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She also released a New York Times best-selling memoir, 2017’s The Maddie Diaries, judged a new crop of talent on So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation and teamed with younger sister Kenzie Ziegler for their Take 20 With Maddie and Kenzie podcast. “I think we wanted to let our guards down and show something that wasn’t so heavily produced,” Maddie explained to E! News, “and, rather, just us having a pretty casual conversation.”
Most recently, she returned to her roots, dancing alongside Addison Rae at her 2026 Coachella set.
Though, for her next act, she’s eyeing her own beauty empire. “I would love to do my own line one day,” she said. “I think that would be so amazing and something that I’ve dreamt of doing forever.”
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Kenzie Ziegler
And with all due respect to the more than 14 million Dance Moms fans who follow her on Instagram, she dug a little deeper for her third album, biting my tongue, which dropped in July 2024, and the April 2026 EP notes from the in between.
“I feel like this is just the first time where I can talk about things that have happened with my life and share some important things to me,” the She Dances actress told E! News in 2021. “I just want people to take away something from it—whether that be happy, whether that be sad or that they can relate to it.”
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Chloe Lukasiak
“I missed dance, and I wanted to find a way to get back to something I had loved so much,” the Girl on Pointe: Chloe’s Guide to Taking on the World author explained of launching Elevé National Dance Competition with mom Christi Lukasiak and fellow mother-daughter duo Diane and Brittany Pent. “But I wanted to help create something that was the exact opposite of what I had experienced. Something positive. I challenged myself to develop something to reignite my love of dance.”
Though the competition took a bow after one year, the Pepperdine University grad is still making moves. Focusing primarily on content creation, the newly minted New York City resident has also been writing her “first fiction fantasy book,” she told E! News in 2023 and putting some thought into her next chapter. “What I’ve learned the past couple of years is that everything works out exactly as it’s supposed to do.”
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Nia Sioux
And while wrapping up her day job as a UCLA student (she graduated with a degree in American Literature and Culture in June 2024), she was moonlighting in Hollywood, dropping her single “IMMA CATCH” and landing on Variety’s 2023 Young Hollywood Impact Report.
Next up, was (death) dropping her memoir.
“Storytelling is so powerful, and that’s something I’m really, really passionate about,” she explained to E! News ahead of the November 2025 release of Bottom of the Pyramid. And while she still has a long list of career goals, acting will definitely be a part of her next chapter.
“My first love was always dance, but, in addition to that, theater,” explained Nia, who enjoyed a May 2026 run in theatrical dance experience 11 to Midnight. “So, at some point I want to get back into it.”
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Brooke Hyland
Next up, was a six-day jaunt through Croatia inspired by the European backpacking trip she enjoyed after graduating from Ohio University. “I explored beautiful places and cultures, while making lifelong friends in the process,” she shared. “It was the trip of a lifetime.”
When stateside, the Pittsburgh resident—who married account manager Brian Thalman in February 2026—makes the most of her marketing degree, both with her Bite-Sized Foodie Instagram account and the Hyland Sisters brand she shares with little sib Paige.
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Paige Hyland
Paige’s No. 1 travel buddy (other than older sis Brooke): Her longtime boyfriend, former college football player Jayvon Thrift. “Adore you in every kind of way,” she wrote of the fitness model in a 2022 post.
The pair marked five years together in July 2024 by signing their first apartment lease, Paige writing on Instagram, “new adventure coming soon.”
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Kendall Vertes
In addition to trying her hand at acting (including the 2019 movie Rapunzel: A Princess Frozen in Time and a live-action version of Anastasia) and singing (as Kendall K, she released several albums), the season two arrival has nabbed more than a few sponsorships, thanks to her 11 million Instagram followers.
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JoJo Siwa
“One of the biggest things that I ever learned from Dance Moms was either to sink or swim,” she once explained to Kelly Ripa. “Not, like, physically, actually in a swimming pool. But to really just be able to survive and to want it.”
These days, as she pals around with the likes of Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian, she’s doing more than treading water. In 2021, the LGBTQ+ icon partnered with Jenna Johnson to compete as the first same-sex couple on the U.S. version of Dancing With the Stars.
Now she’s eyeing an even bigger stage, telling Raven-Symoné and wife Miranda Pearman-Maday, “My dream, dream, dream, dream is the Super Bowl, to do the halftime performance.
And once the singer—who dropped her debut EP Guilty Pleasure in July 2024—scores that gig, she told the duo on an August 2023 episode of The Best Podcast Ever, “Then I’ll retire and have babies.” Her potential parenting partner: Boyfriend of more than a year, Chris Hughes.
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Kalani Hilliker
“I struggle with anxiety,” she explained to E! News of her inspiration. “And I really wanted to create a brand that was inclusive to everyone to be able to just relax and take time for yourself and have a solid self-care routine to help you get through your day.”
And, yes, the season 4 arrival, who also got her start on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, is still nailing every last arabesque, having dipped her perfectly arched foot back into dancing and teaching by launching her Khaos Dance Studio in 2026.
“I obviously have a very different teaching way than Abby does towards me. Or, honestly, most of my dance teachers,” shared the dancer, who tied the knot with Nathan Goldman in September 2025. “I like to be very kind, but also you’ve got to push them to be the best they can be.”
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Asia Monet Ray
Wrapping up her high school career in June 2023 as a valedictorian, “I’m extremely proud of myself for achieving a personal goal,” the model and artist wrote on Instagram, “and I can’t wait to see what’s next.”
Thanks to a plethora of brand deals, invites to every it event, appearances on Grey’s Anatomy and American Crime Story and an eponymous album, her future seems bright.
As for her reality star past, “I really did enjoy the time I had out there and growing up on television,” she told E!. “Even though it seems like a lot, it was something that really set me up for life that I would never take for granted.”
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Camryn Bridges
Between touring with Kendrick Lamar and performing in Usher’s Las Vegas residency and Super Bowl halftime show, she took to the Grammys stage with Missy Elliott. “Beyond blessed!!!” she wrote of the February 2023 experience.
And after gigs dancing in the 30th anniversary celebration of The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, alongside Chloe Bailey at the BET Awards and Tate McRae at the 2025 VMAs, she plans to keep climbing her own personal pyramid. As she put it in a December 2022 Instagram marking the end of her 76-show stint with Lamar, “I know this is only the beginning.”
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Brynn Rumfallo
For the 2021 grad, that’s meant launching her and Millar’s Out of Line podcast and documenting her trips to Coachella and Stagecoach for her three million Instagram followers. Plus, experiencing more than a few run-ins with fans when she takes her dance students to competitions.
“It’s really cute,” Brynn, who remains close to Kenzie, said of one encounter. “They’re like, ‘Miss Brynn, you’re famous?'”
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