It's been astir 3 years since "Dancing with the Stars" pro Lindsay Arnold announced her exit, and she hasn't regretted it 1 bit.
In a caller interview, the nonrecreational dancer who starred successful the dance contention series for 10 seasons, opened up astir her determination to permission the amusement astatine the tallness of uncovering mega fame and success.
"A batch of my priorities and wherever I wanted to walk my clip ... it conscionable shifted," she told People magazine. "My mindset shifted. Time goes 10 times faster erstwhile you person kids, and I conscionable cognize that this clip is truthful precious and thing that you don't get back."
Lindsay Arnold said her "mindset shifted" earlier her "DWTS" exit. (Maarten de Boer/ABC via Getty Images)
"I did privation to person a consciousness of accomplishment wrong the amusement knowing that, ‘OK, if we bash person kids and I don't travel back, bash I consciousness similar I fulfilled what I anticipation to do?’ I did consciousness similar I was astatine that point. We honestly were astir apt past the constituent of being ready. We were like, ‘OK, we truly privation this now,’ and I'm gladsome we waited for that clip due to the fact that it felt truthful close for us."
Arnold, who shares 2 daughters, Sage, 4, and June, astir 2, with hubby Samuel Cusick, said the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles ne'er appealed to her.
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"To beryllium honest, I really never, ever loved oregon embraced Hollywood successful a consciousness of wherever I'd privation to live," she said. "Loved everything astir what it offered to me, what it did for my career, what I was capable to bash retired there, but I was really ever the pro that, successful betwixt seasons, [who] would sneak backmost to Utah to beryllium with my family. This has ever been wherever I cognize I privation to rise my family."
Lindsay Arnold, seen astatine the "Dancing with the Stars" 30th play premiere, was connected the amusement for 10 years. (Eric McCandless/ABC)
"Growing up successful Utah, the metropolis beingness was ne'er for me," she added. "But similar I said, I cognize that my beingness would not beryllium wherever it is without that time, and truthful I americium truthful grateful."
These days, Arnold continues to summation traction connected societal media, from her workout tutorials to her manner vlogs.
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"When I decided to measurement distant from ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I didn't person this expansive program of, ‘OK, this is my career. This is wherever we're going.’ I conscionable knew I wanted to bash things that were authentic to me, but that tin beryllium truly scary due to the fact that you conscionable don't cognize however that volition beryllium received," she said of becoming an influencer.
"At the time, I had a societal media pursuing for radical who lone watched maine and followed maine due to the fact that of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was scary, due to the fact that I'm like, are they conscionable going to hatred maine if I'm like, ‘Sorry, guys, I'm not doing it anymore. I'm going to beryllium a mom’? Maybe radical hatred moms. But it's been truthful chill due to the fact that each measurement of the way, by conscionable genuinely being myself, sharing what I'm doing, it's people evolved my vocation and my engagement, my assemblage successful the astir cleanable way."
Lindsay Arnold and Jordan Fisher were play 25's Mirrorrball Trophy winners. (JB Lacroix/WireImage)
While Arnold said she inactive misses the show, she doesn't regret her determination to leave.
"There are truthful galore things I miss astir the show," she said. "I miss each my friends connected the show. The community, the family, it is real. The 2nd my sister hops onto the show, they're treating her similar a small sister due to the fact that it's family."
"What I don't miss is it is simply a full-on clip commitment. If you privation to beryllium bully astatine your job, if you privation to bash well, it's a 24/7 job," she continued. "And erstwhile you're a mom, that's a 24/7 job, truthful that conflict is truly difficult."
"It's felt similar a precise earthy progression for me, which I'm grateful for because, of course, determination was ever those moments erstwhile I did take to measurement distant that archetypal play of like, ‘Am I going to regret this?’" she said. "I'm truly grateful to accidental that I haven't. I haven't regretted my decisions 1 measurement of the way," she added.