Former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe is opening up about the downside of “Dancing With the Stars.”

Bristowe, 40, won season 29 of “Dancing With the Stars” with partner Artem Chigvintsev in 2020. Five years later, she’s still feeling the toll the competition took on her body.

“I’m still suffering years later from cracked ribs and pulling a muscle that was under my ribs, and my tendonitis will flare up every time I wear heels now,” Bristowe said during a Wednesday, Sept. 10, appearance on Tori Spelling’s “misSPELLING” podcast. “But I’m like, ‘I’ll do it again.’”

Kaitlyn Bristowe. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The reality star noted that her friend and fellow Bachelor Nation alum Hannah Brown, who won season 28 of “DWTS” in 2019, didn’t warn her about what to expect.

“I was like, ‘Why did

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