Dancing With The Stars' last woman Kylie Gillies loves every minuteAS SHE shakes her behind, with its fringe of tassels and sequins, popular TV personality Kylie Gillies doesn't have a care in the world except when it comes to exposing her stomach in a barely-there costume.
"Here I am 42, wiggling my backside on television in fringe and beading, I ain't feeling no pressure," laughs the presenter, who is still out of breath after ditching booty-shake rehearsals with Carmelo Pizzino for this interview.
"I said, 'I don't want to show my tummy, but I will get my legs out for you'."
It is hard to wipe the smile off Gillies's face, which is surprising, considering how jam-packed her already busy life has been lately. Sure, she is tired after juggling rising at 5.20am each weekday to co-host The Morning Show with Larry Emdur, playing attentive mother to her children, Gus, 6, and Archie, 4, and wife to her husband of 20 years, media executive Tony, 49.
After spending her 20s on the road doing what she recalls as daunting on-the-spot news segments, Gillies admits that while she is tired from combining her existing responsibilities with learning how to swivel her hips for Dancing With The Stars, she is ready to lap up the success.
"I am a late bloomer," she says. "I have thought about why things worked out the way they have. I think it is maturity and acceptance and realising there are some things you are good at in life and some maybe you're not. I think it's an acceptance of who you are and not trying to be anyone else. Some people realise that when they are 25, but it just took me a little bit longer."
With Gillies juggling so many balls, sometimes there can be a minor tumble. But she picks herself back up, although the emotion of taking on many roles sometimes triggers the waterworks, as Dancing With The Stars viewers have come to know.
"It's gruelling, there are no days off. I am exhausted," she admits. "You make so many time sacrifices and have so much invested, you couldn't do this if you didn't love it because you would quit before the show started. I am seeing more of Carmelo or Larry than I am of my husband these days, it feels like I have three husbands. Poor Tony gets the leftovers. He gets tired, cranky Kylie for about an hour between 7.30 and 8.30 at night. Poor bloke. But I'm loving it. Tiring equals weight loss."
Before Dancing With The Stars Gillies had no fitness, something the program has helped turn around. Now she's happy to be sashaying around the dance floor looking fabulous in her 40s.
"I haven't weighed myself, I don't have any scales, but I know I've lost centimetres," she says.
"I had zero fitness, now I can feel myself getting toned in the arms and I've lost centimetres around my middle and my legs and bum have a bit more shape."
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