Cheryl Burke: Maks Chmerkovskiy apologized for fat-shaming me — but there’s still no ‘closure’
nypost.comCheryl Burke and Maks Chmerkovskiy have moved forward from their rocky past, but one incident still stings a bit.Burke, 39, recently recalled being fat-shamed by the Ukraine native, 43, and fellow pro Louis van Amstel during the heyday of “Dancing With the Stars.”“He apologized years ago when this whole thing happened.
He apologized to me and my mother, actually, which was nice of him,” Burke told The Post of Chmerkovskiy. “But look, is there closure?
I don’t know if there’s closure. I mean, it’s not just because of him saying anything. It goes back to my dancing and competition career.”“This has always been an issue because I am a curvy girl and that’s just the way it is.
And I can’t change where my bones are or my hips. And it’s just — it is what it is. And either I accept it or I don’t. And obviously, when all your whole life it’s been centered around basically that, it’s hard to accept it,” she continued. “So I think at the end of the day, I [need] closure with myself.
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