Who is Amber Rose, the model and OnlyFans star who spoke at the RNC?

However after speaking along with her pro-Trump father and assembly “red-hat-wearing supporters,” the mom of two instructed the energetic crowd at Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee, she determined to “put the pink hat on, too.”

“I’m right here tonight to inform you, irrespective of your political background, that the very best probability now we have to provide our infants a greater life is to elect Donald Trump president of the USA,” Rose mentioned.

Her some five-minute speech left many questioning how a girl whose earlier claims to fame embody organizing a SlutWalk protesting gender inequality ended up rallying for a Republican whose 2016 presidential run she opposed and who has since been discovered answerable for sexual abuse.

A South Philadelphia native, Rose has mentioned that she began stripping at 15 years previous to assist her household financially. She has been open about her work within the intercourse trade, however she instructed the New York Occasions in 2022 that she has felt unfairly lowered to being sexualized and to being “somebody’s girlfriend” primarily based on it.

She rose to mainstream fame in 2008, when she appeared within the music video for “Put On” by Younger Jeezy. She labored with Ye, then generally known as Kanye West, on the identical set, and went on to this point him for about two years.

Rose moved amongst numerous sectors of the leisure world for years, showing in actuality reveals corresponding to “Dancing With the Stars,” making music video cameos and releasing just a few songs in a short-lived music profession.

In 2013, she married rapper Wiz Khalifa, with whom she has a son. They filed for divorce after a few yr.

She notably organized just a few hundred girls to participate within the Amber Rose SlutWalk in Los Angeles in 2015, protesting gender inequality and slut-shaming and selling intercourse positivity.

Rose instructed the Each day Beast of her plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, saying she was excited by the concept of the nation’s first feminine president. Like a number of celebrities on the time, she threatened to maneuver to Canada if Trump had been elected president, though she later instructed the Lower that the transfer was unlikely to occur.

She additionally briefly dated celebrities corresponding to Machine Gun Kelly and 21 Savage earlier than having a son in 2019 with Alexander “A.E.” Edwards, a music government who’s now courting Cher.

And in 2020, Rose created an OnlyFans account, likening her web page to “a digital strip membership” on the “No Jumper” podcast. She additionally talked about in podcasts that she has been clear along with her eldest son about her previous as a stripper and her OnlyFans work.

It wasn’t till earlier this yr that Rose publicly modified her stance on the previous president. In Might, she posted an image on Instagram of her posing with Trump and his spouse, Melania, with the caption “Trump 2024.” A deluge of polarized feedback adopted. Some had been puzzled by her change of coronary heart, stating that Trump has a historical past of lewd feedback about girls, and final yr was discovered liable by a civil jury for sexual abusing E. Jean Carroll within the Nineties.

Whereas her speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference garnered applause, some conservatives have taken to social media to criticize the choice to advertise her, noting that, amongst many different issues on her résumé, she has additionally advocated for abortion rights.

Rose couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.