Nancy Kerrigan, 47, Mom of 3, Doing Splits on ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Nancy Kerrigan, photo: Gianluca Platania, gianluca at Flickr, from Torino (Turin), Italy [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Season 24 of Dancing with the Stars has quite a few blast-from-the-past stars including Mr. T, Charo, SNL comedian Chris Kattan and Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan. Athletes, whether retired or not, have the advantage of agility on the dance floor and Kerrigan, 47, is no exception. The married mother of three can still do splits (see below).

[Left: Nancy Kerrigan wrote In My Own Words after she was attacked in 1994]

Kerrigan and her pro dance partner Artem Chigvintsev will perform a Viennese Waltz for their first performance (March 20) to the Billy Joel song “Always a Woman.” While Kerrigan says “It’s a great song,” she admits that dancing is “so opposite to what I do” on the ice rink. The one person Kerrigan has her eye on is four-time Gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles who “is in the best shape of her life right now.” Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8pm on ABC.

Weeee. Having fun and working hard for Monday nights first dance with my very patient partner! @artemchigvintse pic.twitter.com/F912ZOgvMu

— Nancy Kerrigan (@NancyAKerrigan) March 18, 2017