Singer, dancer, and former reality star Kenzie Ziegler joins the Lautners to discuss navigating success and pressure from an incredibly young age. She shares the toll that reality TV took on her childhood and how it caused her to lose her passion for dance. Kenzie explains how she couldn't differentiate between reality and what was manufactured for the show, and shares the advice she would offer a production team tackling a reality show centered around children. She attributes her mental health struggles to the show, and shares with your hosts when she first discovered she was suffering from anxiety. She opens up about her relationship with social media, which she has navigated since the age of eight, and how she has grown to become more private, allowing less of the negativity to affect her. She also talks about her song Anatomy, her family's reaction to the deeply personal song, who she played it for first, and how cathartic the recording process was. The Lautners had such a great time with Kenzie, and look forward to signing those adoption papers! You can adopt a 19yearold, right?!

00:00 Intro
03:20 Welcome Kenzie
05:10 Citrus Got Real
10:40 Growing up on reality tv
12:09 Losing her love of dance
13:55 Inability to differentiate between what was actually reality and what was manufactured for the show
15:29 Advice she would give if hired as a consultant for a reality show involving kids (remember that children are children)
19:00 Discovering her anxiety
21:30 Relationship with sister Maddie Ziegler
22:30 Navigating a large social media following from a young age
26:53 Her song Anatomy and relationship with her father
29:57 Her family’s reaction to the deeply personal song
31:40 Dating history and how therapeutic the writing room was to her
34:38 Lemon 11
43:06 Outro

Follow Kenzie and check out the music video for Anatomy below!
https://www.instagram.com/kenzie/?hl=en
   • kenzie  anatomy (Official Music Video)  

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Dance Moms footage used in intro, credit to Lifetime:    • Mackenzie FIGHTS to Be Her OWN PERSON...  

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