Sharna Burgess is opening up about her past struggle with an eating disorder.

On Sunday, Jan. 18, theDancing with the Starsalum posted on her Instagram Stories and allowed for followers to ask her any questions. One person replied and asked the 40-year-old if she’s ever had a history with eating disorders.

“I struggled with binging and restricting mostly,” she replied. “I had a super complicated relationship with food as a teen and (in) my 20s.”

Although Burgess didn’t provide any further details, she shared that she has since overcome that battle and her relationship with food “changed” once she entered her 30s.

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Back in 2021, Burgess first opened up about dealing with body dysmorphia growing up and how that influenced her lifestyle habits. “I had a real struggle with my body because of dance,” she told Australia’sGood Health & Wellbeing.

“I remember being 15 and 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 weight – and I certainly wasn’t overweight.”

“While dance was something that I needed in my life, it definitely instilled a negative body image,” she continued. “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 weight.”

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Burgess said that what ultimately shifted her long-standing perspective was joiningDWTSin 2011.

“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,” she recalled.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve been doing this my whole life.’ I started to see something else in the mirror, I started to see a body that had gotten me through some incredibly difficult times, that had created some beautiful moments, that had won championships, that had landed me a life I never ever thought possible,” she said at the time. “When we get a negative body image as a child, it can take us a very long time to shake it and to see ourselves differently. For me, however, that was my first turning point.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, The Alliance for Eating Disorders provides a fully-staffed helpline at 1-866-662-1235, as well as free, therapist-led support groups.