Maria Menounos: ‘I Gained About Six Pounds’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

This time around, in the show's Season 14, former sitcom star Jaleel White has said that he dropped 13 pounds thanks to all that boogying, while former "Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert insists that she started the show as a size 6, and was down to a size 2 by the time she was eliminated earlier this month. (Cue the yawns.) But one celebrity participant — entertainment reporter Maria Menounos, who got the boot the week after Gilbert — admits she had very different experience: She actually gained weight thanks to the dance floor.
"I actually got on the scale because I get so curious now — I never really weighed myself — but I gained about six pounds since I've started, she recently told OK! Magazine. But the slim and trim Menounos isn't all that concerned, since muscle weighs more than fat, after all. "It's all muscle. I'm super lean, and super tight. Dancing's an overall body workout, so it's pretty cool," she said in the interview, insisting she doesn't care what size she is. "I don't want to lose my curves. I certainly don't want to lose my butt," Derek [Hough, her pro partner] made a comment the other day like, 'I think you're losing your butt.' I was like, 'I am?!' He was like, 'No, I'm just kidding.'"