DWTS alum Sharna Burgess opens up about eating | TV Shows

Sharna Burgess is lifting the lid on the struggles she has confronted during her life as a professional dancer, admitting that she often struggled with food and suffered from an eating disorder in her youthful years. 

The 40-year-old, who gained Dancing With the Stars’ twenty seventh season with Bobby Bones, has always been candid about her past, and once again opted to be so as in an Instagram “Ask Me Anything” on Sunday, January 18.

Following questions on whether or not she would ever return to the ABC show after Bones claimed he had “cheated” to win, Burgess determined to speak about the struggles she confronted as she got here up in the dance world as a star.

“I struggled with binging and restricting mostly,” she admitted during the candid section on her social media.

Her candor got here after a fan requested her if she had struggled with an eating disorder, one thing she admitted was the outcome of a “super complicated relationship with food” as a teen and into her 20s, but that when she hit her 30s, her habits “changed.”

Burgess has beforehand been open about her struggles with her weight and her relationship with food, citing her profession path, in an interview with Australia’s Good Health & Wellbeing magazine in 2021.

“I had a real struggle with my body because of dance,” she said at the time. “I remember being 15 and being 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–and I certainly wasn’t overweight.”

“It also started a negative pattern of eating whereby I’d binge one day, and then starve the next. I struggled with that throughout the years, even in my 20s, I’d look in the mirror and see the 15-year-old that was told every week she needed to lose more weight.”

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She also credited becoming a member of the forged of Dancing With the Stars for altering her mindset, as she noticed celebrities rework during their time on the show and beloved how dance impacted their our bodies.

“It 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. I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve been doing this my whole life.”

Burgess went on to compete on the show for Seasons 16-27, before returning for Seasons 29 and 30.

She gained with Bones, positioned second with Nick Carter, James Hinchcliffe, and Josh Norman in respective seasons, and took third with Noah Galloway.

Her ultimate season noticed her compete alongside now-fiance Brian Austin Green, whom she had begun courting a 12 months prior. She left the show after welcoming their son, Zane, in 2022.

If you or somebody you already know is struggling with physique image or eating considerations, the National Eating Disorders Association’s toll-free and confidential helpline is obtainable by telephone or textual content at 1-800-931-2237 or by click-to-chat message at nationaleatingdisorders.org/helpline. For 24/7 disaster conditions, textual content “NEDA” to 741-741.