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Say what you will about Amber Rose, you’ve got to respect her hustle and work ethic.
But there’s muchmore to Rose’s life and accomplishmentsthan just the men in her life.
Her determination to succeed in showbiz does not end here, however.
She thought it would be an easy way to make money but it wasn’t fun.
“I was very, very young,” she said.
“I did it and I was like ‘Ohhell no, I cannot do this.’
I was a kid.”
“That was the best time of my life!
Oh god, I had so much fun.
All the girls were really cool.
The guys weren’t allowed to touch you,” she recalled to Cosmopolitan.
Go in there, make your money, go home, pay your bills."
In short, keep the boundaries firm between your stripper identity and the rest of your life.
Additionally, “Don’t do anything after, before or during, sexually,” she warned.
“A lot of things pertaining to SlutWalk happened to me,” Rose said to Harper’s Bazaar.
“I didn’t know how to articulate what was going on and why I was feeling this way.
It was because I was sexually assaulted, I had been raped, and I was slut-shamed.
I was victim-blamed, as well.”
She, thus, became determined to empower other women to speak up for their rights.
But becoming an international style icon wasn’t her first dream.
It was easy to see why.
Almost everyone I grew up with is either on drugs or dead," she toldAZ Central.
Her local schools didn’t offer much support, either.
All of this pushed Rose to start her entertainment career young and she hasn’t stopped since.
AsLife & Stylereported, Rose’s sons benefit from the support of both of their fathers.
Both men were spied with Rose and the baby cheering on 6-year-old Thomaz at his baseball game.
For Rose, this was both a blessing and a curse.
Initially, absolutely," she told theDaily Beast.
But she had no intention of making that her only claim to fame.
“I’m not a convenient girl.
you’re free to’t just fly me out when you want to and have me on call.
I kind of just do what I do when I do it,” she toldE!
This is fully consistent with her desire to run her life and build her career on her own terms.
“It’s tough to date me,” she told E!
Guys want to feel superior, and with me, I’m a boss as well.
If that’s uncomfortable … it’s not gonna work."
“We are the best of friends.
He’s that dude,” she told The Daily Beast.
She also countered rumors that she and Khalifa “celebrated” their divorce at a strip club.
“We’d signed our divorce papers four, five months prior to that night,” she explained.
They’re celebrating their divorce!'
We wouldnevercelebrate our divorce …
It was a very difficult time," Rose said.
In short, their evening out seemed to mark the start of their new relationship.
But Amber Rose found that standing her ground and not playing nice can pay off, too.
“One day, I just woke up and I was like, ‘You know what?
I can’t sit around and stress anymore about the Internet and what people say about me.
I just gotta do me.”
As Rose toldE!, DWTS had been a stressful experience from the start.
She later told E!
she regretted signing up for the show.
“I’m not really good with a lot of attention.
I probably shouldn’t have done this show, but whatever,” she said.
Her face tattoos got people talking
Amber Rose has long been known for her extravagant tattoos.
And, according toBody Art Guru, most of them have some personal significance to her.
But Rose told the magazine she was unconcerned with what anyone thought.
“Not everybody is gonna get a face tat.
That’s what separates me from them,” she said to Us Weekly.
“I don’t live my life for other people …
If I let people affect me in that way, I would just be miserable every day.
I wouldn’t be the great mom that I am.”
And, no matter what anyone thinks, she’s not done honoring her kids in ink, either.
For Rose, the desire to create attractive fashion options for women of all sizes was personal.
“After I had my son, I was plus size.
I had never been plus size before.
And this is also the reason she intentionally priced everything in her collection under $100.
“I grew up very poor in Philly.
I always wanted to be fashionable.
I used to go to the thrift stores,” she told Teen Vogue.
“Two of my very close family members overdosed,” she toldAZ Central.
But the show also contains messages about being sexually responsible and having a positive body image.”
