After being discovered online by Justin Bieber, Beer shot to fame in 2012.
She landed a major record deal and quickly became a highly marketed pop princess.
She’s also captured the attention of none other than Lana Del Rey.
Although she may be young, Beer’s life has already been filled with twists and turns.
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Here is the stunning transformation of Madison Beer.
Her parents are Tracie and Robert Beer, an interior designer and construction worker, respectively.
“I just knew that I wanted to make singing what my life revolved around.”
“I’ve been performing since I was four,” she told GQ.
“I used to do these after-school plays where the parents would come and watch.”
Soon after, she made a YouTube channel where she began posting covers of popular songs.
Her classmates teased her for singing online.
As she toldThe Telegraph, “everybody was cookie-cutter, so being yourself was hard.”
However, she persevered with her singing and kept uploading videos to YouTube.
#future star," hetweetedat the time.
Beer then explained that she started “hysterically crying” on the street.
Beerreplied simply, “OMG.”
The tweet racked up over 11,000 likes and Beer suddenly shot to fame.
The 13-year-old Beer soon signed a deal with Island Records with Scooter Braun, Bieber’s manager.
She and her family packed up and moved to Los Angeles.
However, life as a teen pop star wasn’t exactly easy.
“I remember older men calling me hot when I was 13, and it made me uncomfortable.
Going to concerts and being backstage and seeing people do drugs…
I was not protected.”
The experiences she had at that age, she said, were indeed traumatic.
She added, “I was definitely not shielded from the dark side of the industry.
I was thrown into the depths of it.”
Her sudden fame also had a severe impact on her family.
Her younger brother, Ryder, had a particularly hard time.
It took years for the siblings to work through their childhood issues that stemmed from her budding career.
As she told The i, she was dropped “Snip you’re gone!”
Being dropped was hard.
Releasing this EP was like showing a part of my soul to the world."
“I’ve sort of been picked apart since I was super young …
I’ve had my appearance commented on for a majority of my life, which wasn’t easy.
It’s never gotten easy,” she toldUK’s Glamour.
The constant judgment made her “kind of crawl into a shell a bit.”
When she was 14, private nude photos of Beer were leaked and made public without her consent.
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As of this writing, the singer has almost 19 million followers onTikTokand almost 38 million followers onInstagram.
She added, “I take a stab at just post when I feel like it …
I don’t want to ever force myself into doing anything I don’t want to do.
She also tries to avoid spending too much time online.
“Contain your relationships and friendships in the real world,” she told Numero.
“I think that social media is kind of nonsense a lot.”
Despite her huge platform, it’s clear that Beer never lets herself become consumed by social media.
Beer wrote, produced, and performed the songs on the album herself.
She went on to explain that she often spent hours crying in the recording studio.
She spent a lot of the lockdown period reflecting and speaking to a wise friend.
She came out feeling better about herself than ever.
“I was self-hating for a very long time,” she confessed toThe Forty-Fivein 2023.
“I believed I didn’t deserve love, I was negative.
I grew out of it.”
These days, she believes that she deserves love from herself and others.
“I’ve learned a lot over the last few years,” she added.
In fact, Beer even tries to think of herself as her own best friend.
As the singer explained toOfficial Charts, Del Rey is her “idol of all idols.”
She added, “Lana Del Rey’s somebody I look up to so much.”
Beer was thrilled when Del Rey approached her at a coffee shop and complimented her on her music.
“I was like, ‘Hi.
What’s happening right now?’
Beer later recalled while speaking to Del Rey for Interview Magazine.
“I couldn’t believe it.”
That interview with Del Rey was, in itself, also a massive milestone.
“She’s my literal mother.
I would kill for a collaboration; I would die to make that happen.
I will try every day, forever.”
The album reached number 16 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart after its release.
“It really just organically grew on its own, and I let it happen.”
“It’s a really vulnerable record; all the songs are very meaningful.”
In fact, she knows that there’s still plenty to look forward to.
One thing she knows is that her future will be less about fame and more about following her heart.
