots of thinking and really trying to sit with what was right, I have made the really hard decision to not do the season this year of D<\/strong>ancing With the Stars,<\/i>\u201d Burgess said in an August 2022 social media video<\/a>. \u201cI was not ready to spend, at minimum, 10 hours a day away from Zane. I\u2019m a full-time breast-feeding mama, and not only that, I am so in love with being a mom. As much as it was hard to say no to Dancing<\/i>, I have this family and this newborn at home that I may never get these moments back [with].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>