Lindsay Arnold opens up about life after quitting Hollywood

Lindsay Arnold, best known for participating in Dancing With The Stars, sat down for an interview with People where she opened up about her life post fame.

She had been on the show for around ten years before she announced that she was leaving in 2022.

Discussing the reasons behind her retirement, she admitted that her family was one of the major reasons, namely the birth of her first child in 2020.

“A lot of my priorities and where I wanted to spend my time… it just shifted. My mindset shifted. Time goes 10 times faster when you have kids, and I just know that this time is so precious and something that you don’t get back,” the dancer elaborated.

Even though discussions of leaving had begun a few years into her marriage, Arnold wanted to leave on a more satisfying note.

“I did want to have a sense of accomplishment within the show knowing that, ‘Okay, if we do have kids and I don’t come back, do I feel like I fulfilled what I hope to do?’ I did feel like I was at that point. We honestly were probably past the point of being ready. We were like, ‘Okay, we really want this now,’ and I’m glad we waited for that time because it felt so right for us,” she added.

Admitting that life in the big city had never quite suited her, she explained, “To be honest, I actually never, ever loved or embraced Hollywood in a sense of where I’d want to live. Loved everything about what it offered to me, what it did for my career, what I was able to do out there, but I was actually always the pro that, in between seasons, [who] would sneak back to Utah to be with my family. This has always been where I know I want to raise my family.”

Lindsay Arnold concluded, “Growing up in Utah, the city life was never for me. But like I said, I know that my life would not be where it is without that time, and so I am so grateful.”