Maddie Ziegler is finally speaking her truth about her peculiar upbringing. The dancer-turned-actress is Cosmopolitan‘s cover star for their Issue 4: The Fame Issue.
She spoke with the outlet about living in the public eye from a young age, and what she’s learned since leaving reality TV. The moment Ziegler realized she was famous came quite early for the star. “I was 8 and we were in an ice cream store, me and the girls from ‘Dance Moms’, and people were calling our names.
We were weirded out, like, ‘How do they know our names?’” she recalled. “Then I noticed it gradually — everywhere we went, at any dance competition — swarms of people.
It didn’t make me excited. In a way, I was kind of embarrassed.” Ziegler was on six seasons of the reality show “Dance Moms” from 2011-2016.
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