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Cheryl Burke Opens Up About How ‘DWTS’ Made Her Body Dysmorphia Worse

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Cheryl Burke is sharing how her time on “Dancing with the Stars” has exacerbated her body dysmorphia. Burke, 38, talked about her lifelong struggles with body image on a recent episode of the “HypochondriActor” podcast hosted by Sean Hayes and Dr.

Priyanka Wali. “I have body dysmorphia because I’m a dancer,” she said. “I mean, tell me one dancer that doesn’t. When I look at myself in the mirror and someone says, ‘Oh, you look amazing’ I see someone who is overweight and in my eyes and in my way of judging myself, not amazing.

So it’s like no matter what I look like.” READ MORE: Cheryl Burke Opens Up About Divorce In Latest Podcast Episode Burke also revealed that it was only after rewatching old seasons of “DWTS” that she realized just how overly critical she had been of her own appearance. “I was pretty skinny and yet I was still giving wardrobe hassle in our fittings,” she recalled. “Like meaning not hassling them, more like, ‘Ugh I feel like shit’ or ‘Oh my god look at my fat roll.’ It’s so ridiculous.” Burke previously opened up about her body image issues in a YouTube video she posted in 2020.

And though Burke said she has suffered from body dysmorphia most of her life — she grew up in dance studios surrounded by mirrors subjected to constant weigh-ins with her coach, and raised by a “health-conscious” mother constantly trying fad diets — being on television brought new challenges. “The nation decided to call me fat about season seven or eight when I actually got off my birth control and I retained 15 pounds of water weight,” Burke told Hayes and Wali, adding that she thought eliminating the medication would help her lose weight. “Normally people lose weight when they get off birth control,” she continued. “So

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