Oct 11 2008Cheryl Burke wants you to accept her fat

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.

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Who is this cow?

She looks awesome.
Anyone who disagrees can post a picture of their bodies on the net so we can judge them with the same high standard.

She looks hot, and would be a fun ride. I'm sorry but those skinny 100 pound Hollywood girls are just little boys with vagina's. Real women have curves...

definitely not as hot as her pre-disco fries and extra mayo on the bacon double chee days. now you'd probably have to bare-knuckle box her for the last nacho.

but make no mistake about it-- i'd hit it.

Emmm.....sorry but she looks fine! Not all women get a skinny ectomorphic body type that stays with them for twenty years. Most of us naturally start to get a bit rounder as the years go by. Cheryl Burke at least has kept it in check - she is curvy, glowing, and still within a healthy weight.

So what's the problem? Do men need to see her bones to get a boner?

Bullshit! She looks fabulous!! Sorry she's not the coked out Hollywood whores we're used to seeing. Anyone who disagrees can eff off.

Bullshit! She looks fabulous!! Sorry she's not the coked out Hollywood whores we're used to seeing. Anyone who disagrees can eff off.

She looks very cute and sexy. I don't know what the big deal is. She has put on a little weight but she is far from obese, fat, whatever. Most women wish they looked this good. People need to find something else to talk about. This is lame even for a celebrity gossip site.

She looks very cute and sexy. I don't know what the big deal is. She has put on a little weight but she is far from obese, fat, whatever. Most women wish they looked this good. People need to find something else to talk about. This is lame even for a celebrity gossip site.

She looks very cute and sexy. I don't know what the big deal is. She has put on a little weight but she is far from obese, fat, whatever. Most women wish they looked this good. People need to find something else to talk about. This is lame even for a celebrity gossip site.

All the comments on here must be from fat assholes because this bitch is a fucking chubba wubba! yuck!!!

Fat?! Hardly. I hate that show but she looks cute and curvy and she's probably in phenomenal shape being a professional dancer and all.

I'd expect a dancer to have large thighs and be a bit more muscular than your typical Hollywood ho. However, if the girl is going to have a big ass and legs, she should have the matching boobs to go along with them, unlike this girl.

I'd also expect any dancer to be a former stripper and one bad break up and a tub of ben and jerry's away from looking like, well, this broad. I'm not saying I wouldn't nail her; I'm just saying she's kinda tubby and should be treated as less of a person becasue of it.

What has the world come to? This woman is most likely at a HEALTHY weight for her height and build! I hate how guys get turned off because of a little bit of weight on someone. She looks fabulous and shes glowing.

Would u rather screw someone who looks like they have been in a concentration camp the last few years? Seriously, get a life. Real women have curvesss!

Hey article writer, whoever you are, I know you're just trying to make a living writing these blurbs, but honestly, you should be deeply ashamed of yourself. It's been well documented that the reason anorexia is so common these days is because of the recent false ideal portrayed in the media, and by you, that to be truly beautiful means to be fatless. This then creates a distortion in perception where young women try to rid themselves of every gram of fat, often leading to disease, infertility and shortened lifespan. Go read a few books written by women who've worked their way through a bout of anorexia and see how strongly they were influenced by comments like the one you wrote.

That you would choose to portray this attitude speaks very badly of you.

Eccept my fat??? is she still a professional dancer? who's the brave soul going to lift her on top of their heads? Incredible hulk?

Besides looking like an alcoholic hairdresser slash home interiors seller, what has she done to make everyone hate her?

Nice posture, moo.

I agree with @16 - Joeri. I have been reading this gossip site for a while, and this has got to be one of the worst posts. That kind of commentary should be reserved for a pro-anorexia site.

She is a bit plumper than some but she carries it well. She obviously has muscle development too, and is not just a blob - that's why she looks good.

This writer is not funny and needs to get a life.

I would destroy that chubby a$$. She looks delicious

i don't think people hate her because of her new back fat. I think it is because she got caught having sex with Nick Lachey's brother, whose wife was back at home taking care of their new baby. Before that happened, you seriously never heard anything negative about this girl. But after that, i never heard or saw another positive word about her.

Now that's a full meal at the Ponderosa Buffet

Joeri, I understand your frustration, but anorexia is more like an addiction:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=addicted-to-starvation

However, Cheryl Burke is probably more fit and active than most people. Let's hope she can stay healthy.

It's people like you that contribute to media/society and tell us that average looking people are fat. Very stupid and selfish of you to "rant on" about someone that looks decent and not the least bit fat. If this is fat, then what the fuck is beyonce or shakira? It's called having a shape and being average like everyone else. who wants a society full of 100lbs people?!

