Although Nia Sioux clearly had what it takes to hold her own on Dance Moms, some less-than-friendly folks labeled her as the "weak link" in the group. But what they didn't know is that Sioux had a real disadvantage that her fellow dancers on the show didn't have to contend with.
"The summer before the show came, I was diagnosed with RND [Reflex neurovascular dystrophy], which is a pain management disorder," she revealed in an interview with YSBnow. "I was in the hospital the whole summer, so I wasn't dancing, I couldn't walk." That had to be a seriously difficult experience, complete with epic FOMO.
If you can't walk, you can't dance and if you can't dance, you can't train for a television show, which Sioux knows all too well. "So, while everyone was improving, getting better during that pivotal summer, I was in the hospital not even able to walk," she continued. Fortunately she was able to improve by the time the cameras started rolling in 2011.
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