Sharna Burgess' Emotional Struggle Balancing DWTS and Motherhood

Sharna Burgess and her fiancé, Brian Austin Green, work hard to balance their respective careers with family — but it isn’t always easy. “I don't think there is a secret. I think sometimes we nail it and sometimes we don't,” Burgess, 41, exclusively told Us after the Tuesday, October 13, episode of Dancing With the Stars. “I think that's life. And yeah, and it just ebbs and flows, and you try and be a good team and you try and figure it out.” Burgess and Green, 53, have been together since 2020, welcoming son Zane two years later. After the couple’s engagement in 2023, Burgess returned to the DWTS ballroom for season 35 to dance with Bachelor Nation’s Tyler Cameron. (Green has recently been absent from the live shows in order to care for Zane and his older children from previous relationships.) At the end of the competition, Burgess will briefly join the live DWTS tour.

“I'm so excited to go back on tour with everyone,” she said on Tuesday. “My life is not a life where I could just leave for three months. I can't take Zane with me, like, there's a lot of things in it.” According to Burgess, she agreed to go on the road for only “a couple weeks at a time.”

“We're figuring out how to sprinkle me in there,” she said. “That's nothing unusual for our life, going away and working for a few weeks at a time. A few months [is] definitely different.” During Tuesday’s Super Bowl Night, Burgess and Cameron, 33, scored a total 30 out of 40 for their jazz routine inspired by the Black Eyed Peas’ 2011 halftime show. The pair narrowly survived elimination over Guillermo Rodriguez and Witney Carson. “We've been hanging in the bottom of the barrel for a minute now, so it seems like I know the humidity and the weather down here,” Cameron told Us. “I would like to get out of it, so hopefully next week we have a great moment and we find ourselves out of that bottom. … I promise you, the scores will get better. Just keep voting, y'all.”