JoJo Siwa Shares Her "Gay Awakening" Story connected TikTok

JoJo Siwa is reflecting connected a idiosyncratic milestone.

The YouTube star, 19, reposted the photograph that she shared 2 years agone erstwhile she archetypal told the satellite she's a arrogant subordinate of the LGBTQ+ community.

"2 years agone today," she wrote connected Instagram Jan. 21 alongside a rainbow of bosom emojis and the pic, which showed her wearing the "Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever." T-shirt that she'd received from her cousin. "Now looking backmost connected everything…. I'm SO arrogant of 17 twelvemonth aged JoJo."

JoJo came retired successful January 2021.

"Now that the satellite gets to spot this broadside of my life, it makes maine really, truly happy," she said successful a message to her fans astatine the time. "I've been blessed successful this onshore for a infinitesimal now. And present though that I conscionable get to stock that with the world, it's awesome. And I'm conscionable truthful happy, and it's conscionable truthful amazing. And I privation radical to cognize that determination is truthful overmuch emotion successful the world."

In 2021, JoJo competed connected Dancing With the Stars and became the archetypal pistillate personage to creation with a pistillate pro, Jenna Johnson. The duo won 2nd spot connected play 30. 

"For the archetypal clip in Dancing With the Stars history, I americium dancing with different female, and I'm really, truly proud," JoJo said astatine the time, per People. "I came retired successful aboriginal 2021 and what I emotion to bash is marque genuinely being who you are easier for kids." 

And she hopes she can proceed to beryllium an inspiration for others to unrecorded arsenic their existent selves.

"Truthfully I consciousness similar I was enactment connected this world to beryllium a relation exemplary for kids, and letting each the kids of the satellite cognize that loving everyone for who they are nary substance what is thing that I volition ever judge successful and ever share," the "D.R.E.A.M." vocalist wrote successful portion of a station celebrating her coming retired day past year. "Please ne'er hide that nary substance who you are, what you look like, who you LOVE that you are perfectly perfect."