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Two episodes into a new season of Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a>, contestant Danielle Fishel<\/a> is offering an up-close look at the brutal injury she’s already sustained.<\/p>\n

The Boy Meets World <\/em>alum shared footage Friday showing her lip syncing to “Cater 2 U,” the 2005 song from Destiny’s Child, as she looks over a massively bruised leg. She added the words, “How I talk to my knees after 4 weeks of rehearsal and 2 live shows.”<\/p>\n

She captioned the clip, “I promise my leg feels better than it looks.” Punctuating it with the laughing and crying face emoji.<\/p>\n

See her post below.<\/p>\n

The actress is paired this season with pro Pasha Pashkov. The two have already danced the tango and, in the second episode, a cha-cha to the song “Rhythm of the Night” by Corona for One-Hit Wonders Night.<\/p>\n

“I have a hamstring tear that happened here at dance,\u201d Fishel explained to Entertainment Tonight <\/em><\/a>after her performance, \u201cand then I had a deep tissue massage, and it broke every blood vessel in the back of my leg.”<\/p>\n

She added that a cartwheel quickly followed by a split was “a lot,” referring to a move she performed on the live show, injury and all.<\/p>\n

Fishel was pushing through the pain, she said, and her doctor has told her he is treating her as if she were an athlete competing in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Fishel, who relied on body makeup during her dance, needn’t have worried, because she and Pashkov were safe.<\/p>\n

On the Sept. 17 episode of Fishel’s podcast, Danielle With the Stars<\/em><\/a>, she flagged how she’d already been hurt.<\/p>\n

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“Right before I went out for the live show, after having gone all out for five other runs for dress rehearsal and practice, my legs started really getting tight and I was like, ‘What am I going to do?'” she said. “And I kept trying to stretch a little bit, wasn’t really working. It was really cramping and then adrenaline just took over in the middle of the dance and I was able to do it.”<\/p>\n

Fishel and the other 11 celebrity contestants who remain in the competition are set to return to the dance floor on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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