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  • >> [APPLAUSE]. >> At just three years old, our next guest

  • is a gymnastics prodigy who already has over 50,000 followers on Instagram.

  • From El Paso, Texas, please welcome Emma and her mom, Annie.

  • So, hi, Emma, you're three years old, right?

  • >> Yep.

  • >> And, when did you start doing gymnastics?

  • >> When I was two and a half.

  • >> When you were two and a half?

  • So really, just six months ago, you started.

  • Anyway.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> How did she get started so early?

  • >> She was incredibly clumsy and I was hoping that gymnastics would help with it.

  • They said that she has a talent for it and they started moving her up and

  • we've been going strong for a while now.

  • >> Have you or your husband done gymnastics done gymnastics?

  • >> No.

  • >> No one in the family?

  • >> No.

  • >> Look at those muscles, you're very, very strong, aren't you?

  • Very strong, and so who's your favorite gymnastic person?

  • >> Who's your favorite gymnast?

  • >> Gabby Douglas, and she won a gold medal at the Olympics.

  • >> If I would've said gymnast, you would've known what I was saying,

  • instead of gymnastic person.

  • I messed it up.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Gabby is amazing,

  • she's been on the show before, she's really incredible, isn't she?

  • Why do you like her so much?

  • >> Cuz, I like her leotard and she won a gold medal at the Olympics.

  • >> She did win a gold medal.

  • Yeah, that's really impressive.

  • What is your favorite thing to do in gymnastics?

  • >> Bars and my backbends and my back handsprings.

  • >> Back handsprings?

  • Wow. >> Yeah.

  • >> Do you get scared of falling ever, Emma?

  • >> No, cuz I will get back up.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> That is a wonderful thing to say.

  • You just get back up when you fall, of course you do.

  • So, I understand your daddy is, where is your daddy?

  • >> In Korea.

  • >> He's in Korea, he's in the Army, is that right?

  • >> Yes.

  • >> How long is he there?

  • >> He's gonna be there for a year.

  • >> A year? >> Yes.

  • >> Do they get to talk and see each other, FaceTime?

  • >> Yeah, she gets to FaceTime him now.

  • The first week or so we didn't, but now we get to talk to him all the time.

  • >> Uh-huh.

  • He did something really sweet when he left.

  • What did he leave you?

  • >> A daddy kiss jar.

  • >> A daddy kiss jar and so there's a kiss for every single day that, so

  • it's a kiss from your daddy every single day?

  • >> Mm-hm.

  • >> That's really sweet.

  • Do you sometimes steal more kisses than one?

  • >> No.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Not since she got caught.

  • [LAUGH] >> I see.

  • I see.

  • >> She thought if she would steal them,

  • that the days would go by a little bit faster until he's back.

  • So she would just sneak them.

  • But she got caught and she won't do it again.

  • [LAUGH] >> Aw, that is really sweet.

  • Okay, there's so many things over here.

  • You're gonna perform for us, right Emma?

  • >> Right.

  • >> Here we go, let's go.

  • >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> Wow.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> Let's go this way.

  • >> Wow.

  • That's certainly not clumsy, is it?

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Can you try your press handstand?

  • Can you go all the way up?

  • Okay.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> Wow!

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> Do you want to show your kick over?

  • Can you show your kick over?

  • Okay, sit down.

  • Okay.

  • >> [APPLAUSE].

  • >> Wow!

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> Do you wanna show your favorite skill?

  • [INAUDIBLE] Let's do your favorite.

  • Okay.

  • Can you do your special split?

  • Okay.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> Can you do your?

  • >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> [LAUGH]

  • >> Wow.

  • >> [LAUGH]

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> You wanna

  • show your backhand spring now?

  • Can you go all the way over there?

  • How many you gonna show?

  • >> Three.

  • >> Okay. >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> Yay!

  • >> I'm so proud of you!

  • >> Let's go down here cuz I have a little surprise for you.

  • >> Okay.

  • >> Let's come down here.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> First of all,

  • that was so good, that was so, I can't believe how good you are.

  • Okay, so you have your kiss jar from your daddy everyday, right?

  • Okay, if you want more than that, I got you something.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> Ellen hugs.

  • >> [APPLAUSE] >> That's a lot of kisses.

  • >> It's kisses.

  • And then with your daddy's kisses, you get an Ellen hug every single day.

  • >> Aw, can you tell her thank you and give her a hug?

  • >> Thank you.

  • >> Your welcome.

>> [APPLAUSE]. >> At just three years old, our next guest

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