This is an IHeart podcast.

Miss Spelling with Tori Spelling, an IHeart Radio podcast.

Hey guys, welcome to Miss Spelling.

I'm Elaria Baldwin, and I'm filling in for my friend

Tori this week. So I'm so excited to be here with you guys and I can't wait to answer all of

these questions. So we'll start with some Dancing with the Stars questions. Okay, what made you

want to join Dancing with the Stars? Dancing with the Stars was a really fast, last-minute, wild whirlwind of universe coming together.

I mean, I loved to dance.

I danced when I was much younger and I broke my hip, so I stopped dancing.

I couldn't walk for the better part of a year.

And I was new to TikTok. I am new to TikTok. And I was, trying to figure out like what TikTok is about. Only people dance. So I started dancing on TikTok and I'm dancing with my husband and people start writing in to dancing with the stars. And then all a sudden, Dancing with the Stars called me. And they're like, do you want to jump on a plane in a couple of days and come here? And I was like, looked over my husband and I looked up my kids. I was like, okay. And then we went on this like wild fun adventure. So it was a really, a really exciting universe coming together experience. Right. Did your whole family move out to L.A. for the time you were on? Yes, Alec was back and forth because he, I mean, again, this was not something that we had planned. Some people, I think, they know that they're going to do this like a year before. I mean, mine was like days before. So it was a, you know, we pivoted. We took the kids out of their normal school and we put them in homeschool when they were out there. So it was just a lot of pivoting and rallying and sort of being like,

all right, mommy's going on this adventure. So let's go with them, with her. And were the kids excited for you? So excited. They loved when it was show day. They loved when it was show day. And they'd come and they'd think about what they're wearing and where they're sitting sitting and then the little ones would come in just for my performance because they were a little bit

too small to like watch how the tension span for the whole thing but yeah they were so cute sitting

in the audience did you have any hesitations about joining after your your hip issues yeah i mean

i think that it's not just the hip.

I broke my foot a year ago.

I've broken my ankle a few years ago.

And it's not, you know, I don't have weak bones.

I just have, I'm just insane and I do crazy physical things.

Like I broke my ankle almost getting hit by a car.

Like there's like, it's a story to each one of them.

But I, you know, I mean, I think it was more, am I being crazy? And, you know, I'm a mom. And I have seven kids. And I believe very much in routine. And so I feel like it was more that. But I, my kids and my husband, even, you know, not my very younger kids, but my older kids, were able to articulate, Mommy, you always support us with everything that we're doing. And so we want to be there to cheer you on. And I've been, you know, said to my daughter, I was scared. When I go out there, my oldest, I said, what if I get eliminated in the first week? And I'd made this big deal And we all flew out there. And she said, Mommy, at least you tried.

...