Where Nia Sioux Stands With Her Dance Moms Costars After Skipping Reunion
Dance Moms Nia Sioux may furthermore have bowed out of the series' present reunion, however—as she detailed to E! News—she did crew up with fellow alum Kenzie Ziegler for a in actuality vital psychological smartly being marketing campaign.
Obtain to declare Nia Sioux isn't a put-your-tears-for-your-pillow form.
Because it turned into as soon as an enthusiastic sure for the Dance Moms alum when a buddy requested if she'd relate a series of videos for the Advert Council's “Take the Awkward” marketing campaign showing that a check-in with a buddy needn't be a entire, heart-broken production.
“Moderately plenty of folk war with their psychological smartly being, in conjunction with me,” she explained in an full of life interview with E! News. “And it's a large message sharp no longer handiest are there folk outside that can encourage you, however you would furthermore lean on a chum as smartly.”
And the quickly-to-be UCLA grad is lucky enough to have a large crew at the attend of her.
There's Kenzie Ziegler, a fellow Dance Moms OG, who agreed to appear in the Advert Council marketing campaign, a collab with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Jed Foundation. “I'm in actuality grateful for our friendship,” said Nia, noting she will be able to't in fact bear in mind life forward of they linked as young folk. “And I'm joyful that she turned into as soon as so begin to talking about psychological smartly being. I know the draw this self-discipline turned into as soon as so terminate to her coronary heart.”
And then there's the the relaxation of the squad who would never have dreamed of knocking the Pittsburgh native, 22, down the pyramid for her decision to lag on the Could well well furthermore impartial 1 reunion.
“I'm gathered so terminate to your entire women,” she said of Chloé Lukasiak, Paige Hyland, Brooke Hyland, Kendall Vertes, Kalani Hilliker and JoJo Siwa. “And they had been so supportive of my decision of no longer doing it. They even texted me, devour, we entirely realize, it's a exhausting decision to assemble.”
She, in turn, turned into as soon as pleased with them for recounting their days of residing on the dance ground “because that is exhausting,” said Nia. “And so mighty of our lives had been on television. But they had been in actuality respectful when it came to that. And I also respect their decision as smartly.”
She remains tight with the crew, excitedly RSVPing sure to attend Paige's birthday birthday celebration the evening forward of the November taping.
“It turned into as soon as in actuality good to catch to survey the ladies,” she recalled. “That just about never happens when we're all collectively.” But when it does, it's as if no time has passed since they had been all clad in matching sequins. “We had been all site visitors forward of the insist even started,” she noted, “so getting collectively, there's something so heartwarming to know that we're all splendid now.”
But she has no regrets about bowing out of the Lifetime reunion itself.
“Presumably at a later date, I shall be begin to talking about it,” acknowledged Nia, “But I in actuality feel devour it splendid wasn't the correct time. And I'm in actuality joyful with my decision, too.”
She's in particular proud that her explanation of why she didn't attend—moderately simply, she didn't must and, as she attach it in her April 30 TikTok, that's enough—has resonated with followers.
“I know folk may desire more answers,” she allowed. “But, that's an respond. Correct asserting no, is an respond.”
And her reminder that no is ceaselessly a entire sentence has resonated with the 9 million-plus followers who apply her on TikTok.
“I saw some feedback asserting they had been in actuality pleased with me for inserting myself first, and that they must remember that at any time when there's something that they don't must attain, that they don't must attain it,” explained Nia. “In notify that turned into as soon as in actuality rewarding to survey because I wasn't even expecting it to hit folk devour that. I'm at a notify in my life the put I'm looking out to make particular I'm no longer doing something else that I in actuality don't must attain.”
And that's splendid one draw she's realized to prioritize her psychological smartly being in the years since she distanced herself from dance teacher Abby Lee Miller and her seemingly never-ending circulate of critiques and insults.
