- Addison Rae is 24 years old
- She started her career on TikTok, being part of the content group, the Hype House
- Now she has turned her attention to singing with songs like Diet Pepsi and Headphones On
Another social media star turned singer has entered the pipeline. Let’s introduce you to Addison Rae. Rae, 24, started on TikTok doing viral dance trends back in 2020. From there, she joined the Hype House content house group with the likes of Charli D’Amelio, Bryce Hall, and Vinnie Hacker. If you’re a bit older, they’re a younger version of Jake Paul and his YouTube group Team 10.
Like her friend D’Amelio, 21, Rae’s talent focused on dancing. Back in 2020, weren’t we all doing dances in quarantine? Currently, Rae has over 88.4 million followers on TikTok.
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While she may not dance much anymore, we will never forget those early days.
Now the 24-year-old has turned her attention to a music career, having announced her debut album release for June 2025.
But behind the music, who is Rae?
Who is Addison Rae?
Addison Rae Easterling was born on 6 October 2000 in Lafayette, Louisiana, to her parents, Monty Lopez and Sheri Easterling. Rae has two younger brothers and an older sister.
Her parents have prominently featured on her social media, and throughout her childhood, they had an on-and-off relationship. However, they remarried in 2017 and subsequently divorced in 2022. Weirdly, Rae’s mother, Sheri, had a brief fling with rapper Yung Gravy in 2022.
From a young age, Rae was a competitive dancer. For a brief period, she attended Louisiana State University, but later dropped out to pursue her growing TikTok career.
Her career
Even before COVID-19, Rae gained some attention on TikTok for her dance videos to trending songs. As viral dance trends go, she gained popularity and quickly surpassed one million followers.
Subsesquently, she took on a social media career full-time, launching a podcast under the name Mama Knows Best, which she later rebranded to That Was Fun in 2021.
In 2021, she released her debut single Obsessed, which was not received well by critics. After that, Rae tried her hand at other endeavors. She launched her beauty brand Item Beauty, and starred in Netflix’s remake of She’s All That called He’s All That.
Addison Rae – her breakthrough
Again, her acting performance was roasted by critics, and her acting career was temporarily paused.
By some miracle, Rae’s tracks for her unreleased EP leaked on YouTube, which gained her traction in the music world. Her first EP AR was released in 2023, to much more favorable reviews than Obsessed. Also in 2023, Rae starred as Gabby in the slasher horror film Thanksgiving.
Leading into March 2024, she became viral again after featuring on the remix of Charli XCX’s remix of her hit Von Dutch. Following the success of that remix, she featured on A.G. Cook’s album Britpop and another song with Charli, titled Lucifer.
In August 2024, Rae went viral for her successful pop song Diet Pepsi.
Diet Pepsi was successful in streams and critically, it peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. On Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s joint tour, she performed the song at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Later, she released the single Aquamarine in September 2024.
Moving into 2025, Rae confirmed to Rolling Stone that her debut album was coming in 2025. The following month, she released the single High Fashion. Rae continued to promote her music and was featured in Vogue France.
In April, she made her Coachella debut performing Aquamarine alongside Arca. She also joined Charli XCX on stage at her set to perform Von Dutch.
Confirming her album, she revealed it would be released on 6 June. Finally, she released her second-most successful single, Headphones On.
Her public image
To some, Rae is a celebrity, having mixed with famous music stars and achieving some mainstream success with her music. Additionally, she has partnered with various companies and has even attended the Met Gala. Back in 2020, the Kid Laroi released a song titled Addison Rae which called the Diet Pepsi singer a “baddie”.
That’s a bad one for the Gen-Z history books.
Who has Addison Rae dated?
In October 2020, Rae confirmed she was in a relationship with Hall, 25, a fellow TikToker from the Hype House. In 2021, Hall and Rae broke up. Following her relationship with him, Rae began dating music producer Omer Fedi.
As for whether Fedi and Rae are still together? In January 2025, she confirmed they were, but now? We don’t know.
