ATLANTA — Life in quarantine landed this Morris Brown grad TikTok fame.
Lia DaVila is 48 years old and a mom of eight kids. But she definitely won some cred with her kids after she went viral on the social media app for her majorette dance - which included a high kick and jump twist into a split that's still. on. point.
11Alive talked with this new social media star who was a little surprised herself.
"I'm gone be honest with you. I have a dance school, I teach dance but I'm really out of shape. Really out of shape," she admitted.
She said her son has been trying to be TikTok famous, and mom was his golden ticket to social media fame. The clip now has more than 2 million views.
DaVila took it back to her time at Morris Brown College in Atlanta when she was a member of the Bubbling Brown Sugar Dance Team class of 1994.
"Because you guys do that in the south. We didn't do that up here, so it was very impactful - stayed with me," she explained. "I love band music. I absolutely lose my mind when I hear it, so I just did it."
But it was in the moment she hit the combo that her son Josiah knew mom was feeling it.
"He had saw you perform and do these dances before. But the look on his face he was completely shocked. Do you feel like you got some cool points with the kids now?" asked 11Alive.
"I think so, he told me that," DaVila said. "He said, 'I really didn't expect for you to do the hand stand thing.' That's the thing that threw him off. Not the split - the hand stand."
Check out the video clip below!
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