Kenzie Ziegler: No Closure, Just Getting Older

The Squeeze

Taylor Lautner

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Singer, dancer, and former reality star Kenzie Ziegler joins the Lautners to discuss navigating success and pressure from an incredibly young age. She shares the toll that reality TV took on her childhood and how it caused her to lose her passion for dance. Kenzie explains how she couldn't differentiate between reality and what was manufactured for the show, and shares the advice she would offer a production team tackling a reality show centered around children. She attributes her mental health struggles to the show, and shares with your hosts when she first discovered she was suffering from anxiety. She opens up about her relationship with social media, which she has navigated since the age of eight, and how she has grown to become more private, allowing less of the negativity to affect her. She also talks about her song Anatomy, her family's reaction to the deeply personal song, who she played it for first, and how cathartic the recording process was. The Lautners had such a great time with Kenzie, and look forward to signing those adoption papers! You can adopt a 19-year-old, right?! Follow Kenzie @kenzie Thanks to our awesome sponsors for supporting this episode: Blissy — Get better sleep now with Blissy and use THESQUEEZE to get an additional 30% off at blissy.com/THESQUEEZE ReGain Couples Therapy — Give online therapy a try at regain.com/thesqueeze and get on your way to being your best self To email us your questions or share your story, you can reach out to [email protected]. Be sure to rate, review, and follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode! Plus, follow us on Instagram, @thesqueeze and personally @taylautner and @taylorlautner + on TikTok @thesqueezepodcast To learn more from The Lemons Foundation, follow @lemonsbytay on Instagram and visit lemonsbytay.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I definitely did not have a childhood.
0:02.4	Being so young seeing my mom like fight with other moms was like really crazy.
0:06.5	I don't think I ever really like came to terms with how I felt about the whole thing
0:11.1	until I got out of it. I think I started going to therapy when I was 14 because I thought I was the only one dealing with this and I would disassociate a lot. All of the cast members like we all kind of deal with that type of anxiety and mental health things and yeah it's all from the show we loved dance so much but when you do it so much it was definitely hard. I lost my love for dance really early on.
0:37.7	When life gives you lemons, what do you do with them?
0:44.0	Over here at the Squee's
0:57.0	I'm Taylor I'm also Taylor and this is R Remy. Thank you for joining us. Yes happy Wednesday. Happy
1:06.8	Wednesday how are we all doing? Yeah maybe we like take a moment to just like
1:11.5	breathe in and out.
1:15.0	Oh, it's okay.
1:19.0	Remy did not take a moment to breathe in and out.
1:21.0	No, Ram, you need to breathe in. Slowly, hold four seconds,
1:26.1	four seconds, four seconds out. Yeah. She's not listening. Well I hope you are. Yes, I felt like that made me feel a little better.
1:35.2	We have a fun episode today. Yes, we do. Miss Kenzi herself, Kenzi Segaler. I'm very excited about this episode. She's like our adopted daughter. I feel like I love her. Yeah, she was great. I know it's going to shock all of you, but I did grow up watching Dance Moms, so I was a big fan of the show.
1:58.3	So I was pretty excited for this chat and get to finally meet Kenzee and did not disappoint. I will tell you that.
2:06.8	Yeah, it was really cool. We got to talk with her just about like being on a reality show at such a young age.
2:14.0	She started at six.
2:15.0	Like, it's just, it's crazy what she kind of like had to go through
2:20.0	at such a young age and you know, she's been in this industry for quite some time
2:25.9	But just kind of like the effects that I had on her childhood and what dance did had on our childhood
2:30.7	But she also opened up with us about her anxiety and panic attacks which was so
2:38.4	awesome that she felt so like vulnerable and opened enough to talk about that with us.
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