She's the ONLY reason I watch that show. Those legs and booty are made of WIN. Fat? HAHAHAHAHAHA! White people.

/I bone Cheryl over toothpick Keira Knightley any day

she looks cute and curvy.~
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People that are saying she looks fine have a distorted view of what "fine" is. I just travelled the world and having just arrived back in the USA on my way to Canada, all I see are fat people here in Honolulu. We eat too much in the west. She is fucking binging on shit food and it shows. I am sorry, fat has become acceptable and it is pathetic. She looks good to all you fatties as you are all comforting yourselves. I am not advocating being "meth addict slim" but this bitch is clearly on a slippery slope...she will be Roseanne in no time. Watch the foods you eat, stay active and this does not happen. Pathetic....

I don't think this girl is fat at all...she actually looks pretty healthy. The women in Hollywood who are 100 lbs. or less look awful. Plus, not everyone's body is built to look like a toothpick.

That being said, I am SICK of what the clothes manufacturers are doing with sizing. Burke claims to be a size 4...no way! They charge outrageous prices and stick on a smaller size. Great. I'm going broke, but I can now "proudly" say I wear a 0. Coincidentally, that's also the amount of cash I have in my wallet.

She's surprisingly plump and soft for a dancer

Hey idiots who are talking shit about the 'Fish writer, I'd like to welcome you to this site. It's called Superficial - Because You're Ugly. This is not a Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig website where we all coddle each other and tell ourselves it's okay to be a fat porker.

That said, this chick has a fat ass, fat legs, fat arms, and surprisingly flat chest. If she got some implants to make the tits proportional then there would be no problem. Everyone goes chubby-chasing once in a while. I'd hit it if she got tits and I was impaired from alcohol.

Holy Shit! Fat? She's a dancer, she's friggin' thick. She's strong as hell, she's got endurance, you muthafuckas don't know what the fuck you're writing about. The author's probably a fat fuck himself or if it's a girl...well same applies. Get a fucking clue. You guys sound as dumb as the blond stoner on tmz

She is so not fat, sorry. She looks great and is an awesome dancer too!

She looks great!!!

She's really ugly and chubby. I would rather die than have that body.

All I have to say is this is the type of "fat" you wanna be ladies!!!!!!

I'd hit that all day long

Hit the treadmill.

She's a cute kind of chubby. As long as she doesn't get any bigger, I'd hit it repeatedly.

I think she looks great. I wish I was her boyfriend and could make love to her right now.

I'd play hid the salami with her. If I wanted to bone someone who looks like a pre pubescent boy, I would have become a Catholic priest. I'd love to have those thighs wrapped around my head. Besides, chunky girls give better bj's cuz they're hungry.

Soup Or Fish Al Wry-Duh, this isn't Tom Brokaw. No, I swear really.
But our Cheryl is on the right side of voluptuous. You'd probably sneer at Marilyn Monroe because she isn't a walking stick insect with two water balloons full of bourbon above her thorax. If you weren't so hilarious most of the times, I'd throw a ravenous Kirstie Alley towards your desk after generously sprinkling you with Burger King Triple Whoppers and sticks of butter.
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Ah, the comments reveal the REAL reason she's come under critcism - because she doesn't have big boobs! It's not that she's got curvy legs & butt, but it's the lack of hanging fat sacks on her chest that really uglifies her. You lame hypocrits, go back to your online porn, jerk off, come back when you're in a better mood and thinking straight without all the sperm clouding your brains.


Geez! I thought she was around 40 yrs. old (24?)! Pretty cute, though.

If she's getting paid six figures to be in front of a TV camera, seems she could "TIGHTEN" it up.
If she's getting five figures...hit the ho-ho's baby! Go Blonsky!

Sorry to break it to you guys (the majority of the male population in America), but this 'porky' picture of her is more of an accurate respresentation of what the average female may look like in her late 20s or early 30s. So, get used to it. She probably doesn't starve herself thin, and her curvacious figure by no means suggests she's obese. Funny to think that the men commenting on here bashing her weight and appearance are probably nothing to get excited about, yet they expect a woman to live up to the unrealistic expectations of the bone-thin women seen in the media. Go figure.

It's a setup. She will soon be doing commercials for Jenny Craig.

Don't get me wrong... I'd hit it, but why is it chubby women are always the ones that are "glowing?"

Give me a break. I think Cheryl is gorgeous and considering the shallow ditzes which consist of "hollywood" i would go out with fun Cheryl in a second! Everyone of those Hollywood biatches will really be "fat" in about 20 years.