“Correct being a dancer in regular, it may perhaps steal a toll for your psychological smartly being,” said Nia. “And that goes for any make of athlete, in actuality.” Whereas she acknowledges that all sorts of folk can war with any series of psychological smartly being factors, “I splendid know, as a dancer, it doubtlessly started as soon as I turned into as soon as younger.”
As she's matured, she's gotten better at shutting out the haters that now near in the make of nameless, faceless social media avatars “however I'm no longer going to lie, it gathered gets to me ceaselessly,” Nia acknowledged. “I don't care who says that detest feedback don't catch to them, in some unspecified time in the future they attain. Not ceaselessly, however every as soon as rapidly there's individual that in fact hurts.”
Soundless, she does her handiest to tune out the imperfect seeds and focal point on the wonder. “Not each person has to must devour me,” said Nia, “however splendid sharp at the attend of your suggestions that for one and all comment that any individual leaves that's so adverse and hateful, there's thousands of diversified feedback which shall be so very excellent and so glowing.”
And it undoubtedly helps that nearly the total folk pumping her up are her extinct castmates, Brooke recently chiming in on a commute snap to remind her that she's “STUUUUUUNNING.”
No question they'll be posting all formulation of congratulations when Nia collects her UCLA diploma subsequent month.
And after that, she's hoping to “relate more and act more and utter more and splendid compose in regular,” says The Bold and The Elegant alum. “Literally performing in any element.” Even truth TV is on the desk: “I'd doubtlessly attain it in a particular draw.” (And, no tension, however may furthermore gathered she and boyfriend of two years Gabriel Hawkins resolve to steal that subsequent step in some unspecified time in the future, she noted, “I fancy Enlighten Sure to the Dress.”)
Largely, although, she has an imprint out for initiatives devour her Advert Council marketing campaign that can in actuality switch the social needle.
Her plan is to let folk know that you would furthermore attain a transient check-in with a buddy whereas you're driving, at dinner or splendid mid-hang. “It doesn't can must be so forced,” explained Nia. “And then that draw, it creates an even bigger notify for folk to begin up about their feelings.”
If her directorial debut “helps even one person, I in actuality have completed my job,” she persevered. “On the quit of the day, I splendid must encourage folk.”
Of direction, she's no longer the handiest Dance Moms alum who's in actuality residing on and off the dance ground. Price in on how she and the the relaxation of the solid are facing their lives as soloists.
Maddie Ziegler
In the decade-plus for the reason that Pennsylvania native pirouetted her draw into our hearts as the unquestionable superstar of the Abby Lee Dance Company, she's jeted her draw from electropop superstar Sia's song video darling to movie actress with appearances in Sia's directorial debut Music and the 2021 West Side Legend remake.
She also launched a New York Times handiest-selling memoir, 2017's The Maddie Diaries, judged a unique reduce of expertise on So You Judge You Can Dance: The Next Expertise and teamed with younger sister Kenzie Ziegler for his or her Take 20 With Maddie and Kenzie podcast. “I have we wished to let our guards down and insist something that wasn't so intently produced,” Maddie explained to E! News, “and, moderately, splendid us having a moderately casual dialog.”
For her subsequent act, she's eyeing her have beauty empire. “I’d fancy to realize my have line one day,” she said. “I have which may be so very excellent and something that I've dreamt of doing eternally.”
Kenzie Ziegler
Fully graduated from her acro days, one in every of the singer's most fashionable releases turned into as soon as 2023's “Anatomy,” a in actuality inner most combat detailing her relationship with her estranged father. “I for sure am stepping out of my comfort zone,” she told People of the single, “and being genuine in a particular draw that’s no longer splendid on social media—I’m telling my story.”
And with all due respect to the almost 15 million Dance Moms followers who apply her on Instagram, she's looking out to dig a chunk of deeper for her coming near third album. “I in actuality feel devour right here’s splendid the first time the put I can focus on things that have came about with my life and fragment some vital things to me,” she told E! News. “I splendid desire folk to steal away something from it—whether that be joyful, whether that be sad or that they’ll expose to it.”
