'I wanted people to think I was perfectly healthy.'
Carson said she was reluctant to tell the show's producers about her diagnosis and surgeries, because she didn't want to be thought of as unhealthy.
"I think I was embarrassed only in the fact that I was an athlete and I was supposed to be encompassing everything healthy and fit," she said."I was supposed to be doing all the right things to be an athlete, and so it was embarrassing for me to be like, 'Yes, I had, I was sick. I was literally sick.' The producers didn't know. My partner didn't know. I wanted people to think I was perfectly healthy.". The pair came in ninth place.
She remembered completing a routine during that time and realizing that she had caused another issue."I'm like, 'My foot feels so sweaty. I'm so sweaty. This is so weird,' and I looked down and my white tennis shoe is just covered in blood, just covered in blood," Carson said."Ripped my stitches open. I had to get my foot wrapped every week after I did the live show. So if you go back through the videos, you'll see my left foot wrapped in gauze.
Second, Carson often used tanning beds as a teen."Every single week after high school I would be in the tanning beds," she said."I thought I was invincible. I thought I was young and healthy and basically nothing could touch me."READ THIS NEXT: