Elle King was born with the kinds of industry connections many young entertainers would kill for.
However, she always insisted on doing things her own way.
“I really care about earning things myself,” she toldThe Evening Standard.
“I’ve played every empty bar, I played street corners until somebody heard me.”
People certainly hear her now.
Read on for a look at the stunning transformation of Elle King.
King joked, “I don’t know if he deserved it or not.”
“You’re a sick man, and I’m gonna tell!”
King’s character exclaims, providing one of the movie’s most quotable lines.
When she was 11, King moved to New York City.
She saw plays with her dad and began to realize that she wanted to be a performer, too.
She later explained toPeople, “I didn’t want to be known as someone’s kid.
I wanted to be my own person.”
Still, she confessed that her upbringing probably gave her some advantages that other people didn’t have.
“I grew up around really funny, talented, creative people,” she said.
“Of course that’s going to leave an imprint on me.”
And it just became a thing."
She released the cover on an EP called, fittingly, “The Elle King EP.”
After years of gigging her way around the music scene, it appeared that things were finally looking up.
She played SXSW in 2013, tellingThe Austin Chroniclethat she was excited about where her career was headed.
King toldBillboardthat the song was based on real experiences, admitting that she’s a difficult person to date.
“Whatever,” she said.
“Those people pissed me off in the first place to make me want to write that song.
All’s fair in love and war.”
“I’ve actually ended up becoming successful for being a s**t,” King joked.
“It’s really nice.”
“Alright,” she said.
“I got a little street cred, finally.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go her way at the ceremony.
Alongside a selfie where she sported dreadlocks and a bindi, King wrote, “Dreads are back.”
Fans were quick to call King out for cultural appropriation.
“If you’re going to appropriate culture, do one at a time,” one commenter wrote.
King didn’t take too kindly to the idea that she’d done something offensive.
In a follow-uppost, she shared a throwback photo of herself as a child, sitting on a toilet.
“In other news, here’s me s***ing,” she wrote.
“What culture am I offending now?”
Her followers were unhappy with the flippant response.
“Oh well.”
AsPajibanoted, King locked down her account amid the backlash.
A few weeks later, her Instagram was public again in time for yet another social media spat.
“I am who I am.
I will continue to be who I am, flaws and all.”
She got engaged to a man named Andrew Ferguson mere days after meeting him.
In early 2017, she wrote onInstagram, “Skipped out on my wedding.
I married Rock&Roll instead.”
The following month, in a since-deleted Instagram post (perE!
“My heart is broken.
I am lost,” she wrote.
A month after the announcement, it was confirmed that Ferguson had been arrested for allegedly choking his wife.
“I thought that by doing drugs it would buy me time to feeling better,” she toldPeople.
And I realized I needed to cut all the darkness out of my life.”
While she dialed her partying days way back, King admitted that she still drank alcohol and used marijuana.
“I have different fun now,” she said.
“It’s not having fun out of pain.”
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In 2018, however several years into being famous in her own right King reconnected with her once-estranged dad.
“When it’s about the kids, the bulls*** kind of goes away.
I love him.”
She frequently shouts out Schneider on social media, posting pictures of them hanging out on Instagram.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, King shared anannouncementfor her father’s new comedy special.
Alongside fiance Dan Tooker,King revealed that she was pregnant.
It’s a terrifying and extremely painful experience for everyone."
“What women go through on this journey make us nothing less than WARRIORS,” she exclaimed.
She gave birth to her son, Lucky Levi Tooker, in September of that year.
“We are all healthy and feeling so blessed!”
she wrote onInstagramalongside an adorable snapshot of herself and her fiance holding their child.
“Welcome to the world Lucky!”
“Motherhood has made me a gentler person, a stronger person,” she ruminated.
“Someone who tries to be …
I’m still working on being less reactive, but I’m happy.”
Unlike her appearance at the Grammys in 2016, she found country music awards shows far more welcoming.
“The rowdier I was, the more people like, amped it up.
They know how to get down,” she toldClassic Country 100.9.
King released “Come Get Your Wife,” her debut country album, in January 2023.
“The fans reminded me of my brother, my sister, and my uncle.”
“I feel such an acceptance here,” she toldNashville Lifestyles.
“I feel like I have been given this freedom.”
“I love old-school, outlaw country,” she gushed.
“Crazy applique stuff.”
“you’re free to be absolutely any size and find something that makes you feel beautiful.
Me being bold with some of my outfits helped me find comfort in my body.”
“I slipped down the stairs making a bottle in the middle of the night,” she wrote.
“Knocked my a** out, resulting in a concussion.”
A month later, King spoke withETabout her scary symptoms in the wake of the accident.
“It was a very intense thing,” she said.
“They said I got amnesia and got post-concussion syndrome.”
she toldPeopleshortly after the album’s release.
“And it’s the best music I’ve ever made.”
A few months after the album dropped, King performed onstage at the Stagecoach music festival.
She refused to explain the jacket while speaking withET.
In August 2023, she revealed onInstagramthat she had experienced a deep postpartum depression.
“I felt trapped in my body.
I couldn’t even sing.”
to get to work on herself, King focused on her physical health.
“Some days I count stretch marks.
Some days I hug myself and say thank you to my body.
Today is a kind day.
I’ve been tiny, I’ve been huge, BUT RIGHT NOW IM HEALTHY.”
Fans were surprised by the photos attached to the post, which showed off a slimmer figure.
“You’re incredible and I’m so glad you’re feeling better.”
