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Amber Rose, the 35-year-old stripper-turned-model, claims that she nets about $2 million from posting on Instagram. Born Amber Levonchuck, the bi-racial beauty boasts 18.8 million followers on Instagram, where she frequently flaunts beauty, fashion, and diet products. And it turns out that these sponsored posts are helping her rake in major coins.
During an interview on The Red Pill podcast, host Van Lathan asked Rose how much she earns on the social media site. “Probably like $2 million a year, just off Instagram,” she said. “There’s girls that make more than $2 million a year, I make $2 million on Instagram a year.” Rose explained that she generates revenue through “all of her endorsement deals,” which have included companies like online retailer Fashion Nova and controversial weight loss products like BoomBod and Flat Tummy tea.
In response, Lathan joked that “a ni–a went to college and bought into that bulls–t, and Amber’s making $2 million off Instagram. Wow!”
Rose also opened up in the interview about her tough upbringing in Philadelphia, revealing that she initially started selling drugs as a means of survival before she began stripping as a teen.
“I usually don’t tell people this, but I tried selling crack in my neighborhood,” Rose confessed. “They said I was gonna get robbed, I was a girl and I was too pretty, and it wasn’t going to happen,” she said. “So what I did, I would bag it up for them, I would weigh it and bag up the crack rocks for them. And they would throw me some money.”
According to BankRate.com, Rose has amassed a $12 million net worth throughout her career as an author, media personality, music artist, and a former model signed with Ford Models. She also launched her own emoji app that reportedly earned $4 million in 2016. She gained her claim to fame as a video vixen and by dating Kanye West from 2008 to 2010.
In 2016, Rose appeared on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars and became the ambassador for the SlutWalk, an annual women’s empowerment march to combat rape culture. That same year, she has teamed up with Zoobe, a character voice-messaging app that creates 3D characters.
Watch Rose’s interview on The Red Pill below. Her remarks about her Instagram endorsements start around the 1:20:00 mark.
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If there’s one bright spot to come out of the hot mess that was Suicide Squad, it was Margot Robbie’s pitch perfect performance as beloved bad girl Harley Quinn. We already know that Robbie is set to reprise the role in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey, alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress and Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary.
But is the DCEU planning a Harley Quinn trilogy? Rumors are swirling that Birds of Prey will be the first chapter in an all-female saga, with Gotham City Sirens coming up next followed by Birds of Prey v Gotham City Sirens. A version of Gotham City Sirens that teams up Harley with Poison Ivy and Catwoman was in development, but was put on the back burner once Birds of Prey came together.
Of course, this will all likely depend on the box office performance of Birds of Prey. Thankfully, the “debate” over whether or not female-led superhero films can succeed at the box office has largely been put to rest thanks to the massive success of Wonder Woman and the pre-sale figures for Captain Marvel.
The only question is whether another year at the box office will give audiences superhero genre fatigue, since Birds of Prey is set for 2020. But given how strong the box office was for Aquaman, we doubt the trend is falling anytime soon.
(via Geeks WorldWide, image: Warner Bros.)
- Check out the Myers-Briggs personalities of your favorite Marvel Netflix villains and see who you match up with. (via CBR)
- Comics legend George Pérez, the man behind The New Teen Titans, is retiring. (via io9)
- The shooting date for Fantastic Beasts 3 has been delayed, hopefully because they’re rethinking everything they did in Fantastic Beasts 2. (via Deadline)
- Deadpool burns Colossus and Wolverine with the Ten Year Challenge. (via Twitter)
…don’t think I forgot about you, Colossus. (@StefanKapicic)
2019/2029 pic.twitter.com/cuUWp84bBv
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) January 18, 2019
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What is family? Does a shared DNA make a collection of people kin to one another? And if our past experiences are what make us who we are, then who are we when the past we thought we knew isn’t exactly true? These are just some of the existential questions raised in the new Netflix and BBC series Black Earth Rising.
Michaela Coel stars in this weighty drama as Kate Ashby, a successful investigator still on the mend after a failed suicide attempt some time prior. But the suicide attempt is merely the manifestation of a lifetime of trauma. Kate is actually a native Rawandan who was adopted by Eve Ashby (Harriet Walter), a White British prosecutor, after being rescued during the 1994 genocide of Rawanda’s Tutsi population. Now an adult investigator working at a top law firm, Kate doesn’t know much about her origins, including her birth name. However, the harsh physical and mental scars haunt her as daily reminders of what she’s survived.
Though Kate and her mother are close, their relationship is pushed to the limits when Eve is called to prosecute a warlord who has allegedly forced child soldiers into combat while in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The only problem? He’s same warlord whose army put an end to the Tutsi genocide that murdered Kate’s family. At first it seems as the story we’ll be watching is one about how a mother and daughter overcome such an insurmountable challenge, but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. Underneath lies a richer, darker mystery that Kate will risk her life to uncover.
Dramatic events in the show’s second episode throw everything we thought we knew about the series’ premise and characters is thrown into complete disarray. What was once a clean-cut Mother/Daughter story quickly expands into an in-depth look at a brutal civil war, a frank analysis of the effects of White colonialism on the African continent, the right of predominately White countries to subject African people to international laws crafted after centuries of said colonialism, and a discussion on how our pasts do or don’t define us. Each of these topics are explored in a searing honesty as Kate tracks slowly uncovers the truth behind an international scandal that could have global implications.
While Michaela Coel may be known for her comedic skills in shows like Chewing Gum (we still want a 3rd season, Michaela!), she proves that her dramatic chops are nothing to sneeze at in Black Earth Rising. While Michaela may be a British citizen of Ghanaian descent, there are moments in Black Earth Rising where its as if Coel is in fact a Rawandan digging through the emotional muck left over from the 1994 genocide as she digs deep into the psyche of her character.
Black Earth Rising also does a detailed, if sometimes difficult to follow, job of explaining the complex histories of Rawanda’s Hutu and Tutsi peoples, the events that lead to the country’s civil war in 1990, and the genocide of the Tutsi people that followed. It’s a breathtaking, albeit tragically brutal history lesson that every person of any background should learn.
The biggest drawback to Black Earth Rising is its occasional slow pacing. Some scenes, like an emotional underwater incident with Kate and her boss (John Goodman), drag a bit too long, presumably for dramatic effect. At other times the plot moves at a snail’s pace, sacrificing plot advancement in favor of long-winded political diatribes.
If you’re looking for a multi-layered political drama and are ready for a good cry, then Black Earth Rising may be for you. But be warned, some of the material may be trigger inducing, even for those without an immediate connection to the Rawandan genocide itself.
Black Earth Rising premieres Friday, January 24 on Netflix.
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