To #44 et al., women in their 20's an 30's who look like this are unhealthy. That's why most of them don't look like this sow. They are in shape. This gluttons shape is not curvacious; it's round like a ball of fat. She looks like she's smuggling a few buckets of KFC chicken under that dress. Women who look like this pig would like to believe they are a majority but they aren't and all the oinking and mooing you do will never convince anyone otherwise. It isn't normal for any woman to weigh over 200 lbs unless she's 8 feet tall. Maybe 9 feet. A 5-6" woman should weigh less than 130 lbs. Any more than that and you're just a fat slob and no self respecting guy will ever be tempted to bend you over and stick cock in your ass.

Cheryl looks great! She is my fav dancer on the show....she radiates fun!

I a big boned black girl 5' 9" and 194 lbs. and I aint fat no way you silly skinny white folk don't know what healthy is. I say like me the way it is or you ain't gettin the hole.

i'd still hit it.

Jeezus Flipping Burgers! It's friggin OCTOBER people. WINTER IS COMING. The poor girl is just getting ready to hibernate in her cave. Leave her alone!

But if you weigh 194 lbs nobody wants the hole. That's the point I'm making. And there's no such thing as "big boned" people. Except for midgets. Their bones can get really dense cause the growth that would ordinarily increase bone length, instead increases bone girth. But they don't get fat. On the other hand among non-midgets there are big fat people. Like the girl in these pictures. She looks like she's been pouring gravy on her breakfast cereal and buttering her toast with Crisco. The only big bone she has is in her head. It keeps telling her to eat and eat until she's fat like she is now then blame the rest of the world for telling her she's fat. For the love of god, if the girl's dress was on fire and she didn't seem to notice are you saying we shouldn't tell her to drop and roll? Should we just look away and pretend she isn't burning? That's insanity.

@3 i fully agree , hell for once that i agree with someone :P

There really isn't anything wrong with gaining and/or losing weight. Everyone goes up and down especially if you just got back from vacation or have been inactive for a period.

However, I HATE when star bitch, whine and complain about how they not naturally a size "0" and are proud of the way they look 4 sizes bigger then go on to lose a ton of weight later on then talk about how its good to be healthy and active.... It's all public relations BS.

Sorry.she doesnt have to be skinny to be a star/actor. That is HER choice. She chose to eat alot...often. tastes good. I understand. But, she is FAT. And insisting she is a size 4 makes me think she is a FAT LIAR.

i totally agree with ms burke on the anorexia thing. however, she has definitely packed on a bit too much. she could lose about 10 lbs. and she would look great again. i love the women who have fit, shapely bods and when she is fit- she is pretty nice.

me like dem big booty, aight

I agree with # 16 the writer of this site seems to have turned a corner this past day where he is more of a prick than usual. He seemed to have moved from 'funny guy' to bitter cunt. Bad form. She looks fine better than most of us do i bet. How many pot bellied fucks on here were the ones laying down the shit.

Parker...yeah, you!

How bouts a link to an image of you? I'm sure that your lean, muscular frame would be an inspiration to us all. Imagine...seeing you could cure America of obesity by the inspiration that your perfect body could affect on us all. Are you a giver?

Give us a tantilizing taste of your perfect bod. If it's as great as you imply, I committ to dropping 20 and will never post again. If not, you post video of someone cleaning out the dirt in the folds of your belly fat. Fair?

The girl is crazy hot!!! I been dreaming about hittin' that for a while!

She looks gorgeous! She is NOT fat. Has she put on some pounds since last season? It looks like it, but not enough to make her anywhere near fat. It pisses me off that if you're not emaciated looking, you are automatically deemed "fat" in Hollywood. It's totally fucked up.

Tbh she generally gains weight between seasons of Dancing with the Stars. She loses all the weight once she gets back to dancing though. Cheryl is a professional dancer and she's never been super skinny, she's just naturally curvy. Clearly she does work out and eat healthy or else she'd never be able to get anywhere in her career.

What are you talking about, fat?, are you kidding? This is a perfect example of a health beautiful woman she has a beautiful face and body!!! 60% of the USA is overweight!!! This woman is BEAUTIFUL!

Im sorry but you have lost a lot of faithful readers because of this article. This woman is NOT fat. I will close this window and move on to your replacement www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com at least they respect women.

