Hands down. I think she’s great as an actress. She would have been phenomenal on broadway. She should still try for it

so do you guys agree that it was Melissa that smuggled the money and Abby was the fall guy bc i think that’s what happened so they went to Australia and came back with a bunch of Australia money i think the signs came a few episodes later when Abby dumped out her purse and MelIssa came and tried to put it back and hide it so everything was normal for until Season 6 and the beginning of season 6 was when Abby started getting into legal trouble with the law I think it was bc it was tax season and Abby had to pay all that money back and she claimed she didn’t have the money even though she did that’s when Melissa started acting weird and her and Abby relationship started to go downhill and Melissa tried to play it cool so Melissa announced in S6 E15 she only had 4 weeks left and it seemed like everyone knew bc rumors were already circulating that she was leaving and said her girls had a lot going on i don’t think Maddie and Mackenzie were all that busy with stuff in 2016 the reason why Melissa left was bc things were getting bad for Abby and She knew Abby would tell on Melissa and Melissa would probably go to jail so her leaving was a way to get out of trouble i think that is why Abby treated Melissa girls differently bc Abby i think figured Melissa was going to try and get out of it I think Melissa was a huge liar we all know she was what your thoughts about this do you guys agree with me or no

Some people are so awkward seeing the girls doing mature things because we watched them grow up on tv, like every other child star. I get it they're adults now and they grow up like every regular kid. Just like Drew Barrymore for example, she was a child star and became a sex symbol in her 20s during the 90s and Miley Cyrus during her Bangerz era. When Fitting In came out people were shocked seeing Maddie having a sex scene, Jojo's Snapchat pics and Kenzie being a cigarette smoker. The thing about being a child entertainer is that now matter how old you'll get people will still see you as the kid they watch on television.

So nice

I’m on season 6 right now right after Abby’s been charged by the government. Particularly the episode where she gets a call during the competition and leaves.

Sorry but Jill getting so mad about it is so annoying 😭 Babes. Abby is facing years in prison and obviously got an extremely bad call about the case, i’d say that takes priority over Kendall’s solo. Honestly in general how mad the moms get over Abby’s whole situation is so annoying, i cannot deal with them getting annoyed at her leaving completions or just being a wreck in general. Obviously it’s annoying she’s not tapped in but she has bigger fish to fry 😭😭

I’m rewatching dance moms and one thing that made the show almost impossible to watch on season 5 was how unfair the moms were to Ashlee.

And I know sometimes Ashlee would also say stuff to trigger them (specially Jill) but one thing is true: Jess and Jill were ALWAYS personal on their insults. Jill was ridiculous screaming in front of Brynn saying that she had no brain in her head just because she was mad that Abby made Brynn learn Kendall’s solo. She should be mad at Abby, but instead she’d blame it on Brynn all the time.

And what shocks me the most is that Holly didn’t say a single thing. She’s usually really honest to stick up for what she thinks is right and when she thinks the moms are in the wrong she expresses it. But in season 5 every time Jill, Jess or Melissa would start talking about Brynn and make fun of her she would just sit there and make faces as if they had the right to do it just because everyone hated Ashlee.

And even tho Jill insisted in saying that Ashlee talked about her kid, EVERY TIME Ashlee opened her mouth to talk about Kendall in a choreography she was being technical and it only happened like 2 or 3 times max. Jill kept talking bad about a child and every time Ashlee tried to defend her the moms would start throwing a tantrum and calling her a horrible person. Kira literally made fun of the way jojo talked, Melissa was always being sneaky to get her daughters ahead, Jill would constantly talk about Kendall being too good to dance with Nia or Jojo. But they acted like they were victims while Ashlee was a mean girl. (Not to mention Kendall’s mean girl allegations and Mackenzie saying there was a bully among the girls and one time she had to stick up for her friend because it was getting insufferable)

I seriously can not get it into my head because Jill was literally bullying a child to the point Brynn would start crying on rehearsals saying “they” were going to make fun of her. Mackenzie CRIED when Jill was being unfair to Brynn and even she said “what adult talks to a child like that? She can’t do this” and instead of acting like a grown woman and sticking up to her kid and her friend, Melissa just took Kenzie out of the room and started scolding her for defending Brynn.

I feel so bad for the two of them because Jill and Jess were making her every day hell and Mackenzie’s mom wouldn’t take her kids side because of a stupid rivalry that Abby created.

When Brynn’s trio (w/ Mackenzie and Kalani) won against Kendall’s trio (Maddie and Jojo) the moms started telling everyone that the results were rigged, and they did it to the kid’s face. Later they tried to deny it and make it seem like Ashlee and Brynn were making it up but there’s a scene were Kenzie and Maddie are in the car with Melissa and Kenzie said she was sad about the moms lying saying the competition was fixed, Melissa literally told her kid to shut up and said they shouldn’t talk about it and that it didn’t happen. Like WTF is wrong with her her daughters trio WON a competition and she can’t even be happy for her ?? I won’t even mention the episode where that boys mom lied saying Brynn didn’t want to dance, Kalani and Nia confirmed Brynn was telling the truth and the moms still chose to believe a woman who barely spoke English.

This made me sick to my stomach and can’t get pass it watching season 6. Holly’s definitely better than this and I wish she wasn’t so silent about Brynns mistreatment because usually she was the mom to advocate when people were being unfair to children.

Idk if I’d call these “rares” cause you can easily find these but I think these are lesser known pictures.

Abby was always so frustratingly hypocritical when dancers forgot their routines on the show. She would yell at and humiliate the girls when they forgot their routines and froze on stage (like she did to Paige, Chloe, and Mackenzie), but if the child improvised when they forgot, she would berate them and act as though they were choreographing their own routine. The only time I can think of off the top of my head when a child was celebrated for improvising when they forgot was Kalani.

I think everyone understands that the purpose of competing is to perform the choreography that you’re given, but when you’re learning multiple numbers in less than a week, it’s understandable that literal children might forget a few steps. I’d understand Abby’s frustration more if this was a situation where the children had been learning those dances for weeks or even months, but they were often learning their routines in just a few days and usually recycling combos from other numbers.

It just seemed incredibly unfair. I don’t think anyone would have ever thought the children were choreographing their own thing knowing Abby would crucify them for doing so afterwards.

I have a memory of her saying she improved part of her solo but can’t remember which one it was

Like yes, by definition, Brooke was typecasted as an acro dancer when she was capable of a lot more. Nia was typecasted and stereotyped as a Black dancer. She was never given pretty lyrical or pretty acro like Brooke. She was given solos with really bad jazz/blues/soulful music, her solos always revolved around being emancipated or some form of working class style, or was given solos were she had to wear an Afro. She was a stereotyped as a dancer bc she was Black while being typecasted. Those are not the same thing