Sharna Burgess is lifting the lid on the struggles she has faced during her life as a pro dancer, admitting that she often struggled with food and suffered from an eating disorder in her younger years.

The 40-year-old, who won Dancing With the Stars’ 27th season with Bobby Bones, has always been candid about her past, and once again opted to be so as in an Instagram “Ask Me Anything” on Sunday, January 18.

Following questions on whether she would ever return to the ABC show after Bones claimed he had “cheated” to win, Burgess decided to talk about the struggles she faced as she came up in the dance world as a star.

“I struggled with binging and restricting mostly,” she admitted during the candid segment on her social media.

Her candor came after a fan asked her if she had struggled with an eating disorder, something she admitted was the result of a “super complicated relationship with food” as a teen and into her 20s, but that when she hit her 30s, her habits “changed.”

Burgess has previously been open about her struggles with her weight and her relationship with food, citing her career path, in an interview with Australia’s Good Health & Wellbeing magazine in 2021.

“I had a real struggle with my body because of dance,” she said at the time. “I remember being 15 and being put on the scale every two days by my teachers, and we were told whether we needed to lose weight or not.”

“Every week I was told that I needed to lose more weight–and I certainly wasn’t overweight.”

“It also started a negative pattern of eating whereby I’d binge one day, and then starve the next. I struggled with that throughout the years, even in my 20s, I’d look in the mirror and see the 15-year-old that was told every week she needed to lose more weight.”

She also credited joining the cast of Dancing With the Stars for changing her mindset, as she saw celebrities transform during their time on the show and loved how dance impacted their bodies.

“It was seeing just how much the celebrities on the show transformed and ended up loving their bodies through being able to move and dance that really shook my perspective. I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve been doing this my whole life.”

Burgess went on to compete on the show for Seasons 16-27, before returning for Seasons 29 and 30.

She won with Bones, placed second with Nick Carter, James Hinchcliffe, and Josh Norman in respective seasons, and took third with Noah Galloway.

Her final season saw her compete alongside now-fiance Brian Austin Green, whom she had begun dating a year prior. She left the show after welcoming their son, Zane, in 2022.