-Fan of 4 years.

this is a horrendously written article. the author doesn't know shit about what "fat"' means, and what it means to be a "dancer." if you're gonna make fun of a celebrity who is more accomplished than you are, you can at LEAST be mildly entertaining. what a waste of cyber-space.

sorry buddy, you've definitely just lost a good handful of readers.

CHUNK-O-MATIC!

She's breaking my heart with the weight gain, but my god do I still love her. You know how those people get so fat they can't leave their own beds, and you wonder how they stay so fat, because someone obviously has to come in and feed the bedridden monster fatty?

I'd feed her. For love.

hmm...something on this site smells fishy....the most recent comments don't sound like the real fish!! what happened to him?! and who is this new person?!

Look at her cradling that $10 bottle of Fiji water. Sucker.


I think the fish writer might be tapping Jennifer Love Hewitts hypocrisy once more.
I'm just surprised an active 24 year old would be noticeably plush like this. This seems more like a "I love processed snacks and soap operas" kind of 24 year old.

Paula Abdul seemed kind of rounded out below the waist at 26 but not like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbknGnZXHUk

@68 Isn't that the creepiest thing? They do that to their own children. The person is so fat they just lay there in their own shit because THEY CAN'T MOVE, CAN BARELY BREATHE, and they have to eat like 5000 calories a day TO SUSTAIN THAT (or they would rapidly start losing weight), and their own family comes in and shovels the poison down their throat.
So the doctor says, "You need to lose this weight or you'll be dead in a year", and they're in the clinic in a life and death situation, and what does their family do? SMUGGLES JUNK FOOD INTO THE CLINIC TO HELP THEM COMMIT SUICIDE.

I watch TLC.

It's accepted.
........................................................................NOW WHAT, folks?

"It's been well documented that the reason anorexia is so common these days is because of the recent false ideal portrayed in the media"

That's a myth. The rate of anorexia hasn't changed in many decades. And like all other psychiatric disorders, it has more to do with personality dysfunction than reactions to viewing images.

BMI! BMI!All you cunts saying what is or isn't unhealthy need to look at what PROFESSIONALS say is normal. Saying that this girl is unhealthy is bullshit. She probably has a normal BMI. So go back to your porn mags you acne-ridden 12-year-old assholes

SHE'S NOT FAT!!!

Looking like the typical cover girl (like Keria Knightly and others) is a health issue.

It's amazing how many people ignore what the professionals say is healthy and continue to listen to the media who only cares about tearing a person down.

And if this "Media" thing is a myth, then why does the media glorify all the Unhealthy skinny chicks and put down all the normal healthy girls?!?!

Definitely the most misogynistic post yet on this site but I'm kind of pleasantly surprised by the number of posts disagreeing with the idea that she is fat. She's nowhere near fat, the world has officially gone mad if that is what counts as overweight now.

Cheryl Burke is not at all fat. We have reached a sad state in this country if a woman 5'4, size 4 is referred to as "porky." Even if she were a size 8 she would not even be close to fat. You have skewered Serena Williams, an athlete for looking "manly" and called this woman fat. Attitudes like this are exactly why so many women and girls have body issues.

Lost another reader (me). I will miss you and your paper thin 4 inch semi hard cock. Try writing something funny instead of ignorant from now on and FYI I am 5'7 and a size 4 OMG im HUGE!

ACUP - Haha! I totally agree with you! I bet he (Parker) doesn't have washboard abs, a strong upper body, or stands over six feet tall - so, he shouldn't be commenting on others' weight as if he has the right to. Parker, please find something better to do than degrade women. I'm sure as heck certain that you're physique is nothing to gloat about. And for the record, there is some truth to 'being big boned', for people have varying bone structures and frames; women traditionally have larger and wider hips, pelvises, and Q angles than men, making it easier to gain pounds in that region.


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she doesnt look bad at all here
i dont see fat necessarily
i think she looks alright, atleast she isnt some dumb annorexic bitch with no boobs
yeah, thats 2/3rds of hollywood you shits

It's a good thing she's not famous otherwise I might pay attention to what this heffer was saying.

It's funny. According to fat chicks there are only two types of girls: anorexic and those who don't promote the "unhealthy" Hollywood body image.

You people are so sick. I can't believe you'd spend time bashing a beautiful woman like this. Get a life and go work on yourselves, especially your sick and rotten spirits. Clearly, there's a lot of work to do there. Most of you leave much to be desired. Poor, poor, sick people.

You people are so sick. I can't believe you'd spend time bashing a beautiful woman like this. Get a life and go work on yourselves, especially your sick and rotten spirits. Clearly, there's a lot of work to do there. Most of you leave much to be desired. Poor, poor, sick people.

