JoJo Got Famous at 13. Now, She Feels Young Stardom Is 'Like Injecting Heroin into the System of a Child' (Exclusive)

Young fame was a blessing and a curse forJoanna “JoJo” Levesque. In her new memoir,Over the Influence, out now, the singer and author, 33, recalls skyrocketing to fame at age 13 with the chart-topping hit single “Leave (Get Out)” and the many ups and downs that followed throughout her 20-year career, from record label struggles to addiction. Today, JoJo’s feelings on child stardom are complex. “It’s just too dangerous to your sense of self, because you don’t know who you are at that time,” JoJo tells PEOPLE, “and then you will be told who you are.

JoJo Says Filming 2006'sAquamarine'Brought Out Insecurities' About Her Body: ‘I Was Not as Skinny as the Other Girls’

Left: Joanna “JoJo” Levesque in 2006’sAquamarine; Right: Joanna Levesque in 2024.Photo:20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock 20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Formerchild starJoanna “JoJo” Levesqueis looking back on her cult classic movieAquamarine, which she shot when she was 14, and revealing how the film “brought out some insecurities in me.” On the Sept. 18 episode ofThe Viall Filespodcast, the singer, now 33, toldBacheloralumNick Vialland his co-host andwife,Natalie Joy, that the film “was my first big movie that I had done.

JoJo Siwa and Dakayla Wilson Split 3 Months After Taking Relationship Public: ‘We Have Gone Our Separate Ways’ (Exclusive)

Jojo Siwa (left); Dakayla Wilson.Photo:Paul Archuleta/Getty; FOX via Getty Paul Archuleta/Getty; FOX via Getty JoJo SiwaandDakayla Wilsonhave gone their “separate ways.” The formerDance Moms star, 21, revealed to PEOPLE at the 11th Annual American Reality Television Awards on Monday, Nov. 18 that she and theSo You Think You Can Dancealum are spending the holidays apart. “We have gone our separate ways, but she is an amazing girl,” Siwa shared. “And I got my own fun holiday plans, and I know she’s got her family that she’s spent the holidays with.

JoJo Siwa Appreciates 'Nods' Dance Moms Reboot Made to the OG Show but She Still Has 1 'Problem' with It

JoJo Siwacan appreciate the newDance Momsshow, but there were still moments she wasn’t entirely happy with. (L-R) JoJo Siwa; a still from ‘Dance Moms: A New Era’.Kevin Winter/Getty; Courtesy of Mary Beth Koeth/A+E Networks Kevin Winter/Getty; Courtesy of Mary Beth Koeth/A+E Networks Though she thought the kids and their moms “were cool,” Siwa — who joined the OG series in 2015 for season 5 — admitted she didn’t want to be “too shady” in her critiques of the show.

JoJo Siwa Reveals What She Thinks Makes or Breaks a Bold Look: 'Down to Try Anything' (Exclusive)

JoJo Siwais completely okay with disrupting the status quo with her outfits.“I think for me, when I’m finding a style, it’s ‘How can I be so messed up, so weird, so whack?’ That, for me, is something I have a lot of fun with,” theDance Momsalum says in a new episode of PEOPLE’sRules for Lifeseries.Making heads turn is often her goal and she always wants others to ask themselves, “Why is she wearing that, what is she doing, what is she wearing now?