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Ziegler, Maddie. The Maddie Diaries. Gallery Books, 2017.

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Maddie was born on September 30th 2002

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Maddie's sister Mackenzie was born. Maddie was a year and a half old.

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Maddie started dancing when she was 2 years old.  She danced for the Laurel Ballet.
"I started dancing when I was two years old at Laurel Ballet in Greensburg, Pennsylvania."

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Her first recital was The Nutcracker. she loved being on stage so much she came off stage crying that it was over

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she broke her arm at age three, she was supposed to start horse riding but because of the broken arm she couldn't. she thinks this is one of the big reason she continued to dance.

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She started dancing at the Abby Lee Dance Company at age four.
"When I was four, I started taking dance at the Abby Lee Dance Company. I knew what I wanted to sign up for: Hip-Hop, jazz, and tap."

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She started competing at age five her first solos were a ballet solo and a tap solo.

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She got moved from the recreational classes to the company classes at age 5.

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When she was eight years old they started filming for their reality TV show Dance Moms
https://youtu.be/K_JZdOKNEG0

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Dance Moms Season 1 Meet The Dancers Throwback!

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When she was eight years old she had her first lyrical solo called "cry".
"When I was eight, I had my first lyrical solo in a competition: "cry". It was actually suppose to be called "Somewhere over the Rainbow", but at the last minute we had to change it for some copyright reason."

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In July of 2011 the first episode of Dance Moms aired. They then began getting noticed everywhere they were now reality TV stars.

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Their first appearance was at a mall in Westchester, New York. There were thousands of fans waiting to meet them.
"I remember one of our first appearances in a mall in Westchester, New York. It was me, Mackenzie, Chloe Lukasiak, and our moms, and we expected maybe a few dozen fans to show up."

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Australian singer Sia reached out to her over twitter and asked her to be in her music videos.
"Sia Furler, this huge popstar from Australia. reached out to me--me!--and asked if I wanted to be in her next video. It literally said, "Hey Maddie, you want to be in my next video? Melissa my people are trying to get in touch..."

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Sia flew out to LA two weeks later to start rehearsing the dance for the music video. They planed of rehearsing for 4 days but she learned the dance in just a few hours.
"They had planned on rehearsing for four days, but I had learned the dance in just a few hours. Then Sia came into the rehearsal space to watch."
https://youtu.be/oTSUP_MMXoY

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Maddie Ziegler rehearsing for the Chandelier Music Video

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Sia's music video for Chandelier was released in 2014, billions of people viewed the video and it is the 17th most watched video. "Rolling Stone" named it the top video of 2014
https://youtu.be/2vjPBrBU-TM

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Her first TV role was a small part in a lifetime show called "Drop Dead Diva", she played a young dancer named Deb.
" The first thing I did was a small role on the lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva"-- I was just nine at the time, and I got to play young Deb. My character was a dancer practicing for nationals, getting really frustrated because she cant get the moves right."

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When she was 11 years old she released her clothing brand. She released three seasons of clothes.

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The directors of "So You Think You Can Dance: the new generation" reached out to her and asked her to be a judge in 2016.
"When they first approached me I was in shock-- I thought they wanted me for a guest judge spot, a onetime thing. " You want me to be on the show the whole time?" I gasped. " Thats insane."

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In 2016 Maddie was voted "choice dancer" at the Teens Choice Awards and got to take home a surfboard.
"I was voted choice dancer in 2016, which meant that I got to take home the surfboard (which is so cool, and kinda heavy, BTW)."

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Maddie won the award for DailyMail.com's Seriously Popular Award at the peoples choice awards 2016
"I was in this category DailyMail.com's seriously popular award, nominated with Kylie Jenner, Ruby Rose, Cara Delevingne, and Bella Thorn. And I won. That is just insane.”
https://youtu.be/4VUA0hl5xfI

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Maddie Ziegler @ People's Choice Awards 2016

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The first movie that she stared in was "The Book of Henry". The movie was released on June 14th 2017.
https://youtu.be/T_GFqp30KyI

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THE BOOK OF HENRY   Official Trailer HD   In Theaters June 16