Back in 2017, teenage Siwa spoke withShowstopper Magazineabout the direction her career was taking.
“It has been amazing!
Accompanying her mom to the studio as a toddler, JoJo’s curiosity about dancing developed organically.
“I started dancing when I was 2 years old!”
Siwa told Showstopper Magazine.
“That’s actually when I did my first solo too!
It was to ‘Mama I’m a Big Girl Now’ and I was still wearing a diaper!”
As she grew older, JoJo’s dance skills grew even stronger.
Siwa proved to be such a standout that she joined “Dance Moms” in its fifth season.
It truly is so tough.”
“I never really had experienced hate in school with girls and boys.
“I don’t want anyone to have to go through that.”
The “Boomerang” music video became a smash hit, to put it mildly.
As of April 2024, it sits at 1 billion views.
Among the Siwa-branded items she was selling were what else?
hair bows, which, like her own, were large and garishly colored.
Siwa has seen incredible success with her hair bows.
As she toldForbes, she sold more than 80 million of them by 2020.
However, Siwa’s hair bows also encountered resistance.
“Fortunately my daughter thought they looked ridiculous so was never drawn into that particularly hideous fad.”
That wasn’t the only problem that Siwa encountered with her products, though.
(A bathing suit doesn’t count),” and “Have you ever been arrested?”
She hit the road for her D.R.E.A.M.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter, the 25-city tour dubbed Nickelodeon’s JoJo Siwa D.R.E.A.M.
The Tour was scheduled to kick off in May 2019.
Demand for tickets was staggering.
The tour had grown so much that ticket retailer StubHub declared D.R.E.A.M.
The t-shirt she wore bore the words, “Best.
Her tweet was immediately praised by Ellen DeGeneres, Lil Nas X, and Perez Hilton.
“I still don’t know what I am.
Plus, she pointed out, there were certainly clues that could have easily been picked up on.
“When will the message of empowerment, self-confidence, positivity, and self-love get old?”
Sterling told Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s a learning experience that I’m more than ready for.”
“Nobody likes to lose.
Nobody does,” Siwa told reporters after the finale, as reported byHollywood Life.
Over time, four group members left, including Leigha Sanderson.
Her mother, Anjie, told Rolling Stone her daughter was fired after expressing concerns.
She also alleged that JoJo and her mother were consistently abusive toward the girls.
Siwa was hit with backlash, perhaps not unpredictably, but she took it all in stride.
“The internet has gotten very mad at me,” Siwa toldBillboard.
