Ricki Lake: ‘Dancing’ does wonders for my arms

(PEOPLE.com) — Ricki Lake started dropping inches from a get-go while training for “Dancing with a Stars,” and now her swell continues.

“I’ve mislaid a lot of inches all over,” a singer and TV host, 43, tells PEOPLE. “Definitely in my arms, and my arms were quite one of a things we hated many about my body, so it’s good to see them slimming down.”

She also says she doesn’t design to be Hollywood skinny — and names Chynna Phillips and Jennifer Grey as examples — though aims to do what she can.

“I’ll never demeanour like these women and these veteran dancers,” she says.

But she does acknowledge to carrying a column underneath her clothes. “I’m wearing Brooke Burke’s Baboosh thing,” she pronounced during a use session, referring to a swell hang from Burke’s Baby Baboosh line. “Because it helps me with my posture, and it also creates me sweat.”

She says after dancing 5 hours a day with partner Derek Hough, “I’m exhausted. I’m committing to this 110 percent … entrance in with a good opinion … and going home and eating a offset meal. It’s unequivocally that simple.”

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