Nancy Kerrigan Is “Always A Woman” 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

Former professional figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is competing on Season 24 of Dancing with the Stars with pro dance partner Artem Chigvintsev. She made headlines at the 1992 Olympics when she won a Bronze medal and in 1994 when she was attacked with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. One year later in 1995, Kerrigan married her agent Jerry Solomon. They have three children together.

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

For Kerrigan’s first dance on Dancing with the Stars, she and Artem will perform a Viennese Waltz to the Billy Joel song “She’s Always a Woman.” Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8pm on ABC.

[Left: Billy Joel’s “Always a Woman” is on his Greatest Hits album]