DCC’s Victoria ‘putting energy elsewhere’ as she was left feeling unclear about future on team
Victoria has now officially retired from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders team, after sharing her mental health and body image struggles on the America’s Sweethearts Netflix show. With initial plans to return for a fifth season of the Cowboys, life totally changed for Victoria when she decided to quit DCC. The Netflix star now plans to […]
Victoria has now officially retired from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders team, after sharing her mental health and body image struggles on the America’s Sweethearts Netflix show.
With initial plans to return for a fifth season of the Cowboys, life totally changed for Victoria when she decided to quit DCC. The Netflix star now plans to “put her energy elsewhere” in performing.
Victoria suddenly leaves DCC behind
Victoria decided to retire from Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders after she was left unsure whether she’d be kept on or move on during a meeting. However, she’d had no idea about how the meeting would go.
She had “full on intentions” to do a fifth year with the team, still wanting to give more to the organization. The star told Time, “I felt as though, no matter what I did, I was never going to ride that career ladder.”
“As a performer, you always want to strive to be better, and I know that I didn’t want to spend another year being the same. I would love to do nothing but perform because that is my dream,” she added.
Victoria “also would have liked to have known whether I was going to be moving on.” When she “didn’t get that specific answer,” she thought, “Okay, I want to put my energy and techniques somewhere else.”
She recently moved to New York and hopes to be hired for a performing job on the East Coast. “I will definitely miss the reactions and the impact that you know wearing that star holds for people,” she said.
Cheerleader opens up on body image
Victoria had never been open about body image and mental health, but promised she’d be her full, authentic self on camera. She said, “My depression turns into this bad cycle.”
“Whenever I get into a bad depression, I turn to bad coping skills, which causes bad eating habits. And as a dancer, the hardest thing you can fight are eating disorders plus depression,” she added.
Victoria continued, “I go through the cycle when that depression zone hits. It’s a binge-purge cycle. It’s a binge to get that feel-good, that empty feeling filled again. You have got to get into that uniform.”
WATCH AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS ON NETFLIX NOW