Witney Carson Pulls Off Epic Balancing Act With Her 2 ‘DWTS’ Mirrorball Trophies — and Fans Are Stunned
- - Witney Carson Pulls Off Epic Balancing Act With Her 2 ‘DWTS’ Mirrorball Trophies — and Fans Are Stunned
Grace GalanteDecember 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Witney Carson found a creative way to celebrate her latest Dancing With the Stars win.
The professional dancer earned her second Mirrorball Trophy on Nov. 25 with celebrity partner Robert Irwin. Her first win came over a decade earlier with now-host Alfonso Ribeiro — and she’s celebrating her return to the top by quite literally defying gravity.
On Thursday, Dec. 11, Carson posted a clip of her balancing on her two Mirrorball Trophies while wearing heels to Instagram. The video is based on a trend called the "Nicki Minaj Challenge," where people balance on a tall stack of random objects, cross their legs, and stand on one foot all while wearing heels.
The trend is inspired by Nicki Minaj’s pose in the music video for the 2013 song “High School” ft. Lil Wayne. At the music video’s 34 second mark, Minaj stands by a swimming pool in stilettos and crouches low to the ground with one leg crossed over the other.
Carson first participated in the trend over the summer, but only had one trophy at the time rather than two.
"You guys knew this was coming…." she captioned the post.
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In the comment section, fans were in awe of Carson for accomplishing the balancing act once again.
"A LITERAL ICON!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥," wrote one fan. "THAT’S MOTHER!!!🔥🔥🔥 how you did this I’ll never understand." commented another.
"You win this trend," added a third. "Wow you are so brave and with your boots. Is there anything you can’t do?" said a fourth.
Carson's DWTS castmates also praised the longtime pro dancer for the feat.
"HOT!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥," wrote Emma Slater. "Yeaaaa 🔥🔥🔥." commented Jan Ravnik.
"I still don’t understand how you do this," added season 33 champion Joey Graziadei.
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Carson also recently opened up about doubting her abilities after losing DWTS 12 times after her first win.
“It meant the world to me to win, and not only because I feel like it’s been a really long time, like, all of my efforts for the last 10 years, just the loss after loss after loss, it can get really hard and really defeating,” Carson explained during the Tuesday, Dec. 9 episode of the Viall Files podcast. “I felt like I was very defeated in the fact that, am I even supposed to be on this show? Am I even good? You kind of go back into those fears and those doubts of, I don’t even know, am I good anymore?”
“So the fact that I did win after all these years was just, it kind of gave me a confidence of, okay, I can do this. I’m meant to be here,” she added.
The season 34 DWTS finale marked Carson’s 8th appearance in the finals. She has placed 1st twice, 2nd twice, and 3rd twice.
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