JoJo Siwa says she thinks Dance Moms to a certain degree was "detrimental" to her career. In the latest episode of her podcast, JoJo Siwa Now , the 20-year-old "Karma" singer opened up about the recently aired Dance Moms: The Reunion special on Lifetime and made the revelation that while she is forever grateful for the original show, there are parts she struggles with to this day. "Today we are kind of going back to, not necessarily how it started for me and how I became a public human being, but something that I think really was detrimental to my career and was massive for me, which was Dance Moms ," she says at the top of the episode.
She continues, "We had the Dance Moms reunion just happen and the Dance Moms reunion, you know, it was a mixed bag of bones for me, for sure." While Siwa does not extrapolate further on why exactly she considers the show -- which put her on the map and launched her into the public eye -- to have been "detrimental" to her career, she does go on in the episode to explain her reason for leaving in the middle of season 6. The singer -- who was recently spoofed by Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman -- shares that as they were filming the hit reality TV series, she was presented with another opportunity, which she doesn't name but purportedly is her contract with Nickelodeon.
She tells her listeners it came down to wanting that job more than finishing out the season with Abby Lee Miller and the other girls. Siwa adds in the episode that a.
