Addison Rae brushes off Met Gala invite backlash with cheeky message to fans
The Met Gala is making its grand return in September, but not everyone is happy with the rumored invitees, one of which is TikTok star-turned-actress Addison Rae.
Addison Rae is a huge celebrity in the social media world, and she’s slowly but surely making her way into the mainstream. First cracking the ceiling of TikTok fame in 2019, Rae has gone on to accrue animpressive 82 million fanson the app, as well as gaining 36 million Instagram followers. However, she’s more than an influencer; Rae alsoscored a starring role in the upcoming Netflix film‘He’s All That,’ and haslaunched her very own makeup line,Item Beauty, which she promotes whenever she’s not kicking back with the Kardashians.
Addison Rae Met Gala backlash
Despite these great strides in her career, Rae has received an ample amount of backlash after reports claimed she and YouTuber Emma Chamberlainreceived purported invites to the 2021 Met Gala— a prestigious event usually reserved for the super-elite of music, movies, and fashion.
Many critics have expressed that influencers simply aren’t famous enough to attend such a high-class affair, while others don’t feel that their fashion sense is up to snuff. While promoting her Item Beauty brand at Sephora stores on August 19, Rae was approached by paparazzi from the Hollywood Fix, who asked her for a response to the ongoing backlash against her purported presence at the Gala next month.