Chloe Lukasiak
Nearly a decade after she took her closing Dance Moms bow, the trophy-gathering soloist is able to begin residing on the dance ground another time.
“I skipped over dance, and I wished to catch one draw to catch attend to something I had appreciated so mighty,” the Girl on Pointe: Chloe's Data to Taking up the World creator explained of launching Elevé Nationwide Dance Opponents with mother Christi Lukasiak and fellow mother-daughter duo Diane and Brittany Pent. “But I wished to encourage create something that turned into as soon as the particular opposite of what I had experienced. One thing sure. I challenged myself to assemble something to reignite my fancy of dance.”
Among the diversified loves of the actress’ life: The Lifetime series’ OG squad. Sharing a Could well well furthermore impartial 2023 catch-in conjunction with Nia Sioux on Instagram, the Pepperdine College grad wrote, “Undoubtedly one of my sisters from one other mama.”
Nia Sioux
The OG firm member (and demise drop fanatic) continues to demolish in song (she dropped her single “Low Key Like” in 2020) and performing, fronting the salvage series Sunnyside Up and performing in 59 episodes of The Bold and the Elegant.
And whereas her day job is senior at UCLA, she moonlights in Hollywood, recently shedding her single “IMMA CATCH” and touchdown on Model's 2023 Young Hollywood Affect Chronicle. Next up, following her June graduation, “I'm splendid so infected to focal point on my occupation and my craft,” she told E! News in Could well well furthermore impartial 2024. “Now I can lag off and reside my life and experiment and check out unique things and confidently relate more and act more and utter more and splendid compose in regular.”
Brooke Hyland
Trading in neighborhood numbers for neighborhood journeys, the eldest of the insist's OGs recently led an tour to Costa Rica, sharing on Instagram in July that “7 days took us from strangers to site visitors crying in the airport having to declare goodbye to every diversified.”
Next up, she'll oversee a six-day jaunt via Croatia inspired by the European backpacking time out she enjoyed after graduating from Ohio College. “I explored splendid locations and cultures, whereas making lifelong site visitors in the technique,” she shared. “It turned into as soon as the time out of a lifetime.”
When stateside, the Pittsburgh resident makes the most of her marketing degree, both with her Bite-Sized Foodie Instagram myth and the Hyland Sisters label she shares with little sib Paige.
Paige Hyland
The four-season vet has few tears to place for her pillow as of leisurely. Since earning her degree from West Virginia College in Could well well furthermore impartial 2023 (“IM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! Congratulations,” Christi Lukasiak commented on her graduation 'gram), the model and influencer has criss-crossed the country with stops in the Hamptons, Colorado and Wyoming.
Her No. 1 commute buddy (diversified than older sis Brooke): Her longtime boyfriend, worn school soccer player Jayvon Thrift. “Admire you in every more or much less draw,” she wrote of the fitness model in a 2022 publish.
Kendall Vertes
In the intervening time, the James Madison College junior is gathered gathering trophies as segment of the Virginia school's championship-winning dance crew. “Youthful me shall be so proud,” the political science main wrote in a September Instagram. (Naturally, her dance mother Jill Vertes chimed in, “I know I’m so pleased with my little kendall.”)
Moreover to to attempting her hand at performing (in conjunction with the 2019 movie Rapunzel: A Princess Frozen in Time and a reside-action version of Anastasia) and singing (as Kendall K, she launched loads of albums), the season two arrival has nabbed more than about a sponsorships, thanks to her 11 million Instagram followers.
JoJo Siwa
No topic performing in precisely two seasons of the OG series (after a stint on Abby's Closing Dance Opponents) JoJo with a Bow Bow arguably stole the spotlight, occurring to nab a gigantic YouTube following, an full of life licensing address Nickelodeon, never-ending branded merchandise and a predicament on Time's 100 most influential folk of 2020.
