A few weeks ago Dancing with the Stars professional Cheryl Burke randomly told People magazine about how anorexia wasn’t beautiful, and then went on to talk about how she’s totally okay with her body. It seemed a little unnecessary but was a good point nonetheless. Now it looks like Cheryl must have been taking some serious heat for her weight on the set, because not one but two of her male costars have criticized the female dancers’ bodies.

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.”

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.

[From Us Weekly]

This is so unnecessary and mean spirited. There really is no winning. If a person slims down or focuses too much on what they eat they’re obsessed. If they put on any weight they’re unhealthy. Either way, average bodies are going to be called fat if they dare to be average. Yes Cheryl and Lacey are dancers, which means that they’re already highly aware of how their bodies look. They probably spend more than half their days in front of full-length mirrors. Whatever the reason for their weight gain, I’m sure they’re painfully aware of it.

They don’t need some insensitive jerks making comments about it. Especially after they’ve both worked hard to lose weight. This show is supposed to be about fun, which is why people like it. Criticizing women’s bodies for being less-than-perfect (dancers or otherwise) isn’t necessary.

Here’s Lacey Schwimmer with Lance Bass at the EA Sports Freestyle presents Facebreaker launch party on September 3rd. Photographer: Rachel Worth. Cheryl Burke is shown with Maksim Chmerkovskiy on September 4th. Header of Lacey at Planet Funk’s Fashion Week Kick-off on October 10th and Cheryl at the “Love Sees No Color” even on September 19th. Images thanks to WENN.

Afraid she was running the risk of being taken too seriously, Kim Kardashian decided to slut it up on Friday by dancing with the Pussycat Dolls in Los Vegas. Kim donned a little sailor suit and focused on such complex tasks as not slipping on the water in the bathtub. Which to be fair is a pretty common problem for dancers. And the elderly.

Last week, bountiful-bootied celebutante Kim Kardashian performed with the Pussycat Dolls, much to the delight of a hooting and hollering crowd. And even though the main man in Kim’s life, NFL superstar Reggie Bush, wasn’t able to be there in person, he still managed to catch her in all her scantily clad glory.

“We instant-messaged right before the show,” Kim told OK! at the Sunkist/MTV Ultimate End of Summer Bash at The London West Hollywood. “He could see the costume and I did my whole little performance for him to show him what I was going to be doing. He asked me to take a video.”

And while Kim said she hopes to work with the Dolls again soon, she admitted that their saucy dance numbers are not as easy as you might think. “I was so nervous,” she explained. “There was water in the bathtub and I didn’t want to slip… I didn’t practice it with the water to start with.” Regardless, Kim calls the whole experience, “exhilarating… very empowering.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Apparently Kim’s efforts at weight loss have been quite fruitful – a little too much so, in fact. She recently said that she’s trying to lose some of the infamous junk in her famous trunk – and TMZ reports that Kim surprised everyone with just how much she’d slimmed down.

Yes, video can be deceiving. Kim Kardashian had a 911 emergency over the weekend when she performed in Vegas with the Pussycat Dolls. Seems part of her ass disappeared.

Our spies tell us hours before going on stage, she was fitted for her costume but it was too big … in the butt Bob. Kim K lost weight in all the wrong places. She got cinched up with her getup and went on stage.

[From TMZ]

She still looks pretty good to me. If you go for the whole skanky sailor slut look. I personally prefer more of a skanky pirate, but whatever. Here’s Kim dancing with the Pussycat Dolls on Friday. Images thanks to WENN.