Former 90210 and Charmed star Shannen Doherty is ready to get in shape while competing as a contestant for the 10th season of Dancing with the Stars. The naturally slim actress isn’t a hardcore exerciser and she admitted that she hasn’t worked out since she ended her work with the Charmed series. Likewise, she’s a little worried about her endurance for the dancing reality show. When it comes to the dancing Doherty’s only experience is from her tap dancing days when she was a little girl but she’s looking forward to the challenge. She explained,

“I’m going to get in great shape, and everyone who I know who’s been on the show has had a great time,” she says. “It’s with hesitation and fear, but it’s going to be good to conquer a fear.”

Doherty is very nervous about the idea of performing in front of a live audience and she will often break out in hives and have panic attacks. But for DWTS she had a change of heart and was inspired to do the show when her father, who recently had a stroke, encouraged her to confront her fears.

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Lose weight like your favorite stars by dancing of the pounds with the fitness DVD Dancing with the Stars: Dance Off the Pounds.  Professional dancers Lacey Schwimmer, Dmitry Chaplin and Kym Johnson will take your through the jive, swing and quickstep routines that’ll get your heart racing and your legs pumping.

The 52-minute DVD, released by Lionsgate, will help you burn fat as you learn the signature moves and literally dance your way to a superstar body. If you’re looking for pure cardio and have always wanted to be dancer-fit, pop this DVD into your media player and let the calorie-blasting routines sweat the pounds out of your system.

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The Dancing with the Stars tv show is famous for helping celebs melt off the pounds and now you can too, at home! Dancing with the Stars: Dance Body Tone was released in December and teaches viewers how to not only dance off the pounds but also gracefully pull of the professional moves like the celebrity contestants. 
The 52-minute DVD features professional dancers Lacey Schwimmer, Dmitry Chaplin and Kym Johnson who will help you dance your way through three different routines: Latin, Tango and a jazz-funk freestyle.

So go ahead and give it a try; it’s the most fun you’ll have as you work your way to a sexy, superstar body. And you don’t even need a partner.

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Lacy Schwimmer has been a dancer on Dancing with the Stars for three seasons now and no one every realized that during this whole time she has been struggling with an eating disorder. Last week, she spoke with Maria Menounos from Access Hollywood and explained that in the upcoming issue of InTouch magazine she talks about her illness and the photos of her in the magazine from when she was too thin. In reference to the photo of her in pajamas she said,

“My waist is insanely thin; my hair was starting to fall out; it was getting thin. My skin looked gray and that’s when… I was like, ‘Alright, this isn’t cool.’ I saw other girls that were healthy and happy at my age and I was not like that whatsoever.”

Lacey explained that her disorder started when she was just 13 years old and she was dancing 10 hours a day. At the time she would only eat a packet of turkey a day and she would often skip meals. She said,

“I skipped breakfast and I would eat at around like 2, 3 o’clock and then I would have a candy bar for dinner and just drink orange juice throughout the day.”

At the age of 18, the dancer discovered that Britney Spears was taking diet pills so she too did the same. Then at 19 when she joined DWTS she relapsed into bad behaviors and wasn’t eating and continued to abuse diet pills. After a couple of seasons on the show feeling big and guilty she has finally learned to love what she sees in the mirror. She said,

“I am comfortable in my own skin finally.”

Perhaps in the upcoming issue of In Touch will learn how she actually beat the eating disorder.

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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. She said,

“Aside from dancing, I do boxing workouts, I jump rope, do crunches and interval training.”

The 30-year-old said that she burned a lot of fat and gained muscle while on the show and she feels like she’s in the best shape of her life. Mya also mentioned that while on the set there was a lot of the flu going around and she did have some flu-like symptoms but she’s ok now.

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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.”

The 31-year-old beauty fills her daily diet with egg whites, spinach and tomato for breakfast, fruit for lunch and fish and salad for dinner. The 5-foot-5 dancer weighs only 110 pounds and says she listens to her body because there are foods her system easily digests while there are others that are harder to work off.

Other celebrities who have lost weight on the new season of the reality show are Kelly Osbourne and singer Mya. The 24-yeard-old Osbourne lost 14 pounds during the first 6 weeks of rehearsals and says she can feel how her body is “completely changing”.

Mya on the other hand says she’s not only lost weight, but she’s toned her muscles too.

“My body has gotten more toned,” she told Life & Style when rehearsals for the show began. “I’m seeing a lot more definition, especially in my arms.”

The 30-year-old singer lost 11 pounds in 4 weeks, but still occasionally runs twice a day.

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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.”

Kelly also said that her life has changed because of her experience on the show now that she feels healthy and strong. Apart from her daily 5-hour-long rehearsals she does Pilates twice a week. She said,

“Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I’m even starting to get muscles on my tummy – it’s incredible. I’ve become totally obsessed with Pilates, everyone should try it.”

With the DWTS season just beginning, we’ll have to wait and see how much more weight she loses. Let’s just hope she learns that exercise is the key and that she’ll continue dancing and doing Pilates once the show is finished.

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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,”

She compared prepping for DWTS to boot camp where one has to rest, eat properly and focus in order to keep up.  This season the producers are only allowing the dance couples to rehearse up to five hours a day because of injuries in the past season.  For example, Jewel and Nancy O’Dell had to leave the competition early because they over did it while rehearsing.  But still, five hours is a lot of dancing which explains why Mya has lost weight so quickly.  She also said that she became a vegetarian two months ago but she is being careful not to deprive herself in order to keep up with the five hour workouts.  She said,

“My weight may change after I stuff my face!” she jokes. “My weakness is the pasta and the rice!”

DWTS premieres on September 21 and Mya will be dancing with Dmitry Chaplin.

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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.”

Kelly went on to explain that she’s not too concerned about winning but that she wants to do something that she’s scared to do and that she is excited about losing weight.  She said,

“My body is going to get sick and be toned.”

Other celebrities for season 9 of the show include Kathy Ireland, Donny Osmond, Melissa Joan Hart and Aaron Carter.

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