Hope Solo Dancing Muscles

Hope Solo on Anderson, ‘Dancing With The Stars told me, I had too much muscle’ (video)

Ben Chew | Nov 26, 2011, 4:10 PM EST

Earlier in the week, USA women’s soccer goalie Hope Solo dropped by Anderson Cooper’s new daytime show, “Anderson” to talk about her ousting from ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

During the interview, Solo stated that she was not pleased with the way producers portrayed her on the show along with the fact that she felt the judges were too critical of her intensity and her muscular figure:

“I was very naive going into it,” she explained. “It is very much reality television I think from day one they casted our characters. And we would be rehearsing for seven hours a day. Maks and I were great friends and we had an endearing relationship. The 45 minutes in the whole seven hours that were the most frustrating where I am curing and kicking walls is what America got to see.”

“I was told I had too much muscle and I was too intense and wasn’t dainty,” Solo said.

Below is the video of the full interview: