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Kelly Osbourne is not the only one who lost weight during the current season of Dancing With The Stars. The R&B singer Mya has also lost 11 pounds and a dress size while on the show. She originally lost 17 pounds but then gained back a few pounds of muscle as she continued training. So now the petite star weight only 127 pounds. This week, she told the readers of OK! Magazine how she lost the weight. Her dance rehearsals were anywhere from six to 12 hours a day for several days a week. [Read more →]

Week after week not only celebs but also the dancers on the hit TV show Dancing With The Stars transform their figures from soft to super svelte. And it’s no secret that the show’s intense practices and routines are the real reason behind the slim-down.

“The dancing is the diet, but everyone is different,” professional dancer Karina Smirnoff tells Life & Style magazine. “So if celebrities really want to get the most out of the experience, they implement a healthy diet full of protein.”

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Hope everyone’s as excited about the premiere of season 9 of Dancing With The Stars as I am! It’s always amazing seeing the body transformations of some celebrities after the gruelling training they’re put through before a new season starts.

Denise Richards gained 10 pounds after her mother died, but the actress went from a size 26 to a 24-inch jeans after just 6 weeks training for season 8 of the dance contest. In the same season, rapper Lil’ Kim slimmed down and her fuller figure became more toned.

Professional dancers Cheryl Burke and Lacey Schwimmer, who have been with the show since season 2 and 7 respectively, both lost 10 pounds after partnering with their celebs.

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Reality star Kelly Osbourne has been in training for Dancing with the Stars for only three weeks and so far she has already lost 14 pounds. The 24-year-old has had quite the public battle with her weight over the years so she’s obviously feeling good about herself considering she has gone from a size 12/14 to a size 8/10. She told Closer Magazine,

“By the end of it I’ll be a lean, mean machine. It’s so amazing, I’ve tried so many stupid fad diets to try to lose weight, when all I needed to do was start dancing.”

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Mya, the Grammy-winning R&B singer is on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.  She recently told US Magazine that she lost 11 pounds in two months while dancing in rehearsals.  She said,

“I was 138 before I started dancing, then with pre-training with cardio, I came down to 132,”

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Celebrities such as Marie Osmond and Marissa Jaret Winokur have said that being a contestant on Dancing with the Stars has helped them lose weight.  There’s now a dancing celebrity, Kelly Osbourne, who has decided to be on the show for the upcoming season and she too plans on getting in shape.  She told Ryan Seacrest this week during his radio show that she’s actually terrified to be on the program but she’s ready for the challenge.  She explained,

“I’m not very graceful, so it’s just something that absolutely terrifies me, and it’s the main reason that I kind of wanted to do it. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something that scared me, and I don’t think anything could scare me more.”

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The world champion professional dancer Karina Smirnoff is a regular these days on Dancing with the Stars.  And even though she gets plenty of exercise through dance she also needs to do something to keep up her flexibility and remain toned.  According to People Magazine she does this with the help of Gyrotonics which strengthens the connective tissues around the joints.  Smirnoff said,

“Gyrotonics – it’s all based on resistance and you don’t actually use weights. You actually stretch out as you tone up.”

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In Marissa Jaret Winokur’s quest to lose weight before her People magazine photo shoot, the Dance Your Ass Off host has turned to Twitter for help.

Over the weekend the 36-year-old host found that her followers on Twitter offered her more support than her own family. Learning to tweet before she eats helped her choose a healthier option at Starbucks, while afterwards her “tweeters” congratulated and praised her for the choice.

“I guess strangers are like, ‘Come on, we can do this’, while my family is more like, ‘Oh, Marissa is on a diet again’,” Winokur blogged on People.

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The newly re-engaged Melissa Rycroft shared her latest weight loss tip with People Magazine this week: plan a wedding! The former The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars contestant got engaged to her on-again off-again boyfriend of two years, Tye Strickland, on June 26.

“I’ve heard the stress alone of planning a wedding helps you get into shape for it, so we’ll see if I need to stress myself out a little bit to lose that extra pound.”

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Dancing with the Stars hottie, Cheryl Burke, recently told People Magazine that she gets her inspiration to stay in shape from her equally hot boyfriend and model, Maxwell Zagorski.  She referred to him as a ‘health freak’ and by the looks of those pecs and abs in the photo above he’s obviously an exercise freak too.  Cheryl said,

“He loves to go to the gym and he motivates me, so it’s a good relationship we have!”

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