Making a change! Lindsay Arnold introduced that she is exiting Dancing With the Stars amid her plans to increase her household.
“I wanted to let you all know that I have decided not to be a part of Dancing With the Stars this season,” the 38-year-old dancer wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, August 31. “This has been one of the hardest decisions to make but ultimately, I have chosen what I feel is best for myself and my family.”
The So You Think You Can Dance alum defined that after greater than 10 years with the present she nonetheless loves it “with all of my heart,” however her family members have to come back first. Arnold shares 22-month-old daughter Sage with husband Sam Cusick.
“As many of you know my family and I live in [Utah] and in order to do DWTS I have to move myself and my daughter Sage out to LA and leave behind my husband Sam who works full time here in Utah,” she continued. “Logistically there is SO much involved with making this happen and there is a lot of sacrifice that has to be made that unfortunately just did not feel right for us this time around.”
The Dancing With the Stars: Junior mentor insisted that she and Cusick “exhausted every option we could think of to make it work” however in the end they selected this path. “At the end of the day none of the options felt good in my heart or felt like the right thing for our lives right now,” she added.
Arnold additional defined that she is “trying to grow” her household, saying, “that in itself is a complicated logistical thing as I’m sure many of you understand.”
The TV character identified that regardless of leaving the present, her time with the ABC sequence — which is transferring to Disney+ this fall — has meant “the world” to her.
“None of this has anything to do with my love for the show as that will NEVER change and it also doesn’t mean that this is the end for me and DWTS,” she wrote. “Although this decision has been so hard to make I feel so much peace about it and know that it is the right thing to do.”
The Utah native added that she “can’t wait” to observe season 31 and “see all of my friends dance.” She confessed that she plans to be the “biggest fangirl” as she continues to maintain her followers up to date on her motherhood journey and extra.
“Thank you all for your continued love and support for me and my family it means so much!” Arnold concluded.
The ballroom dancer married Cusick in 2015, two years after she first appeared on Dancing With the Stars. Arnold took a hiatus from the sequence throughout season 29, which is when she welcomed Sage. She returned to the ballroom for season 30 and competed with The Bachelor’s Matt James.
Arnold’s announcement got here simply minutes after new mother Sharna Burgess introduced that she wouldn’t be a professional for the upcoming season. The Australia native, 37 — who welcomed her first little one, son Zane, with Brian Austin Green in June — has since determined to not compete on DWTS this season. She did, nonetheless, tease that she could be again “in some capacity.”
Season 31 of Dancing With the Stars premieres on Disney+ Monday, September 19.
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