{"id":281416,"date":"2019-10-09T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1081468"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:01:57","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-peta-murgatroyd-becomes-a-u-s-citizen-i-dont-take-this-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/dancing-with-the-stars-peta-murgatroyd-becomes-a-u-s-citizen-i-dont-take-this-lightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With the Stars’ Peta Murgatroyd Becomes a U.S. Citizen: ”I Don’t Take This Lightly”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Zealand-born and Australian Dancing With the Stars <\/em>professional dancer, Peta Murgatroyd<\/a><\/strong>, just reached a new milestone in her life. <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old dancer shared on Instagram<\/a> that “yesterday was an emotional day” for her. <\/p>\n

“After countless US Visas starting from 2006 and the last years with a Green Card, I am officially a United States Citizen,” she wrote. <\/p>\n

“I’m getting misty-eyed writing this because I haven’t reflected on my life up until this point. I went deep down memory lane and I cried at the ceremony and then really cried in private,” she wrote in her post, accompanied by a series of photos from her naturalization ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Memories surfaced that I had forgotten about, wishes that I had made as a child in my backyard with a full moon and promises that I made to myself and my family. Everything came full circle and here I was sitting in an auditorium with 1000 people, with my Ukranian\/American husband and my American son…a girl from little Perth with a big dream of being ‘someone.’ I dreamt of performing on the worlds biggest stage, I dreamt of people knowing my name, I dreamt of being the best at my craft, I dreamt of making a difference and most of all I dreamt of making my family proud and proving that I could do it at the highest level.”<\/p>\n

Murgatroyd was born in Auckland, New Zealand but moved to Australia when she was less than two-years-old. In Australia, she was raised in Perth and began her dancing career at 4-years-old. <\/p>\n

The dancer has also performed in the international tour of dance production Burn the Floor<\/em>, including its Broadway run. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Murgatroyd added that she loves the life that she’s created but that it wouldn’t have been possible without the “United States giving me the chance to succeed.” <\/p>\n

This country, she wrote, helped her make her wildest dreams come true and “its where I found the love of my life, and it’s where my first child was born. This will always be home now.”<\/p>\n

The two-time winner of DWTS<\/em> is mother to two-year-old Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy<\/strong>, who she shares with husband and choreographer Maksim Chmerkovskiy<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Murgatroyd also shared that she’ll always be proud of being an immigrant.<\/p>\n

“I looked around at the auditorium full of immigrants….their eyes were longingly filled with hope, faith and belief. I am an immigrant too. I will always be one, and I’m proud of it.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“Thank you USA for accepting me, I will continue to work and treat this country with the upmost respect,” she wrote<\/a>. “I will honor the flag and The Pledge of Allegiance. I don’t take this lightly. God Bless America.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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