Maddie Ziegler Recalled The First Time Sia Reached Out To Her When She Was 11 Years Old And Opened Up About What It Was Like Being Her “Muse” As A Child. “She was like, 'Will you be in my next two videos and be my muse and do everything with me? ' And I was like, 'Yeah!

As a teenager Maddie Ziegler had been a huge fan of Sia. After Sia approved her fan requests , Maddie got the opportunity to appear in the music video of the hit " Chandelier". With the time, they became so close not only in the professional life, but also in the personal life.

She gained wide notice, at the age of 11, by starring in the 2014 video for "Chandelier" by Sia, which won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video. Sia discovered Ziegler on Dance Moms. The video also received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter.

11-year-old Now 47, Sia would've been around 39 in 2014, which is when she first recruited then-11-year-old Maddie for her “Chandelier” music video. Maddie has previously acknowledged the huge age gap between herself and Sia, telling ABC News in 2017 that it's “weird to think” about how much younger she is.

As an example of her protective actions, Sia recalled, "I kept her off a plane that Harvey Weinstein tried to get her on." "When he invited her, I told [Maddie's mom] Melissa, I just said, 'Please don't, do not do that, do not do that, do not do that.

The show may have been called Dance Moms, but we all know Maddie was the star, landing so many solos that it got under everyone's skin. Dance Moms put Maddie on the map, and she allegedly earned $2,000 per episode and $400,000 for six seasons.

As a teenager Maddie Ziegler had been a huge fan of Sia. After Sia approved her fan requests , Maddie got the opportunity to appear in the music video of the hit " Chandelier". With the time, they became so close not only in the professional life, but also in the personal life.

Since the age of two, Maddie Ziegler has had a passion for performance. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Maddie's mother Melissa enrolled her and her younger sister, Mackenzie Ziegler, in dance classes at a local studio. A few years later the trio starred in the hit Lifetime reality series 'Dance Moms'.

Keddie (Kendall and Ma/ddie) is the friendship pairing between Kendall Vertes and Maddie Ziegler. They have been friends since Kendall joined the Abby Lee Dance Company. When Chloe left, Kendall and Maddie became stronger friends.

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The song's lyrics and video are meant to evoke Sia's relationship with her father, meaning that Ziegler is intended to represent the singer, while LaBeouf is the father figure.

Maddie got her big break at eight years old when she joined the cast of the reality TV show "Dance Moms.” And well, the rest is pretty much history. It didn't take long for her dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller, to notice her potential, which is why she quickly became her star pupil.