You're kidding me, right? She looks BEAUTIFUL and god fucking forbid that she isn't a size 0. I've yet to meet a guy {though I know they do exisit} who doesn't like a woman with curves and some meat on her bones. I can't imagine hugging someone who looks like skin and bones.

A-cup you stupid c-word, read that post again cause I never said anything at all about what I look like. But let your imagination run wild though as it obviously seems to be already. Do you see so few men with no clothes on that you have to sit back and imagine what I look like naked? That is so lame. I happen to be in fabulously good shape but even if I was a big fat porker it wouldn't change the fact that this girl is FAT! I also wouldn't be crying about people calling me fat either. I wouldn't have the time cause I'd be too busy losing weight which is what this flabby ass girl needs to do. You're such an enabler. You tell people they're not fat even if they are fat. You may as well tell them it's ok to SMOKE too, which, you probably do. "Boo-hoo I ate too much and got fat and now people are telling me I'm fat and that's not fair." How stupid is that? That's essentially what this girl is saying and you're telling her she's not fat. Geez, when the girl is shaped like beachball and sweating like a pig after dancing for five minutes do you honestly think she should be having cupcakes for dinner? Puh-leez!

You fucking idiots.. compared to what she used to look like on the show she is a big fucking porky pig here.

She wasn't one of those 100 lb bitches w/ a 12 yr old body before. She was muscular and trim. Now she's a big fat blob.

ha ha ha! fatso

This is a Mature Woman get a grip.!!!!

please people, I would like to see a pic of canadian boy. He better have a eight pack making those statements. I'm sick of the double standard the women have to look like models while the guys have beer bellies. Look around, real women have to work and take care of their family. Even the model that was on the show, she couldn't even finish the dance. . .why because she can't eat or she'll look like at nomal woman. I'm sorry but men who think like that needs to take a long look in the mirror and judge their body like they are judging Cheryls. . . then hit the gym

please people, I would like to see a pic of canadian boy. He better have a eight pack making those statements. I'm sick of the double standard the women have to look like models while the guys have beer bellies. Look around, real women have to work and take care of their family. Even the model that was on the show, she couldn't even finish the dance. . .why because she can't eat or she'll look like at nomal woman. I'm sorry but men who think like that needs to take a long look in the mirror and judge their body like they are judging Cheryls. . . then hit the gym

Cheryl is gorgeous. I did notice she's gained a few pounds, but she is still gorgeous. The average woman today is a size 14 - that makes Cheryl thin by that standard. Skinny, bony women are not sexy, healthy women are.

Cheryl is beautiful, totally awesome, and I want more pics of her now!

She's not even fat...How disgusting your comments are Superficial, but I guess that's why you named yourself that. No, there are not two types of girls anorexic and fat. When I was younger everyone accused me of being anorexic because I was so thin, but I just couldn't gain any weight. I got made fun of in school because I was so thin, but I couldn't help it. So, it's not just heavier girls that get made fun of. The sad thing is that if you are in the media and you are bigger than a size 2 you are considered fat. People like you are why we have anorexia and bulimia in our country today. These poor young insecure girls that come look at your site will begin to think they are fat too. Cause if Cheryl is fat, Britney is fat, Jennifer Love is fat (according to you) then they must too be fat. That's what they are gonna think. You should be ashamed of yourself. There is such a thing as being too over weight, that is unhealthy, but putting on a few pounds in not a big deal. I wish that this wasn't a double standard, guys are never called out on their weight. For instance, Jack Osbourne lost a significant amount of weight, is he anorexic and what about Carson Daly? You can call out Kate Bosworth for being too thin, but what about those guys? I don't see you saying that such and such guy has put on weight, calling them a pig ect. For the record, the only pigs are the ones like yourself that help promote eating disorders.

WOMEN CAN'T WIN FOR LOSING... Size 0=Anorexic and Size 4 or more=Fat, according to you. Just out of curiosity Fish, what do you weigh? Are you a anorexic or are you a fatty? If you can say that about women then we can say it about you too.

I bet you the person who wrote this is an ugly dickhead who can't get a lay. If I ever find out who you are I'm going to kill you. She looks fucking awesome, I would love to go out with a girl like her. Get a life loser and deal with your issues.

Cheryrl Burke looks great she is not fat at all.
She is one of the best dancers i have ever seen.
She did a wonderful job with Maurice.
We will always watch her dance each season on the show.

Cheryrl Burke looks great she is not fat at all.
She is one of the best dancers i have ever seen.
She did a wonderful job with Maurice.
We will always watch her dance each season on the show.

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