Growing up, Addison felt that becoming an actor was an unattainable dream, so in college, she studied journalism so that she could still be on TV. She told Elle, “Then I got super lucky with TikTok, and was so blessed with the chance to move to L.A.” After her time on Disney Channel came to a close, she struggled to book more work because casting directors pigeonholed her as a “Disney actress.” She said, “It was like starting back at the bottom and working my way up all the way again.” She told Forbes, “Having no money at certain points was weird…so now it’s so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.” As a teenager, he used social media as a creative outlet. His friends encouraged him to upload his Snapchat stories to Instagram, and after he made his account public, his videos began going viral. His follower count grew to millions while he was still in high school. He told Teen Vogue, “I really don’t think there’s anything in my life right now or any accomplishments that I have that I didn’t manifest.” In 2019, Grade A Productions executive, Lil Bibby, took notice and signed him to a joint deal with Columbia Records. She told the Hollywood Reporter, “I thought that if I made enough money, I’d be able to buy my parents’ house back and that I’d be able to put my parents back together. But when I turned 18, I only had $800 to my name. My parents weren’t back together, and there was nothing I could do to help.” Her first truly successful audition was for 2018’s Sharp Objects. She said, “I had no idea getting into this industry how many people have connections. I started from ground zero, and I know how fucking hard it is. Now I see how someone can just walk in a door, and I’m like, ‘I worked my fucking ass off for 10 years for this.’” Camila told PopSugar, “She learned how to use the program in a week and made enough to move us out of my godmother’s house and into an apartment…[Then] my papá came over from Mexico a year and a half later…he started off washing cars in front of Dolphin Mall in the blistering Miami heat. But we kept moving on up.” Eventually, her parents started a construction company and named it after their daughters. Then, when Camila was in ninth grade, she convinced them to drive her to North Carolina to audition for The X Factor, which led to her spot in Fifth Harmony.
