It’s been almost three years since “Dancing with the starsPro Lindsay Arnold announced her departure, and she has not regretted it for a moment.
In a new interview, the professional dancer who starred in the series of dance competitions For 10 seasons, she talked about her decision to leave the show at the height of finding mega-fame and success.
“A lot of my priorities and what I wanted to spend my time on… it just shifted,” she said People magazine. “My mindset has changed. Time passes ten times faster when you have children, and I just know that this time is so precious and something you can’t get back.”
Lindsay Arnold said her “mindset changed” before leaving “DWTS.” (Maarten de Boer/ABC via Getty Images)
“I wanted to have a sense of satisfaction on the show, knowing that, ‘Okay, if we have kids and I don’t come back, do I feel like I’ve fulfilled what I hope to do?’ I felt like at that moment, we were probably past the point of being ready, honestly. We were like, ‘Okay, we really want this now,’ and I’m glad we were at that moment waited because it felt so good for us.”
Arnold, who shares two daughters, Sage, 4, and June, almost 2, with husband Samuel Cusick, said the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles never spoke to her.
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“To be honest, I’ve never really loved or embraced Hollywood in the sense of where I would want to live,” she said. “I loved everything it had to offer me, what it did for my career, what I could do outside of that, but I was kind of always the pro who would sneak back to Utah between seasons to be with him.” my family. This has always been the place I know I want to raise my family.”
Lindsay Arnold, seen on the 30th season premiere of “Dancing with the Stars,” had been on the show for 10 years. (Eric McCandless/ABC)
“Growing up in Utah, city life was never for me,” she added. “But like I said, I know without that time my life wouldn’t be where it is today, and that’s why I’m so grateful.”
These days, Arnold continues to gain traction on social media, from her workout tutorials to her lifestyle vlogs.
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“When I decided to step away from ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I didn’t have the grand plan of, ‘Okay, this is my career. This is where we’re going.’ “I just knew I wanted to do things that were authentic to me, but that can be really scary because you just don’t know how that’s going to be received,” she said of becoming an influencer.
“At the time, I had a social media following for people who only watched and followed me because of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was scary because I thought, are they just going to hate me if I say, ‘Sorry guys, I’m doing it no more?’. Maybe people hate moms But it’s been so cool because every step of the way, just really being myself and sharing what I do, has developed my career and my involvement and my community in the most perfect way.”
Lindsay Arnold and Jordan Fisher were the winners of the season 25 Mirrorrball Trophy. (JB Lacroix/WireImage)
Although Arnold said she still misses the show, she doesn’t regret her decision to leave.
“There are so many things I miss about the show,” she said. “I miss all my friends on the show. The community, the family, it’s real. As soon as my sister jumps on the show, they treat her like a little sister because it’s family.”
“What I don’t miss is that it’s a full-time commitment. If you want to be good at your job, if you want to do it well, it’s a 24/7 job,” she continued. “And when you’re a mother, that’s a 24/7 job, so that struggle is really hard.”
“It felt like a very natural progression for me, which I’m grateful for, because of course there were always times where I chose to step away that first season and thought, ‘Am I going to regret this?'” she said. “I am very grateful to be able to say that this is not the case. I have not regretted my decisions for a moment,” she added.
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