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Dancing QUEEN

Smart, funny, dressed down and wearing minimal makeup, Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) luminary Sharna Burgess isn’t what you’d expect when you think of a ballroom veteran.

From the outside looking in, her cha-cha-ing her way across the globe might seem like an enviable riot of feathers and sequins, but for Sharna, the glamorous world of dancing has bestowed both epic highs and earth-shattering lows.

When Good Health & Wellbeing catches up with the fiery-haired straight-talker, she opens up about her body image struggles and the recent wellness epiphany that has drastically changed her life.

‘I REMEMBER BEING 15 AND PUT ON THE SCALE EVERY TWO DAYS BY MY TEACHERS’

“I had a real struggle with my body because of dance,” the 34-year-old reveals. “I remember being 15 and put on the scale every two days by my teachers and we were told whether we needed to lose

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