{"id":57704,"date":"2026-07-02T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=57704"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:40:59","slug":"i-didnt-care-what-it-took-former-dcc-holly-kotera-reveals-shocking-weekly-weigh-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/07\/02\/i-didnt-care-what-it-took-former-dcc-holly-kotera-reveals-shocking-weekly-weigh-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I didn&#8217;t care what it took&#8217;: Former DCC Holly Kotera reveals shocking &#8216;weekly weigh-ins&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/tag\/americas-sweethearts-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders\/\">DCC<\/a> Holly Kotera has claimed that each squad member was weighed each week in order to participate in the games. It&#8217;s insane, so here&#8217;s everything she said about the weigh-ins on the On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L23TZ3W1WP4\">SwifTea<\/a> podcast, because I am shooketh to the coreth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaBiXGZJtq4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaBiXGZJtq4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by swifTEA: Lake of the Ozarks Unfiltered (@swiftea.podcast)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Holly Kotera (formerly known as Holly Powell) dove into what it takes to go from a DCC to building one of the fastest-growing businesses at the Lake of the Ozarks. Around the 43 minute mark, Holly was asked about the weigh-ins, calling them &#8220;crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s wild is like some weigh in days I would wake up and be the weight that I was supposed to be, right? So, how do you wait till 4 pm to get weighed?&#8221; Holly claimed. She then revealed that some days she wouldn&#8217;t drink any water just to make the cut. &#8220;One water bottle is 16 ounces, which is a pound. So I couldn&#8217;t drink any water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She would even use extreme methods in order to make her weight.\u00a0&#8220;I would go sit in the sauna for like an hour and then weigh in good. But if you didn&#8217;t weigh in good, you couldn&#8217;t be in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L23TZ3W1WP4?si=6xd4bSM05wd72DFB&amp;start=2580\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cheering in 2015 to 2017 and appearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/06\/30\/what-has-courtney-cook-been-up-to-since-dcc-making-the-team\/\">DCC: Making the Team<\/a>, Holly was extremely dedicated to being a DCC and would do whatever it took.&#8221;I was going to be on that field no matter what. I didn&#8217;t care what it took,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I would go sit in the sauna sometimes for two hours and be like &#8216;Ah man, I&#8217;m a little bloated today I&#8217;ve got to figure it out.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for why they resorted to weigh-ins? She has one idea: &#8220;I think it was just that kind of kept you in check. That&#8217;s how they has always done it which was kind of outdated because they had this old graph which was like if you&#8217;re this height then you should weigh this amount. Like a BMI chart in high school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a dancer, Holly had more muscle compared to others. She explained that muscle weighs more than fat, but that didn&#8217;t matter when it came to the scale. So even though she was lean and healthy, her weight is what it ultimately came down to.<\/p>\n<p>She talks about losing two pounds towards the end of the season and that, &#8220;it had kind of messed me up a little bit because they&#8217;re like you look too skinny. You need to gain weight. I had this journey where I was 18, I didn&#8217;t know my body yet, and still had chubby cheeks from high school. 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