Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Responds To Body Shaming Comments

“I just really hope people realize not the effect you had on me because I spent years of my life body shaming myself, over-exercising, trying to make myself fit a certain mold.”

Former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Claire Wolford responded to the body-shaming she received, saying that years ago, the comments would have sent her “into a spiral.”

Wolford, who cheered for the Cowboys from 2020 to 2024 but is now an All-Star for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, which is a group of former Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders who are not officially a part of the team but instead work as fill-ins when needed and perform at pregame appearances, filled in for a cheerleader during the Thanksgiving game. She said it had been two years since she performed on the field, but said the “negative body shaming” comments she saw on a video of her needed to stop.

“I just really hope people realize not the effect you had on me because I spent years of my life body shaming myself, over exercising, trying to make myself fit a certain mold, ugh, I’m going to cry,” Wolford said in a TikTok posted Saturday. “And I have healed from that and feel so much better about where I’m at with body image and what God says about me.”

She continued: “But you never know who are triggering and there are girls who see that and maybe are not the same, maybe bigger than me, smaller than me, whatever, and it causes them to stumble.”

Several current Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders offered their support, writing in the comments that Wolford is a “role model,” “inspiration,” and thanking her for sharing “such an important message.”