At the tender age of eight Maddie Ziegler burst onto our radar via the hit Lifetime reality TV show, Dance Moms. Another five years would pass before the now 21-year-old would venture out from her dancing days to land a breakout role in The Fallout and become a mainstay at the hottest fashion and A-list events — Miu Miu's Paris Fashion Week show included. Ziegler has also joined the ever-expanding pool of cover stars with a Cosmopolitan cover and an exclusive Teen Vogue feature in this year's "New Hollywood 2024" edition. "I'm not always going to be that little girl," she spoke of her evolution. "I'm also changing and growing. It's scary when people are like, 'But you're not who you were when you were younger.' And I have to explain, 'Yeah, because that's just not realistic."
As fans become gripped by Dance Moms: The Reunion 2024 (airing now) they will be disappointed to learn that Ziegler (and her mother Melissa Gison) won't appear alongside the cast. Why? She's busy cementing her status as a major force in fashion with14 million followers on Instagram. If you're not familiar with the cult of Dance Moms, it centered around dance instructor Abby Lee Miller and her young cast of dancers and the intensity they faced by Miller and their momagers to fulfill their dreams of dance stardom. Ziegler's former peers appearing in the reunion are dancers Brooke and Paige Hyland, Chloe Lukasiak, and Jojo Siwa.
