discover the life and career of the TikToker

Charli Grace D’Amelio, known only as Charli D’Amelio is a dancer, actress, voice actress, businesswoman, internet personality, considered the most famous tiktoker in the world.

The girl who is currently 18 years old started posting dancing videos on TikTok in 2019. So, the following year he became the first person to obtain 100 million followers, thus becoming the most followed profile on all of TikTok. Today he already has 147 million followers on the social network.

Therefore, Charli D’Amelio became TikTok’s biggest success story. Furthermore, she used all her recognition and influence on the internet to create a true business and advertising empire. To give you an idea in 2021, she earned around R$91 million through the social video network.

Anyway, todayand let’s learn more about Charli D’Amelio’s life and her successful career on the internet.

Who is Charli D’Amelio?

Charli was born on May 1, 2004, in the city of Norwalk, in the state of Connecticut, in the United States. She is the daughter of American politician Marc D’Amelio and Heidi D’Amelio. Charli has an older sister named Dixie D’Amelio who is also an actress, influencer and dancer.

In fact, the entire D’Amelio family is enjoying success on the internet. Charli’s father, Marc, ran for the Connecticut Senate in 2018 for the Republican party. Nowadays, the family patriarch is not in politics, but takes care of the family business, and accumulates more than 10 million followers on TikTok.

In her personal life, Charli D’Amelio previously dated TikTok success Chase Hudson, known as Huddy. However, the relationship that was made official in December 2019 came to an end in April 2020.

An interesting fact about her is that it was revealed in a section of the program The D’Amelios Family, that Charli once wanted to change her first name. That’s because she was constantly mistaken for a boy, and that’s why she asked to be called Charlotte.

Charli D’Amelio’s career

Charli D’Amelio has become one of the biggest and most famous influencers in the world, and her stunning success isn’t clear to her either. “I wish I could give everyone an explanation of what happened, but I have no idea.”, she said in an interview with Mel magazine. Next, let’s check out tiktoker’s greatest achievements.

TikTok

Charli D’Amelio started posting videos just for fun dancing with her friends in 2019. Then, literally overnight, the girl began to attract the attention of several internet users and went viral on the social network, having 2 billion likes in just a few days.

At the beginning of the pandemic, when the internet became people’s main source of entertainment, Charli started to gain around 400 to 500 thousand followers per day. The young woman, who was already a dancer before, posted videos with music choreography and lots of dancing skills, which attracted thousands of fans and followers.

A year after starting to go viral on TikTok, in March 2020 Charli achieved the impressive feat of becoming the second most followed account on the social network. A feat that she managed to overcome in November of the same year, when she reached the mark of 100 million followers, and therefore, became the most followed profile on TikTok. Today, the young woman has an impressive 147 million followers on TikTok and 49 million on Instagram.

Charli’s rise was so meteoric that not even she can say why she is so successful. But one thing is true, she knew how to monetize her success very well, and make it a very profitable business.

At just 18 years old, she became one of the most successful content creators on the internet. In fact, proof of this is that in 2021, Charli D’Amelio was the highest paid tiktoker in the world, and earned more than R$91 million.

In addition, the young woman also occupies second place on the American Forbes Top Creators 2022 list, which chooses the biggest influencers on the internet, considering number of followers, engagement and entrepreneurship.

Companies

Charli saw the potential of her influence on TikTok and didn’t abandon the dances that launched her on the internet, but she dedicated much of her content to promoting brands and partnerships. However, soon the young woman began to invest in her own brands and companies, moving away from promoting other people’s products to promoting her own.

Among Charli’s various ventures is her own clothing brand, Social Tourist, which is a partnership with Hollister and her sister, 21-year-old Dixie. She also participates in the family’s reality show, The D’Amelios Show. More recently, the tiktoker also launched its fragrance brand, Born Dreamer.

Along with her family, she has other ventures, such as the photo and video editing platform Lightricks. But the flagship is D’Amelio Brands, a family-owned consumer products company valued at more than $100 million.

The family that made its name and success is currently one of the business success stories, and attracts other large companies such as Amazon and Prada that pay up to R$1.3 million per post on social media.

Dubbing

Charli D’Amelio was signed by Hollywood agency UTA. Therefore, the young woman who, in addition to being a dancer, is also an actress and voice actress, got her first job of this kind in the same year.

Then, in June 2020, Charli starred in the animated children’s film StarDog and TurboCat, where she voiced the character Tinker. This, in fact, was the first role in a feature film in Charli’s career, and apparently she still has a lot to do.

Before the fame

Before becoming a TikTok hit, Charli D’Amelio was already a professional dancer. The girl started dancing in childhood, when she was just 3 years old. So, at the age of 5, she was already participating in dance competitions.

So, at the beginning of 2019, when she was starting to become known, the girl was just 15 years old, and decided to continue studying at a private school in Connecticut. According to her, it was a way of trying to maintain the balance of normal life with sudden success.

Still in 2019, Charli was one of the dancers at the Bebe Rexha and Jonas Brothers shows in New York.

Controversies involving Charli D’Amelio

One of the biggest controversies involving Charli D’Amelio happened at the end of 2020 when the tiktoker made a comment that was interpreted negatively by internet users and even earned her death threats.

It all started when she and her sister posted a video where they appeared having dinner with their parents and a family friend. In the video, Charli comments that she wanted to end the year with 100 million followers. However, the comment was understood by her followers as pejorative and that she only cared about fame and number of followers.

However, the situation took on other proportions and the tiktoker received death threats for saying this in the video. After the controversy, several celebrities came out to defend Charli. One of them was actor Noah Schnapp, one of the protagonists of the series Stranger Things.

“Guys, she is a human being too. She’s just a normal young girl like the rest of us. Our generation preaches love and kindness and yet you are acting this way. This is very sad”the actor posted on social media.

Charli even went live after that, crying and said that she no longer had the desire to continue being an influencer if she were to receive so much hate.

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