JoJo Siwa has gotten candid about the struggles she experienced growing up in the public eye
The dancer and singer, on a recent episode of ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’, delved into the impacts being a child star had on her, and how it affects her today as an adult.
Jojo, whose real name is Joelle Joanie Siwa, shared that her confidence has suffered as a result of trolls having harshly judged her and from ‘growing up in front of the internet’.
“I’m very hard on myself. I judge myself,” she began.
“It’s the hardest thing. Everything gets judged. People told me I have a receding hairline, they don’t know that I have a stress rash and that’s why I’m balding right here,” she says while pointing to her temple.
“A 12-year-old shouldn’t have a stress rash on their head that makes them bald, but I did,” she added, and labelled herself as a ‘very insecure person’.
“The reality is that it’s hard for me to go places. It’s not always fun for me to go places.”
Last year, JoJo admitted that her bald spot came as a consequence of damaging ‘every single hair follicle’ in that area of her scalp when she got a stress rash while on she appeared on the Lifetime show ‘Dance Moms‘.
“I would pick at it all day long,” she confessed in a TikTok video.
In 2020, JoJo shared that public criticism not only comes in the form of appearance-based commentary.
Speaking with Variety, she admitted that she had been labelled a ‘giant toddler’ by trolls, as well as heckled and sworn at in public.
“I went to Knott’s Scary Farm, and people were being awful. All these teenagers were, like, ‘JoJo Siwa, F**k you! Go home.’ All night long people were shouting things at me. So I just thought teenagers don’t like me. And I am one!”
The 20-year-old first made her reality TV show debut on ‘Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition’ at just nine years old.
After this, she joined ‘Dance Moms’, which would lay the foundations for her YouTube career later in life as she launched her channel on the platform in 2015 at the age of 12.
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