Haters aside, there are a lot of people rallying around Siwa right now.

“I’ve never gotten this much support from the world,” she said.

“I think this is the first time that I’ve felt so personally happy.”

JoJo Siwa smiling

“I am so proud to be me,” she said.

“Now that the world gets to see this side of my life…

It makes me really, really happy,” she said.

JoJo Siwa posing

Siwa also gushed toPeopleabout her girlfriend, Kylie Prew, who she met on a cruise ship.

“She never cares what the internet said about us,” she said of her girlfriend.

“It’s nice to have somebody in my life like that.”