Maura Higgins says she's 'struggling so much' as she shares glum selfie from Dancing With The Stars rehearsals

Maura Higgins looked downcast as she admitted she is 'struggling so much this week'. 

The Love Island star, 35, is competing on Dancing With The Stars alongside her professional dance partner Mark Ballas. 

But the pressure seemed to be getting the better of Maura as she shared a glum selfie on her Instagram stories during rehearsals. 

The television personality looked exhausted as she lay on a sofa and wiped her eye. 

She captioned the post: 'Struggling so much this week' followed by a crying face emoji. 

It comes after Maura transformed into 'vampire mode' during Horror Movie Night on Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday. 

The Love Island star sank her teeth into partner Mark Ballas as they closed the hit competition with a powerful Contemporary inspired by The Lost Boys. 

Maura wowed in a blood covered white dress with spooky white contact lenses and her brunette tresses in a wet loose do. 

The reality star was under a lot of pressure as her professional dancer partner's mum Shirley Ballas, 66, was a guest judge on this week's ABC show. 

But there was no favouritism in sight as she scored the pair lower than the rest of the judging panel. 

The model, who performed shoeless, had her footwork critiqued by the Queen of Latin, 'rotate your feet a little bit more for flow,' she said. 'Once you get that, everything will start to flow.'

Shirley added: 'I like the dynamic parts where you use the height changes. You have the lifts; you go down towards the floor. It was powerful. Your arms are getting quite better.'

Fellow judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli all praised Maura for being a 'phenomenal and magnetic performer'.

Bruno said: 'This girl, you throw a sack at her, it looks amazing. You have a fantastic lyrical quality, and you are a magnetic performer.

'Now, in Contemporary, now you have to learn to get everything from the ground through the body and really get it coming from the floor.'

Derek added: 'Maura, you are a phenomenal performer, and you made that weirdly and creepily seductive.' 

The TV personality scored a seven from Shirley with eights and a nine from the fellow judges for a total of 32 points.

Maura added: 'I weirdly loved it. I wish we could do this every week!'

The Celebrity Traitors US star later shared a gallery of snaps to Instagram and penned: 'Vampire mode @dancingwiththestars'.

Actor Harry Shum Jr and his professional dance partner Jenna Johnson topped the leaderboard with a perfect score of 40.

But it was a double elimination week which saw reality star Tyler Cameron and his partner Sharna Burgess and baseball player Jackson Olson and his dance partner Emma Slater leave the dancefloor.