Samantha Harris Says DWTS Producers Wanted Her “Pasty & Pudgy”

The former E! News correspondent recalled being “stunned” by the alleged comment because she “took pride” in staying so fit. 

However, Harris accepted their feedback, in part because she was pregnant with daughter Josselyn Sydney Hess, now 16.

“Of course, I said, ‘Okay, of course, no problem. I got that covered’ because little did they know—it was too early for me to share yet—I was pregnant,” she explained. “So I wasn’t going to be tanning, because I didn’t know what the chemicals were that would be seeping into my body, and I was gonna be gaining weight.”

E! News has reached out to ABC for comment but hasn’t heard back.