Tori Spelling has never believed she was ‘good enough’.
The Beverly Hills 90210 actress – who has Liam, 17, Stella, 16, Hattie, 12, Finn, 11 , and seven-year-old Beau with estranged husband Dean McDermott – had ‘so many fears and self-doubts and insecurities’ but decided to sign up for Dancing With the Stars because she realized the things she told herself were very different to the positive messages she sends to her kids.
She explained to People magazine: ‘I never believed I was good enough or deserved much and it’s the opposite of what I’m trying to teach my kids.
‘I tell them how much they deserve and they can do anything they want. Then I’m like, “Wait, I’m telling them this, but I’m not living it.” So this was a conscious choice to be like, “You know what? This is the point.”
‘In my life kind of everything is burned to the ground in my life, not my kids, but personally with other things. And this is the moment to kind of walk the walk. No. Talk the walk, walk the talk.’
Tori Spelling has never believed she was ‘good enough.’ She explained to People magazine: ‘I never believed I was good enough or deserved much and it’s the opposite of what I’m trying to teach my kids’; seen on DWTS With Pasha Pashkov
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Tori Spelling sends out an inspiring message to her kids as she is eliminated from DWTS
While Tori was the first voted off DWTS she insisted her passion for dance is only just ‘beginning’ and she has no plans to give it up.
She said: ‘I’ve dipped my toes into something that’s been transformational for me personally, so I’m excited to keep going.
‘Obviously, it won’t be in this ballroom weekly, but I’m not going to stop.’
The 51-year-old actress previously admitted she’d always wanted to compete on the show but had rejected offers because she hadn’t been ‘brave’ enough to take part.
She said on her ‘MisSPELLING’ podcast earlier this month: ‘Every season I [watched it], and I was like, “Good for her [or] for him. Oh, god. I wish I was brave enough to do it.”‘
But when she was approached again this year, Tori decided to give it ago despite it being ‘literally one of [her] biggest fears in life.’
She added: ‘Watch it with my kids. Watched every season. So I’m pushing through my fears. I’m a work in progress. So I said yes to something that was one of my biggest fears…
‘I have a lot of gratitude to the friends in my life and family that have said to me, We believe in you.’
‘I tell them how much they deserve and they can do anything they want. Then I’m like, “Wait, I’m telling them this, but I’m not living it”‘
‘So this was a conscious choice to be like, “You know what? This is the point.” ‘In my life kind of everything is burned to the ground in my life, not my kids, but personally with other things. And this is the moment to kind of walk the walk. No. Talk the walk, walk the talk’
While Tori was the first voted off DWTS she insisted her passion for dance is only just ‘beginning’ and she has no plans to give it up
Spelling and her pro dancer partner Pasha Pashkov performed the rumba to the song This Is Me from the acclaimed 2017 musical film The Greatest Showman.
The couple’s dance received a score of 19 out of 30 which – when combined with last week’s score of 17 – brought their grand total to 36 for both nights.
But it wasn’t enough to save them from double elimination as they, along with fraudster Anna Delvey and partner Ezra Sosa, were voted off by viewers at home.
Despite the early defeat, Spelling made it clear in rehearsal footage that aired Tuesday that she was doing it all to inspire her kids after a tough few years.