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Become a first pro dancer onDancing And playing every week in front of millions of viewers sounds breathtaking enough, but for a pro, it was hardly the most difficult thing it was going through at the time. WhenWitney Carson was promoted with a professional dance partner for the spring season 2014 - she had previously been a troop dancer - she crossed certain health problems.Carson had received a diagnosis of melanoma And suffered two surgeries just before its promotion.

In a new interview withPeople, Carson, now 28, saidShe didn't tell the producers Because she was too "embarrassed". She also started to repeat before being authorized by her doctor, which led to another problem. Read the rest to see what Carson had to say and to find out why she felt that she couldn't talk to anyone in the show of her health.

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Carson received a melanoma diagnosis only a few weeks before leaving for Los Angeles to filmDwtsin 2014.

"I finally received this call which would simply skyrocket my career. It was my dream," she saidPeople. "All of a sudden, I am diagnosed with melanoma and of course, being myself, I say to myself" that's fine. I can always go on the show. ""

According to Mayo Clinic,Melanoma is "The most serious type of skin cancer." It "develops in cells (melanocytes) which produce melanin - the pigment that gives your skin its color. Melanoma can also form in your eyes and, rarely, inside your body, as in your nose or throat ".

Carson had to undergo surgery on foot and on his hip.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"They took an inch in diameter around the mole on my foot as well as all my lymph nodes in my left hip," said Carson. "He spread so quickly and they had to get rid of the lymph nodes and there was a lot of healing time. I think I took six weeks and then I went directly toDance with the stars. My foot was wrapped. I still had stitches. ""

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Carson said that she was reluctant to talk to producers about the issuance of her diagnosis and her surgeries because she did not want to be considered unhealthy.

"I think I was embarrassed solely that I was athlete and that I was supposed to encompass everything that is healthy and in good shape," she said. "I was supposed to do all the good things to be an athlete, and so it was embarrassing for me to be like:" Yes, I had, I was sick. I was literally ill. "The producers did not know. My partner did not know. I wanted people to think I was in perfect health."

Carson's partner in his first season as a singer was a singerCody Simpson. The pair came to ninth place. The following season, Carson and his partner actorAlfonso Ribeiro brought back the mirror trophy.

Carson started working on the emission without approval of his doctor.

"I walk in my first day of rehearsals; I am just in its own right," she said. "The doctor did not succeed for nothing active. I just decided to do it anyway because how could I not? This is my dream."

She remembered having finished a routine during this period and realizing that she had caused another problem. "I say to myself:" My foot feels so sweat. I am so sweaty. It's so weird ", and I looked down and my white tennis shoe is just covered with blood, just covered with blood," said Carson. "I opened my points.

There are two reasons why Carson presented an increased risk of developing melanoma. First, bothHer parents had been diagnosed With that earlier.

"My mother was not as serious as that of my father, but they were categorical about us, the children, we are verified every six months," she saidParade In 2019. She said about her father: "I knew that melanoma was something serious because with my father, he spread to his lungs and he honestly died because of this. ""

Second, Carson has often used tanning beds in adolescence. "Each week after high school, I would be in the tanning beds," she said. "I thought I was invincible. I thought I was young and in good health and fundamentally nothing could touch me."

Carson saidPeople, "I haven't set foot in a tanning bed since I was diagnosed, which was 19 years."

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In his interview withParade, Carson said that she was "ashamed" of the scar on her foot at the beginning, because "being a dancer, you want to be in perfect health. If you have a disease or something that does not go with you, Less for me, it was as I was inadequate in some way. "But, she continued," I realized one day that it was a battle scar and I had survived something to 'Quite serious. "

She now wants to raise awareness of melanoma and help others.

"I have devoted a lot of time to make sure people, especially young adults, know how to protect their skin," she saidParade. "Stay outside the UV tanning beds, wear a sunscreen, cover yourself," let's not go to the sun. I started to hear about university campuses with UV tanning beds on the campus and it scared me because it causes melanoma. And I know it caused mine. ""