Before Charli D'Amelio would clock in over 30 Million followers on Tik Tok,
8.7 Million on Instagram, over 1/2 a million on Twitter and 1.5 Million Subscribers on
YouTube at the time of this recording.
Before Charli D'Amelio would get into a relationship with fellow Tik Tok star Lil Huddy and became
a main member of the Hype House.
Before Charlie would collab with Jennifer Lopez, Bebe Rexha and appear in a Superbowl
commercial.
Charli D'Amelio is a big deal, so much so that her name has even generated it's own
definition on Urban Dictionary.
She's essentially Woah Vicky but from a good family and some actual talent.
If you ain't on Tik Tok you ain't keeping up with the internet.
Charli D'Ameilo might just be the most popular girl in all of America.
Her fame came fast with her collecting over 4 Million followers in a month all from posting
lip singing and choreographed dance videos to the app.
Her training as a professional dancer since the age of 3 is certainly paying off in a
big way.
She is even said to be worth over a million dollars and she's only 15 years old.
Of course it hasn't been all positive... as we all know, the internet is filled
with trolls.
The girl just wants to dance!
She is growing at an incredible rate, just before Christmas she was celebrating hitting
10 Million with the following tweet.
i honestly can’t believe that i am about to hit 10 million followers on tik tok the
fact that i haven’t woke up yet and this is real life is still insane to me i am beyond
appreciative and cannot put into words how thankful i am i love you all!!
It's only been a couple months since and she's on her way to 40 Million, this is such a big
deal that we here at Before They Were Famous started our own Tik Tok account.
Link down below.
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden documenting the come up story of Charli D'Amelio prior
to Tik Tok super stardom here for you on Before They Were Famous.
We dropped a poll in the community section and of all the Tik Tok stars this was the
video you wanted us to make.
We did drop a Lil Huddy video but ya'll must of missed it cause the views were low enough
to put me outta business.
Let us know who is next down below, subscribe if you are new.
Now, let's get into this video.
Charli D'Amelio was born on May 1st, 2004 in Norwalk Connecticut to parents Marc and
Heidi D'Amelio.
She has an older sister Dixie.
We purged her Ig for some old photos so there is this, and this and this....
I'm gonna have to be that guy and point out the obvious that it's obvious where her good
looks came from, mom Heidi is a babe.
The family were living the American dream out in Norfolk about an hour outside of New
York City.
The family is financially comfortable which is good news, meaning Charli isn't some golden
goose paying the family bills.
Dad is a businessman while mom is a photographer.
Dad actually ran for Connecticut State Senate in 2018 and lost to the incumbent.
Mom's skills certainly came in handy for her daughters plans to become a dancer, a life
long passion which began when she was just 3 years old.
Young Charli would create her own steps and lip-sync even as a little girl.
She showed great potential early on and her parents admitted her to a dance school where
she began competing professionally at the age of 5.
It wouldn't take long for her to start taking her dance moves online where she would start
posting for the gram.
She attended a private school known as King School who encouraged her pursuit of dance.
On facebook they posted the following.
Congratulations to Charli D'Amelio class of 2022 who competed in the Diva Dance Regional
Dance Competition on March 24 in Hartford.
She competed with two solos - one in the Jazz category and one in the Contemporary category.
Charli competed against 35 other soloists in the 13-16 age category in all different
styles of dance.
She was awarded the Ultimate Sapphire distinction and won the highest scoring solo in her age
category with her contemporary piece 'Moving Mountains'.
This competition is unique in that the judges give their feedback right after each dancer
performs.
Here are some quotes from their feed back: “Dynamic dancer”
“Incredible style” “Gorgeous work”
“Stunning” “You have a really bright future in commercial
dance” “Technique is gorgeous”
“You have the most potential in the entire world for a professional career in dance”
Her life long dream was to dance with J-Low and would attend her concerts whenever she
performed nearby.
Doing research for this video it appears that her original account had the handle CharliDamn
but she eventually changed it to her full name.
Her initial goal was to use Tik Tok to get people over to her Instagram.
"So many people can see my content and see that I dance and maybe it'll draw them to
my Instagram where I have longer clips of me and dance classes or improv"
In July of 2019 she posted a video duet with another Tik Tok user known as Move With Joy.
The video was simple and straightforward, but with the two stars collaborating it stuck
a chord with the algorithm and quickly shot up to million and millions of views.
Charli said, "Ever since then, it's just been growing from there,"
Speaking about her success with NBC news she stated:
"It's kind of crazy to think about it.
I never thought that this would happen.
Like, everyone thinks, 'Oh, that's so cool,' but when it's actually happening — it's
crazy to think about, 'Why do people want to follow me?
What am I doing different than everyone?'
It's just crazy,"
Charli has become a bon-a-fide internet sensation.
She held a fan meet up in her local Norfolk and the kids went crazy.
Speaking on her fame, her dad said:
"We knew that she was a special dancer, so we knew at some point we'd see her on stage.
We knew that she would do great things at some point in her life, it's just come a lot
earlier,"
She now lives in LA, is in a celebrity relationship, is worth a cool million and gets to dance
with celebs.
So if you haven't gotten on Tik Tok yet.... what are you waiting for?
As for the rest of the story, well I'm gonna wrap this up here because this is Before They
Were Famous.