The Maddie Diaries by ALIME'AAD TAMRAYSA

Ziegler, Maddie. Maddie Diaries. Simon & Schuster UK, 2018.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 16:38:04 UTC

Maddie Ziegler is born, overweight and overdue, via C-Section.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 16:43:35 UTC

"I was huge when I was born—9 pounds, 10 ounces; 21.5 inches— and kind of stubborn. I refused to come out for forty-two weeks..." {2}

Maddie Ziegler develops a passion for dancing at the age of two. She attends a ballet academy.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 17:10:22 UTC

"I started dancing when I was two years old at Laurel Ballet [...]" {4}

Ziegler wins high gold in her first dance competition at the age of five. The subsequent year, she enters many competitions in succession, and wins all of them. This marks the nascency of her professional dance career.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 17:28:43 UTC

"I started competing when I was five. [...] I earned high gold [...] The next year, when I was six, I started going to different competitions and conferences. I won and I kept winning." {47}

Ziegler begins dedicating most of her time to dancing, deciding on it as a career path. She joins the Junior Elite team and begins traveling the country for dance meets. Ziegler begins to bear negative feelings about the competitions because of the stress and tension they bring.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 17:33:41 UTC

"When I joined the Junior Elite team, I thought it was going to be awesome. [...] traveling to lots of different cities [...] But as I got older, the competitions got much more intense." {49}

Dance Moms premieres on July 13, 2011. The program averages two million viewers every week. Maddie Ziegler, hardly aware of this and nine years old, quickly becomes a dancer of renown.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 18:25:26 UTC

"Dance Moms aired in July of 2011, we became reality TV personalities [...] we expected maybe a few dozen fans to show up [...] a thousand screaming fans, pushing and shoving and trying to get to us. [...] I was only about nine." {53}

Outside Source #1

Ziegler begins to get accustomed to life as a celebrity. She shares stories of fans being speechless or crying before her.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 18:49:10 UTC

"People sometimes come up to me and stare; they forget that I'm a person [...] or worse, they cry. They actually cry!"

Maddie Ziegler receives varied awards following her appearances on Dance Moms and her excellent performance at dance competitions. She won the Teen Choice award as the Choice Dancer for 2016 and the People's Choice award for being Seriously Popular.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 18:59:17 UTC

"I was voted Choice Dancer in 2016 [...] I was in this category, Daily mail.com's Seriously Popular award, nominated with Kylie Jenner, Ruby Rose, Cara Delevingne, and Bella Thorne. I won." {94}

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 18:59:39 UTC

In 2013, Australian pop singer Sia Furler asks Ziegler to star in her music video. Ziegler obliges and flies out to Los Angeles to practice and film it. Sia enjoyed Zieglers performance greatly, and they collaborated further in Sia's next two music videos.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 19:20:09 UTC

"[...] Sia Furler, this huge pop star from Australia, reached out and asked if I wanted to be in her next video. [...] when I showed her the dance, she cried [...] A few weeks later, she said 'You want to do my next two videos with me?'" {108-110}

Maddie Ziegler is invited onto many talk shows following her appearance in Sia's music videos. In 2014, she appears on Ellen.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-05 19:35:29 UTC

"With every one, I feel like I stretched myself a little more—when I performed Alive on Ellen, I had to punch my fist through a pane of glass." {114}

Ziegler's fame exceeds its previous heights. In 2016, she goes on tour with Sia, performing Chandelier, Elastic Heart, and Cheap Thrills live to thousands of people.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 02:05:42 UTC

"October 15, 2016. As I'm writing this, we have thiteen more concerts left to go on the tour." {117}

Maddie Ziegler is invited to be a judge on season thirteen of "So You Think You Can Dance", a season focused primarily on young contestants. Ziegler maintains this role until the end of the season in late 2016.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 02:16:05 UTC

In May of 2016, Maddie and her sister Mackenzie leave the show Dance Moms, seeking independent work.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 02:18:04 UTC

Following her departure from Dance Moms, Ziegler seeks other roles in acting. In 2017, she's casted as "Eiffel" in Nickelodeon show "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn", among other varied minor roles.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 02:25:42 UTC

For the 250th episode of "So You Think You Can Dance", Ziegler partners with Travis Wall to perform a dance. They choreograph the dance within four hours and perform it live for the special episode.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 02:31:26 UTC

In October of 2014, Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler debut their own fashion line, dubbed The Maddie & Mackenzie Collection. At the 2015 New York Fashion Week, Maddie acts as a correspondent for the Elle brand.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 03:43:58 UTC

Ziegler has her first song performance in front of an audience at a competition.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 03:48:02 UTC

Ziegler lands bigger roles in bigger projects. She voices a supporting character in "Ballerina" (2017) and plays a minor character in "The Book of Henry" (2017). It is around this time that public perception of Ziegler began to shift from 'dancer' to 'actor'.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 03:51:56 UTC

Ziegler's vehement fascination with dance leads to her attending her first concert as a toddler.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 03:53:12 UTC

"I begged to see them in concert [...] So she went on eBay and got me tickets (now that's a great mom!)." {4}

Ziegler begins to develop an unhealthy attitude towards competition that persists into her pre-teens. She feels like she always needs to win or prove herself better than her competitors.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 03:57:42 UTC

Maddie quickly becomes close friends with her co-stars. They often lived in the same rooms at hotels when going to meets, so a rapport was formed shortly after the show's premiere.

tamraali000 — 2024-04-06 04:00:24 UTC