‘Dance Moms’ Alum Kalani Hilliker On Abby Lee Miller_ I’d ‘Never’ Put My Student
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00:00 Self-care and wellness products have been something that I feel like I've always been using,
00:04 especially with a dance background and a really crazy background of always being busy,
00:10 always being in the spotlight. I've always loved to relax and to calm down.
00:14 I always remember after dance, I would just sit there and take like 45-minute baths
00:18 because it would be like my time to relax.
00:20 So I knew that that was definitely something I wanted to hop into.
00:23 Growing up, I've always dreamed of being a business owner.
00:26 That's something that I've really always wanted to jump into,
00:29 especially with just having such a background of being super independent with dance and whatnot.
00:34 I was very, very independent. I was the oldest on the team, you know.
00:37 So I feel like I was always in this kind of independent role.
00:43 So I always wanted to jump into this.
00:46 All right, I have given Kalani Chloe's solo. Let's hope the costume fits.
00:51 This is Kalani's big chance.
00:53 If she wins, Abby's gonna have to admit that she's ready to go head-to-head with Maddie.
00:57 I feel like we all are, for the most part, in contact here and there, you know.
01:03 Just we all live in like different places and do different things.
01:06 But anytime that we're all around or like in the same area, I feel like we try to hang out.
01:10 Yeah, JoJo, I feel like, has been one of the girls I've been closest with
01:13 because we were on AUDC before we even went on to Dance Moms.
01:18 So, I mean, I've always been talking to her and keeping in contact.
01:21 And we actually, I think we just talked like the other day, if I'm being honest.
01:25 I don't know, but anytime we do talk, it's like a two-hour phone call.
01:28 And it's like a long one, just like a deep, totally get to like, know what's been going on type of call.
01:34 She's one of the greatest people, one of my best friends.
01:36 Some advice I would give it to my younger self is that it's all gonna work out
01:40 and all of the hard work and everything that you've gone through is gonna pay off.
01:45 Maybe we should put Kalani in her place.
01:47 No, I never said that.
01:47 Yes, you most certainly did.
01:48 No, I didn't, dingbat. Listen!
01:51 I am not really in contact with her. I have no ill feelings or any issues.
01:55 I think it's just part of growing up, you know, you have different, like I said,
01:59 we all kind of have different lives than we did back in the day.
02:02 You know, I teach dance myself and, you know, I'm very grateful for everything that she's done for me.
02:07 And, you know, I wouldn't be here without some of the things she's done for me.
02:11 So I'm always appreciative. But right now I'm not really in contact with her.
02:15 I feel that my teaching style is very different from Abby just because of how she taught me.
02:21 Not saying that there wasn't some amazing things that she taught me,
02:23 but I just have a different way of how I relay corrections and things to my kids.
02:29 Just because I know what I went through and what, you know, all my friends went through
02:34 and I would never want to put, you know, my kids I teach through that.
02:37 I think that the way Abby handled things, it's just the way that she handles things, you know,
02:41 it really was herself for what I know, you know, I was a kid.
02:44 So I took everything to heart and really just whatever she said, I really thought she meant.
02:49 So I really don't know, right? You can't change the past.
02:52 So you just move forward and know how it went.
02:54 I think that I would probably do the show again.
02:56 Everything happens for a reason and, you know, I wouldn't be here
02:59 and I wouldn't have the opportunities that I have today
03:02 and I wouldn't have known the girls and all the moms and, you know,
03:05 they were really like my family when we were in that time
03:08 and they're some, they're people that are so special in my life.
03:10 So I would never want to take that back.
03:12 The possibility of reunion is definitely something I think most of us are into.
03:17 Thanks for watching. For more information on Care by Kehlani,
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