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Self - Model uncredited. Related Videos. Official Sites: Instagram. Children: None. Parents: Kershaw, Kerry Kershaw, Kim. While she enjoyed other activities, including Girl Scouts, ski club, clarinet lessons and charm school, Miller's primary passion was dance, especially competitions. Not a fan of performing herself, she opted for teaching early on.
She founded the Abby Lee Dance Company while still a teenager. In she opened her own dance studio. In a twist of fate, Miller went from the sidelines to center stage herself when Lifetime offered her a reality-television show, Dance Moms. Debuting on July 13, , Dance Moms followed a group of young wannabe dancers at Miller's dance studio and their stage moms.
It became a pop-culture sensation, its third-season premiere drawing 2. Season 8 of the hit show began airing on June 4, The Lifetime show was such a success that the network gave Miller another series, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, which debuted October 9, The show aired for two seasons. A follow-up series, Abby's Studio Rescue , showcased the no-nonsense dance coach helping other studio owners with their struggling businesses. The show failed to generate much of an audience and disappeared after seven episodes aired in Another spinoff, Abby's Virtual Dance-Off , was set in motion in with dancers submitting videotaped performances for Miller to render her judgment remotely.
However, the show was canceled by Lifetime in June after the parents of two African American contestants from Dance Moms revealed Miller's history of bigoted behavior.
Miller refuses to see herself as a villain, even though that reputation was one of the reasons behind the popularity of Dance Moms. She told In Touch magazine in a interview that while her methods may seem harsh, there's a rationale behind them. There was no music and art [in my home]; my family was more about how to put food on the table and survive.
So when I got asked to model, it was a ticket, and I got swept up. I just ended up in the cog. I was doing really well. I just happened to be gifted at modeling. From the minute someone put a camera on me, it was like I knew what to do. I think over time, as the years progressed I was just finding that there are a lot of things about the modeling industry that were not fitting with my constitution as a person.
My creative soul and my creative spirit and my brain were just being squashed and dulled down and numbed. There's only so much you can do as a model. I was just finding myself so frustrated and starved to utilize the creative spirit that I knew that I had in me. I started dating somebody who was a musician.
I went on tour with him around the U. I was like, "Oh, my God, that's what I want to do. So I went and bought an instrument from a little shop in a small town, and I started playing tambourine. Then I got an art studio, and I was painting a lot. I was painting and writing songs. I always felt like something was missing.
I just kept asking whatever version of God it is that I believe in, to just, like, bring me the real thing. I landed on that set, and I was like, "Shit, this is the Mecca of all the arts. This is, like, expression, sound, movement, performance. I felt like I had two jobs. I had one job of really informing myself about the topics that we're talking about.
I'm like, "I need to know the facts about what's going on in society, what was happening then, and what's still happening now. There was a lot of work that I did there to really dig deep into what was happening societally, and the racial injustices that are still happening today. So that was one job, to make sure that I was very aware of what I was working on and who I was working with. But I had to remove that from playing Christina. Because my job as an actor, in the sense of getting into a character, is to tap into and express the humanity of that character without judgment.
So you have to just look for, what is that person's need and how do they get what they want? Show the truest form of the truest representation of a character like this. She happens to be a white supremacist. She happens to be an oppressor. She happens to be an unoppressed woman. But I have to remove it from how I feel about the things that are going on, because it's purely my job to make her as real as possible.
Because the understanding of each other, I believe, is the biggest thing that promotes change: if we can understand each other. Bazaar Bride. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Goodbye to All That. Related Stories. Lee in Stephane Cardinale - Corbis Getty Images. Lee at the premiere of Mad Max: Fury Road in
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