Julianne Hough is not idolizing her previous relationships.

The Dancing With the Stars host lately mirrored on courting Ryan Seacrest from 2010 to 2013, explaining that a part of the explanation for his or her breakup was as a result of Julianne wished to create a profession for herself exterior of the connection.

“I remember when I decided to break things off,” she advised Dax Shepard on his podcast Armchair Expert Aug. 12, “I had a lot of these Brentwood moms and producers in that world that were like, ‘What are you doing?’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ They’re like, ‘Your life is completely set up.’”

But because the 36-year-old defined, she did not really feel like she’d constructed that life.

“Of course, I was like, ‘I need to create this,’” she continued. “Competitively, it’s not mine. I need to feel the pride of doing it.’”

And Julianne was additionally afraid these wanting in on the connection would assume she was utilizing the American Idol host for her personal acquire.

“I had this insecurity,” she stated, “that I was like, ‘I don’t ever want anybody to think that I’m with him for this reason.’ And so I then started playing smaller.”