The working-class girl who reinvents herself as a star is a classic, aspirational figure in the greater American mythos. After all, before Marilyn Monroe became the blonde bombshell who rocked the film industry, she was Norma Jeane Baker, a cute brunette working at a munitions factory in Van Nuys, California. Likewise, before there was Addison Rae, the Los Angeles-based TikTok dancer with 88.4 million followers, there was Addison Rae Easterling, a cheerleader from Louisiana with big dreams. And after more than half a decade of dancing to other people’s songs, that Louisiana–turned–California girl is now ready to bet on herself again in a whole new way—by becoming a bona fide pop star.
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