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Cheryl Burke is tangoing with the internet.
The dance pro, 41, is clapping back after online trolls criticized her slimmer appearance and her scoring during Halloween night on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Burke was a guest judge alongside Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli Tuesday night. Despite backlash on her scoring, the podcaster explained that her critiques are based on her extensive background in the field and are meant to help teams improve.
“My comments didn’t just come out of nowhere. It came from personal experience,” Burke shared in her Thursday Instagram video.
“It came from being on this show for 26 seasons, and it also came from all the years of being trained, being coached myself. I have seen so many mixed reviews, which is totally fine, but what’s not okay is I’ve also seen so many aggressive ones and a lot of body-shaming ones.”
Alix Earle’s stepmom, Ashley Dupré, responded to Burke’s scoring of Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy by saying “go take more Ozempic” in a Tuesday TikTok.
Her kids could be heard in the background asking, “Go take more Ozempic?” to which Dupré, 40, replied, “What? She looks weird. Doesn’t even look like her.”
Earle, 24, and Chmerkovskiy, 39, danced a tango to Billie Eilish’s “Bury a Friend.”
Inaba, 57, Tonioli, 69, and Hough, 40, each gave the TikTok star a 10 while Burke scored the pair at a 9. It was the first time Burke was back in the ballroom in three years.
Burke elaborated in her Instagram video that while she appreciates feedback, both “amazing and beautiful messages” or “constructive criticism,” she won’t allow commentary on her looks.
“I know that I did the best that I could with the information that I had and with what I saw in real time, and for the people who think body shaming is okay, especially in front of your children, that sends a powerful message about what you value,” she continued.
Burke noted that “clearly it’s not kindness.”
“I was simply again, doing my job as a judge, giving feedback based on almost 20 years of my life, and if my score was different from the other judges, it was by one point. I have dedicated my whole life towards being a competitor of ballroom dancing.”
Burke then urged her followers to refrain from body-shaming others, especially in front of young children.
“And you know, you don’t have to agree with my critique, but you do have to recognize the influence your words have on the next generation watching you. If that’s the example you choose to set, then please, I beg of you leave my name out of it.”
This isn’t the first time the Emmy-nominated dancer has opened up about her dramatic weight loss.
In August, Burke denied ever using weight loss medication to achieve a slimmer physique.
“There’s just no way, I faint at the sight of needles,” she told Us Weekly at the time. “And I’ve heard of side effects, people not feeling well, certain things that happen that are too gross to share. I’m not willing to feel like that. I changed my eating habits. I stopped eating past 7 p.m. and it changed my whole body. It wasn’t so much about a number on the scale as it was about how I feel.”
“At my heaviest I was about 150,” Burke continued, adding that she doesn’t weigh herself daily anymore because “it was a problem.”
“The last time I checked, I was 109,” she revealed. “I feel f—ing great; my energy is on another level. That 109 doesn’t matter, what matters is how I feel.”
Burke shared that she still enjoys candy, and promised she is “not trying” to shed any more weight.
“I have my morning fruit shake, which is more calories than any of my meals that I’m eating,” Burke said about her eating regimen. “I have to have my matcha from Peet’s Coffee every morning, and if they have the warm pretzel bread, I’ll get it because it’s just the best thing in the world.”
The TV personality called herself “very lenient” when it comes to diet.
“I have oatmeal with fruit every morning,” she elaborated. “I have a snack, pita, chips and hummus. Lunch is normally a salad and then I will have my dinner. It’s not diet food, it’s real food.”