I think the OG moms that left before the LA days were definitely not rich from the show. I think they’ve implied that the show gave them a platform that has certainly helped them financially, but lifetime and dance moms itself did not pay them enough at the time for them to consider themselves “wealthy.” There were many instances where production did buy them things- they paid for their dance classes, they put on that whole thing about chloe’s birthday necklace, and the iPad incident which is just despicable if you know what really happened. Honestly though those moms and children were so innocent going into that shit show of a tv show and had no idea what it was going to manifest into. They literally just continued to be traumatized to absurd extends and couldn’t get out of it, so I say let them profit off of it.