Kaitlyn Bristowe is still in pain from injuries she sustained on Dancing with the Stars five years ago.
If you forgot, the 40-year-old Bachelor alum won season 29 on the ABC competition series with pro Artem Chigvintsev back in 2020.
Keep reading to find out more…“I’m still suffering years later from cracked ribs,” Kaitlyn shared on Tori Spelling‘s podcast MisSpelling, which was released on September 10.
Tori – who was voted off first while appearing on season 33 of DWTS – said, “I wish I had known you before because then I could have gotten some tips on what to do.”
“I just would have said don’t injure yourself,” Kaitlyn told her. “That’s just — that was like my main focus, was to stop getting injured all the time.”
Although she said it was “worth the injuries,” Kaitlyn shared that along with cracking her ribs, she also pulled a muscle under her ribs.
“My tendonitis will flare up every time I wear heels now,” she added.
Despite the lingering pain all these years later, Kaitlyn is ready to do DWTS all over again.
“I’m like, I’ll do it again,” she said.
Tori then said that she didn’t know the potential for injury before joining DWTS last year.
“Those are things they do not tell you when they’re like, ‘You should sign on. And, like, you can do as much training as you want, as little training as you want, you know, whatever makes you comfortable,’” Tori noted.
Kaitlyn then admitted that she confronted friend and fellow Bachelor Nation star Hannah Brown, who won DWTS the year before her, about the toll the show would have on her body.
“I was like, ‘Why did you not prepare me?’” Kaitlyn recalled. “And she was like, ‘I don’t think people should prepare them because then they won’t do it.’”
Kaitlyn then noted that Hannah ended up sending her “a foot massage bath thing that I just, like, would soak my feet in,” adding that Hannah told her, “It’’s so worth it, but, like, it would be scary to know how much work and, like, injury you go through to get to the end.”
Dancing with the Stars returns for season 34 next week on Tuesday, September 16. See all 14 contestants competing on the new season here!