“Undoubtedly one of the largest things that I ever realized from Dance Moms turned into as soon as either to sink or swim,” she as soon as explained to Kelly Ripa. “Not, devour, physically, in fact in a swimming pool. But to undoubtedly splendid be ready to outlive and to desire it.”
In the intervening time, as she mates round with the likes of Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian, she's doing more than treading water. In 2021, the LGBTQ+ icon partnered with Jenna Johnson to compete as the first connected-sex couple on the U.S. version of Dancing With the Stars.
Now she's eyeing a excellent bigger stage, telling Raven-Symoné and main other Miranda Pearman-Maday, “My dream, dream, dream, dream is the Attention-grabbing Bowl, to realize the halftime performance.” And as soon as she's scored that gig, she told the duo on an August episode of The Finest Podcast Ever, “Then I'll retire and have infants.”
Kalani Hilliker
Relieve house in Arizona, the dancer, actress and entrepreneur is fully embracing what she calls “my smartly being and wellness expertise” with the 2023 open of her beauty line Kare.
“I war with dismay,” she explained to E! News of her inspiration. “And I in actuality wished to create a label that turned into as soon as inclusive to each person so as to splendid relax and steal time for yourself and have a stable self-care routine to encourage you catch via your day.”
And, sure, the season 4 arrival, who also got her begin on Abby's Closing Dance Opponents, is gathered nailing every closing arabesque, having dipped her perfectly arched foot attend into dancing and instructing. “I clearly have a in actuality diversified instructing draw than Abby does in direction of me. Or, in actuality, most of my dance teachers,” she shared. “I devour to be very form, however also you've got to push them to be the handiest they may per chance furthermore furthermore be.”
Asia Monet Ray
Have in suggestions Asia officially raised. Though the California native stepped faraway from TV cameras splendid forward of her 10th birthday—following one season every on Abby's Closing Dance Opponents, Dance Moms and her have standalone series Raising Asia—”I undoubtedly had a large ride on it,” Asia insisted to E! News in 2021, acknowledging that wasn't necessarily the case for loads of of her costars. “There turned into as soon as nothing that I’d change on my ride in anyway.”
Wrapping up her excessive school occupation closing June as a valedictorian, “I’m extraordinarily pleased with myself for achieving a non-public plan,” the model and artist wrote on Instagram, “and I can’t wait to survey what’s subsequent.”
Because of a plethora of label deals and invitations to every it match, her future appears to be like intellectual. As for her truth superstar past, “I in actuality did catch pleasure from the time I had obtainable and rising up on television,” she told E!. “Despite the fact that it appears to be like devour plenty, it turned into as soon as something that in fact self-discipline me up for life that I’d never steal without a consideration.”
Camryn Bridges
Since becoming a member of the crew in season 7, the St. Louis native has been residing on some mighty bigger dance floors.
Between touring with Kendrick Lamar and performing in Usher’s Las Vegas residency, she took to the Grammys stage with Missy Elliott. “Beyond blessed!!!” she wrote of the February 2023 ride.
And she plans to retain hiking her have inner most pyramid. As she attach it in a December 2022 Instagram marking the quit of her 76-insist stint with Lamar, “I know right here’s handiest the begin.”
Brynn Rumfallo
When she exited stage left after a 3-season stint that saw her looking out to devour Maddie's ballet shoes, the Phoenix native “wished to return to highschool and I wished to splendid be regular and have my site visitors,” she explained in a 2023 YouTube video with handiest friend Kelsey Millar. “Excessive school sucked, however I’m joyful that I did it. And now that I’ve experienced both lives, I know what I desire. Which, there may be one draw to steadiness both of them in the heart.”
For the 2021 grad, that's meant launching her and Millar's Out of Line podcast and documenting her journeys to Coachella and Stagecoach for her three million Instagram followers. Plus, experiencing more than about a encounters with followers when she takes her dance students to competitions.
“It's in actuality adorable,” Brynn, who remains terminate to Kenzie, said of one present locate. “They're devour, 'Omit Brynn, you're infamous?'”
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