Dancing QueenTaking Over the Dance Floor! JoJo Siwa’s Quotes About Joining ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 30

Making the Choice

“When I read the email, it was like, ‘Would JoJo prefer to dance with a girl or with a boy?’ And I was like, ‘Wait, that’s an option? Let’s absolutely do it!'” JoJo told Entertainment Tonight in August 2021. “It was a like, ‘Whoa, I’m changing the future [moment],’ because I have such a kid demographic. It’s making it acceptable, and I love that and I’m so proud of that.”

Being a Dancer

“I’m not gonna hide that I’m a dancer. I was a dancer my whole life. Am I very out of practice? Absolutely. I perform all the time, but it’s different, you know? I don’t have to strengthen my legs, and ballroom is different. I’ve never taken ballroom,” she also explained to ET.  “It’s gonna help me in a way, but it also is a disadvantage. Because I guarantee you the judges are one hundred million percent gonna judge me harder than they do everybody else.”

Getting Real

“Everything’s going to be different,” the singer told TMZ in August 2021, noting that it’s “absolutely” going to be a benefit to have a female partner.

Making History

“I think it’s really special that not only now do I get to share with the world you get to love who you want to love, but also you get to dance with who you want to dance with,” she said while appearing on Good Morning America in August 2021. “I want to make it right for the people who come after me.”

Creating Change

“I’m really proud that I get to be the first [to dance with a same-sex partner]. I think it’s really cool,” she told Access in September 2021. “It’s time, you know. I think season 30 is a big season already and now let’s make it even bigger. It feels right for me to dance with another female, personally, but I also think that for the future of everybody who comes after me, to make it normal is so special.”

Finding Support

“Ky is literally the most supportive with this show,” JoJo told Access of her girlfriend. “Every single thing that I talk about, mention with the show, Ky is right there so supportive. Just literally like my number one cheerleader, always gives me the hype up, and then always give me the cuddles.”

Ready to Win

“I obviously want to win. It’s in my blood,” JoJo told Entertainment Tonight in September 2021. “I love to win but already doing what I did with this show and with this experience and dancing with another female and being the first, I’ve already won in a way and of course not the mirrorball yet — hopefully, manifesting — but everything that’s happened so far and the reaction we’ve already received from the world is just amazing.”

No Nerves

“I miss out on the fun if I’m always nervous,” JoJo said during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “The styles that I’m trained in for dancing are very different than everything ballroom but it’s so fun. My partner is a female. I’m the first-ever same-sex couple on Dancing With the Stars. We’re both so comfortable with the idea. She’s incredible, so talented. I can’t wait!”

Her 1st Dance

After taking the DWTS stage for the first time in September 2021, JoJo received the highest score of the night.

“It was so cool! I didn’t know when it happened!” she told Entertainment Tonight. “When [host] Tyra [Banks] said it was the highest score of the night, I lost it.”

Getting Personal

“Everyone always says dance is an escape,” JoJo shared during a chat with reporters in October 2021 per Us Weekly, noting “this week, I really learned that.”

“This week was very, very extreme and something that I had never gone through and something that I’ve never felt before,” the singer added, referring to villains week on the show. I’m really lucky that every day this week, I got to spend three hours with my best friend in rehearsals. At the end of rehearsal, she would go, ‘OK, we got there. You OK? Cool.’ … It definitely has been a week, but because of my family, because of this song, because of the show, I’m on the other side of it.”

Being Happy

“This show, for me, has put me in a really happy place and makes me feel like myself,” JoJo told Entertainment Tonight in October 2021. “I think that is something I am really, really appreciative of. It’s so real, and it is what it is.”

A Total Transformation

My mind has changed more than my body has, for sure,” JoJo told reporters in November 2021, per Us Weekly. “I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned a lot about being happy. I’ve learned a lot about — just yesterday and the day before — not second-guessing myself and being on eggshells. … I learned a lot about my mind. It’s growing and it’s changing. And I think the biggest way that it has is I’ve become more open-minded about myself. I’ve always been open-minded about others, but I think I’ve been closed-minded with myself. And I think it’s cool that I’m finally a little open-minded.”

Growing Up on Screen

“People my whole life [have] been waiting for me to have my, like, ‘child star breakout go-crazy moment.’ … A lot of times, they go crazy to phase out of that time [and] that phase of life,” JoJo told reporters, per Us Weekly. “But for me, I feel like this is my transition. And I feel like it’s such a good, wholesome, right way of transitioning out of being a child star. And it feels so good to grow every single day and learn new things about myself every single day.”

Coming to an End

“There were days when the only thing that I wanted to do was go to rehearsals, dance with Jenna and take my mind off everything,” JoJo told Entertainment Tonight in November 2021. “That is something that, going through a breakup and a heartbreak, I was so grateful that I had. Dancing With the Stars was my little happiness outlet over the last 10 weeks, so I’m really grateful for that.”