Dance Moms is the show that either made us glad we were never pushed to attend ballet lessons past the age of five or salty we didn’t stick with it.
There’s no doubt about it: the sheer intensity of the US junior competitive dance scene uncovered in Dance Moms made for an addictive watch.
Were we sometimes jealous of the talents of children a fraction of our age? Absolutely. But did we want to be subjected to the wrath of terrifying dance coach Abby Lee Miller if our pirouettes were slightly off? Hell no.
Take a walk down memory lane and watch the trailer for Dance Moms Season One here. Story continues after video.
Since the program first premiered in 2011, some of the show's young dancers have been catapulted into the spotlight, while others have kicked off their dancing shoes to take on a different path.
And now with Dance Moms: The Reunion set to air on May 1 in the US (sorry, there's no Australian date as of yet), the girls are all grown up and opening up about their experience on the show.
From JoJo Siwa defending Abby's controversial teaching methods to Chloé Luasiak admitting that she "should probably go to therapy", here's what the kids from Dance Moms are doing now, and what they've said about the show since appearing on it.
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I’ll be interested to see how long Jojo Siwa keeps up with this persona. Will she have a Disney child star type rebellion in a couple of years, a la Miley, or will she keep it up and become a one-woman Wiggles troupe?
Maddie has already done movies so it won’t be her film debut. She was in Book of Henry and did a voiceover in Ballerina.