Alix Earle's latest confession makes her experience competing on Dancing With the Stars even more impressive. After Earle, 25, revealed on social media that her mom is battling cancer, one fan speculated that she found out in the middle of filming last fall. "This is what she was struggling with during DWTS..😭," one user wrote via TikTok on Sunday, January 11. Earle saw the post and replied, "We found out abt halfway through the season and she still showed up every week 💗.