DWTS Pro: Cheryl Burke and Lacey Schwimmer Need to Lose Weight!

The professional dancers on DWTS are not pleased that Cheryl Burke and Lacey Schwimmer packed on a few pounds this season.

"If you want to gain weight, it's your prerogative," dancer Louis van Amstel says in the newest issue of TV Guide.

"We all put on weight because there was no summer tour," he adds. "But you have to deal with the consequences."

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Pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy is also complaining.

"When I first saw these women this season, I said, 'Guys, you know the camera adds 10 pounds,'" he says. "'You have to do something about this."

Burke and Schwimmer have gotten slimmer since the season's premiere, but van Amstel says the damage is done.

"[People] look at this show to be inspired and think, 'If I just work hard enough, I can look like that,'" he says. "If they watch someone who's dancing her butt off and she's still heavy, they can be discouraged.

"You have to take responsibility," he adds.

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Published 10/23/08 by

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  • That is absolutely ridiculous. If people really need to look up to these girls as their only system of encouragement, there are deeper issues that need to be resolved. Cheryl and Lacey should not carry the burden on their shoulders. There are far...
    Anonymous 10/22/09 Reply