While vying for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy, more than a few Dancing With the Stars contestants have sustained injuries that have lingered long after the cameras stopped rolling.

In September 2025, DWTS season 29 winner Kaitlyn Bristowe said she is still dealing with issues surrounding her ballroom injury five years later.

“I would have said, ‘Don’t injure yourself,’” Bristowe said on Tori Spelling’s “Misspelling” podcast regarding advice she would have shared to herself. “That was my main focus: to stop getting injured all the time. [My win] was worth the injuries, yes, but I’m still suffering years later from cracked ribs and pulling a muscle that was under my ribs.”

Bristowe noted that her “tendonitis will flare up every time” she “wear[s] heels now.”

Kaitlyn Bristowe Says Her Rib

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