Cheryl Burke wants you to accept her fat

Posted by on October 11th, 2008 filed in Celebrity

Dancing With the Stars‘ Cheryl Burke has been getting a little porky lately, so she’s doing what any responsible professional dancer would do: She’s crying to the media about how everyone should be okay with it. According to People magazine:

When bloggers called out Cheryl Burke for putting on a few pounds, the Dancing with the Stars pro fought back. But what upset her most, she says, is the unhealthy body image issues promoted by such stories.

“I want kids or women out there to realize you don’t have to be anorexic to be beautiful,” the two-time Dancing champ tells PEOPLE exclusively. “There’s a lot of pressure living this Hollywood life. People expect to see you at a certain weight and when you gain a few pounds then all of a sudden it’s the talk of the week.”

Whatever, fatty. If you weren’t packing on pounds yourself, you’d be pushing your nose up with your thumb and making “oink, oink” noises at every chick who doesn’t blow away in a stiff breeze. You’re getting paid to stay in shape, so put down the damn donut and hit the treadmill. Unless you want your next TV gig to be on the evening news. In a breaking report about the woman who had to be airlifted to the hospital to have a turkey drumstick surgically removed from the folds in her gut.