JoJo Siwa came out as a member of the LGBTQ community over the weekend.
The 17-year-old child star and former artist ‘Dance Moms’ acted candidly with her fans during an Instagram Live video on Saturday where she confirmed the news that she had hinted at a few days earlier.
“Personally, I’ve never been so happy before, and it feels really great. I’m already a little bit happy now. It’s just so, so, so awesome,” Siwa told her followers. “You probably haven’t seen me so happy since I was on tour.”
She explained that she did not identify directly, but that she no longer had to put labels on herself. Siwa remarked to her followers that at the moment she is not quite sure where she stands with labels, and that she did not want to apply while she was still figuring things out.
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JoJo Siwa came out as a member of the LGBTQ community.
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“I think people are great, I think people are really amazing people. At the moment I’m very happy and I want to share everything with the world, but I also want to keep things in my life private until they are ready to be public. “At the moment, it’s important for you to know that it does not matter who you love, that it’s OK. It’s great and the world is there for you,” she says in the video. “There are so many people out there for you. I know that everyone’s situation is different and that it can be more difficult for some people and that it can be easier for some people to get out or to be themselves, but I think “That’s the stigma of getting out. That’s this really, really, really scary thing, but it’s not anymore. There are so many people who accept and love people there that it’s OK.”
She further noted that she is aware that there will be people who will criticize her decision to come out. However, she explains that she hopes to send a message to people to appreciate their own happiness about what other people think.
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“Of course people are going to say that it’s not normal, but nothing is normal. Literally not one thing of anyone is normal and it’s OK not to be normal, it’s OK to be a little different, it “It’s OK to be a little weird, weird, different. It’s something we should never be afraid of. It’s something we should be proud of.”
Siwa further explained that she always knew that she could be comfortable in a romantic relationship with a man or a woman. Because she had never fallen in love, until now she did not feel the need to put up a label. She also touched on how her family reacts to the news, noting that her mother seems to know even before she does.
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“My parents know it. My mother said she’s been famous for the past two years. She wants ‘I just know with you!’ About two years ago, she was like, “I don’t think you just like boys, that’s all right.” “They’ve always been like that … My family is wonderful,” she said.
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The fame on social media made heads turn last week when she shared a TikTok video of her lip-syncing with Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”. She followed it up with a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt she said she received from her cousin that read, “Dear. Gay. Cousin. Ever.”