Meg Zukin For Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, we interviewed TikTok stars about their lives in quarantine.Charli D’Amelio doesn’t know how she became the most-followed person on TikTok.
Since posting her first video in May 2019, the 16-year-old has danced with Jennifer Lopez, appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” performed at the NBA All-Star Game, and signed with one of Hollywood’s top agencies UTA.
But if you strip away her 70-plus million followers, D’Amelio is just a regular teenage girl who is trying to navigate this overnight fame while completing her homework.
She spoke to Variety about how her life has changed over the past year.It’s been a lot of Amazon shopping, a lot of coffee, a lot of Zoom meetings.
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