In 2008, Hobbs landed the leading role in the movie "Confessions of a Go-Go Girl" as Jane McCoy, a recent college graduate, who decides to scrap her plans for law school to pursue an acting career full-time, against her parents' wishes. In 2009, Hobbs was cast in the role of Emily Kmetko, an aspiring Olympic gymnast from the wrong side of the tracks, in ABC Family's "Make It or Break It". Hobbs was absent from the final 3 episodes of season 2 of "Make It or Break", as she and her husband were expecting their second child. In October 2011 she announced that she would not be returning for season 3.