Julianne Hough is opening up about her three older sisters selecting totally different paths in life from her and brother Derek Hough.
Julianne, 37, and Derek, 40, have three older siblings — Sharee, 48, Marabeth, 44, and Katherine, 43 — who had been additionally entertainers, however their lives took them on “totally different paths,” in line with the Dancing With the Stars cohost.
“My three older sisters, all of them danced and sang and acted. We had been in, like, a band. We had been simply all the time in it,” Julianne mentioned on the Tuesday, September 9, episode of the “Not Skinny However Not Fats” podcast. “My grandparents met dancing, my dad and mom met dancing. It’s within the blood.”
Whereas Julianne and Derek discovered fame on Dancing With the Stars and different initiatives, their sisters discovered totally different callings. (Julianne and Derek had been each skilled dancers on the present earlier than Julianne transitioned to cohost and Derek grew to become a choose.)
“My oldest sister, she began within the Mormon approach, so she bought married at 19 and had six youngsters,” Julianne mentioned. “My second sister moved to Nashville to be a rustic star. My third sister needed to be an actress.”
Requested whether or not there was ever any jealousy over her and Derek’s Hollywood success, Julianne admitted, “We’ve had this dialog many occasions. There’s no jealousy, however there’s, like, a disappointment that possibly there wasn’t a chance for them to expertise it.”
“They’re so completely satisfied. So, so, so completely satisfied. And look, they’ve nice lives and so they love their life. … We had a chance that they didn’t have and it’s onerous,” she defined.
Julianne mentioned she and Derek weren’t all the time open about their profession achievements with their siblings, which brought about them to develop “additional and additional aside.”
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“Derek and I had been all the time so shut as a result of we had shared experiences. Whereas [with our sisters], we by no means needed to share as a result of we had been afraid to harm somebody’s emotions,” she defined.
This led to the older Hough siblings not feeling “included,” Julianne mentioned, including, “So, over the previous few years, it’s been very very like, alright, if it hurts, it hurts, however not less than we’re shut and we’re shifting by means of it vs. avoiding.”
Julianne mentioned her older sisters are settled down with households and youngsters of their very own, one thing she admits she would really like for herself. (Julianne finalized her divorce from former hockey participant Brooks Laich in 2022. The pair separated after three years of marriage in 2020.)
“It’s all relative,” she mentioned. “They’ve marriages and youngsters. I take a look at my third sister, as an example, and he or she has three stunning daughters and he or she plans all these actions. I’m in awe of her. I’m like, ‘You’re such an excellent, current mother.’ I love that a lot. I’m like, ‘I need that,’ and he or she’s like, ‘I need that.’ It’s not that one factor is healthier than the opposite, however all of us have this stuff we want.”
