Lindsay Arnold was a well-known face on the small display screen for the higher a part of a decade as a professional dancer on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, even profitable Season 25 with singer Jordan Fisher. She stepped away from the highlight in 2023 when she introduced her exit from DWTS, and she or he hasn’t returned to the solid. As a substitute, she’s constructed a really completely different life for herself in Utah, nicely away from the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, together with her husband and two daughters. Now, she’s opened up concerning the choices that led her there as only one extra TV star to go away Hollywood like Fashionable Household alum Ariel Winter did.
The DWTS professional was born and raised in Utah, marrying her highschool sweetheart when she was simply 21 again in 2015. She labored in Los Angeles for years for DWTS, however constructing their household collectively ultimately meant relocating from LA for Arnold. Talking with Folks, she shared about what modified after the beginning of first baby:
A number of my priorities and the place I needed to spend my time… it simply shifted. My mindset shifted. Time goes 10 instances sooner when you will have children, and I simply know that this time is so treasured and one thing that you do not get again. … I did need to have a way of accomplishment throughout the present realizing that, ‘Okay, if we do have children and I do not come again, do I really feel like I fulfilled what I hope to do?’ I did really feel like I used to be at that time. We actually have been in all probability previous the purpose of being prepared. We have been like, ‘Okay, we actually need this now,’ and I am glad we waited for that point as a result of it felt so proper for us.
Lindsay Arnold achieved that “sense of accomplishment” when she and Jordan Fisher got here out on high in DWTS Season 25, though her subsequent – and probably final? – 4 seasons have been much less profitable. Nonetheless, she seemingly has no regrets about leaving that life behind for the sake of her children in Utah and switched gears to grow to be a social media content material creator. On the time of writing, she has round 2.5 million followers throughout Instagram and TikTok.
Her social media viewers hasn’t at all times been the kindest, to the purpose that she needed to tackle all of the commentary about her C-section scar whereas nonetheless on DWTS. Extra not too long ago, the dancer went on to elaborate on why leaving Los Angeles wasn’t too laborious on her, as a result of she by no means really felt at residence there. Arnold mentioned:
To be trustworthy, I really by no means, ever liked or embraced Hollywood in a way of the place I would need to reside. Beloved every thing about what it supplied to me, what it did for my profession, what I used to be in a position to do on the market, however I used to be really at all times the professional that, in between seasons, [who] would sneak again to Utah to be with my household. This has at all times been the place I do know I need to elevate my household. Rising up in Utah, the town life was by no means for me. However like I mentioned, I do know that my life wouldn’t be the place it’s with out that point, and so I’m so grateful.
She made it clear that she feels no ailing will towards the present that made her a family title amongst DWTS followers, even when working in LA by no means felt fairly like residence. Plus, she revisited the present all through Season 33 to assist youthful sister Rylee Arnold and her Olympian companion, a.okay.a. Stephen “Pommel Horse Man” Nedoroscik. Though Rylee and Nedoroscik got here in fourth and former Bachelor star Joey Graziadei was Season 33 champion, that they had the complete assist of Lindsay, together with for his or her finale performances:
Whereas ABC hasn’t introduced a premiere date for Dancing with the Stars Season 34 within the 2025 TV schedule, it is a protected wager that Lindsay Arnold can be watching reasonably than dancing. If Rylee returns as a professional dancer, absolutely she’ll have the assist of her older sister! DWTS will seemingly return in September, as new seasons have premiered in mid-to-late September yearly since 2018. As for the Season 25 professional dance champion, Lindsay Arnold appears completely happy together with her life in Utah together with her household and content material creation.