It wasn't until her junior year of college that Nia Sioux realized she was ready.

Then a student at UCLA, she was in Los Angeles with her mom, Holly Frazier. She remembers looking at her and saying, "I'm ready to write it."

She was referring to her long-planned dream of writing a memoir about her time on the Lifetime reality show "Dance Moms." Nia was just 9 years old in the show's pilot. She and her mom, Holly Frazier, starred in it for seven seasons, from 2011 to 2017.

That dream was actualized with the release of "Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life," which hit shelves Nov. 4.

"I always knew I was going to write a book about my time on 'Dance Moms,'" Nia tells TODAY.com. "But it's ever really been the right time. It never r

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