Derek Hough<\/a><\/strong> told Jen he \u201ccan\u2019t believe\u201d she had just welcomed a baby in July, praising her \u201cgreat\u201d first outing while noting that the lifts slowed things down. Bruno Tonioli encouraged her to loosen up and \u201cgo through the steps\u201d because, as he reminded her, \u201cYou\u2019ve got it!\u201d<\/p>\nJen later confessed that \u201cit\u2019s a lot and my body hurts,\u201d but she added that her motivation comes from her family. \u201cI\u2019m doing it for my kids so they can do this too.\u201d With a score of 12 out of 20, Jen and Jan landed in the middle of the pack, but their chemistry and determination have fans rooting for them.<\/p>\n
With many more episodes to go, it remains to be seen who will claim the trophy this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Dancing With the Stars” contestant Jen Affleck is quickly becoming one of the season\u2019s most talked-about competitors. The 26-year-old influencer, who rose to fame on TikTok before starring in Hulu\u2019s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” returned to the spotlight just weeks after giving birth in July. Now, she\u2019s balancing grueling rehearsals, long hours in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[41508,343995,374939,353611,344311],"class_list":["post-2032298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-derek-hough","tag-idk-julianne","tag-jen-affleck","tag-julianne-hough"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Julianne-Hough-Faces-Backlash-Over-Jen-Affleck-Pregnancy-Question-On.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}