Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler, 21, smoulders in a Miu Miu tube top for the cover of Teen Vogue as she talks growing up in the spotlight

Maddie Ziegler looked radiant and youthful as she graced the cover Teen fashion New Hollywood Edition.

The Dance Moms star smoldered for the camera as she rocked a mustard-colored Miu Miu strapless top with a long matching skirt.

Her short brown hair fell to her shoulders as she showed off her collarbone and natural makeup look.

Ziegler – who appeared on TV at the age of nine – spoke about growing up in the public eye.

‘It’s scary when people have such strong opinions about you and feel like they know you. But there’s something beautiful about that too,” she told the outlet.

Dance Moms premiered on Lifetime in 2011 and followed the elite youth dance team of Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It also highlights the complicated dynamic between dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, her students and their over-the-top mothers.

Ziegler appeared on the show with her younger sister Mackenzie Ziegler, now 19, and mother Melissa Gisoni.

Ziegler was portrayed as Miller’s “favorite,” with the other mothers often accusing Miller of giving the young girl special treatment – the source of most, if not all, of the on-air arguments.

Ziegler, her sister and her mother left the show in season six and she previously revealed that she no longer speaks to Miller despite the bond they shared.

She also confessed to “blocking out” that part of her childhood.

Now 21, Ziegler told Teen Vogue that she has finally found a sense of self-worth afterward navigating the world as a child star.

The brunette beauty has left dancing behind and is now a working actress.

“Acting gives me the creative freedom to jump into different things, but it also helps me protect my own being,” she explained.

Having publicly grown up in an environment where she was the norm and couldn’t be rebellious, the star is now relearning boundaries.

“I’m growing up and it’s liberating to know I can stand up for myself,” she said.

After leaving that environment, the 21-year-old still feels that youthful spark that she carries with her even now.

‘I’m still that same crazy, loving, hard-working girl, but I’m also changing and growing. It’s scary when people say, “But you’re not who you were when you were younger.” And I have to explain: ‘Yes, because that’s just not realistic.’

The reality show alum shared the spotlight with several famous faces, including Barbie’s Ariana Greenblatt and The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Christopher Briney.

The concept of this edition takes every personality and turns each into a different type of artist.

Briney, 25, poses as he turns and shapes pottery with his hands, opting for a denim jacket and shorts.

Greenblatt, 16, was photographed upcycling materials to create a new piece while dressed in an unbuttoned orange shirt and black bandeau.

Ziegler will star in My Old A**, due out in August this year, in which she plays the character Ruthie.

The film stars Maisy Stella as a small-town Canadian teen in her last month of summer before college when she and her friends go crazy.

“I feel like the characters lived inside us,” the cover girl said said“We could go home and be ourselves, but the characters were still a part of us.”