Though she’s never danced professionally, Holly grew up dancing with Vicki Sheer in the Bronx and at Williams College’s dance company Kusika. She believes that enrolling her only daughter, Nia, to Abby Lee Miller’s classes would also inspire her to pursue her passion in the craft.

Dance Moms is a docu-series that follows the life of Abby Lee Miller and her students, along with their mothers. They train at the Pittsburgh-based Abby Lee Dance Company, where they learn all they can to get them on the road to stardom.