Biography
Who is Caroline Calloway?
Early life and education
Caroline Calloway was born in Falls Church, Virginia. She attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria and later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At age 17, she changed her surname to Gotschall Calloway to improve her image for future books. Her maternal great-grandfather, Owen Burns, was a real estate developer in Sarasota, Florida.
She started studying art history at New York University. In 2013, she entered St Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge. She graduated in 2016 with lower second-class honours. Caroline later admitted she forged her credentials to get into the university. During her time there, she struggled with depression and general anxiety disorder. She also spoke about her addiction to Adderall.
Rise to fame on Instagram
Caroline joined Instagram in 2012 with assistance from Natalie Beach. She used the platform to share her experiences at the University of Cambridge through long captions. To increase her reach, she paid for advertisements and bought followers. People called her the Gatsby of Cambridge because of the expensive parties she hosted. These events took place in rented rooms at various colleges that looked better on her profile.
She also helped the account Depths of Wikipedia grow by promoting its posts. This happened after a conflict with Annie Rauwerda, who had written about her online. Later, Rauwerda adopted a cat from her.
Writing and business ventures
In 2015, Flatiron Books offered Caroline Calloway a memoir deal worth 500,000 dollars. She received a 30 percent advance for the book titled And We Were Like. She hired Natalie Beach to help write the proposal and the book. However, she withdrew from the contract in 2017. Natalie Beach stated the actual deal was for 375,000 dollars and that Caroline owed 100,000 dollars back to the publisher. Caroline then sold the annotated proposal on Etsy.
In December 2018, she started a Creativity Workshop Tour across several US cities. Tickets cost 165 dollars per person. She failed to book the venues, and the tour was canceled. She eventually held two workshops in New York. A reporter compared the event to the Fyre Festival. Caroline later sold t-shirts on Threadless that targeted the reporter, but the site suspended the items for harassment. In August 2019, she held another New York workshop called The Scam.
Later work and personal life
Natalie Beach wrote a 2019 essay for The Cut titled I Was Caroline Calloway. The piece claimed Beach ghostwrote many of the captions and the book proposal. Caroline responded in 2020 with a series of articles. She put these behind a paywall and raised nearly 50,000 dollars for medical workers. In June 2023, she released her first book, Scammer, through her own website.
Caroline started an OnlyFans account in 2020. She claimed Playboy planned a photo shoot for her, but the magazine denied this. Her content included cosplay and photos with details about her father's autopsy. In May 2020, she claimed to earn 223,800 dollars annually from the site. In 2021, she sold a blend of oils called Snake Oil. She lived in Manhattan until 2022, then moved to Sarasota, Florida from 2023 to 2026. She stayed in her home during Hurricane Milton in 2024. She returned to New York City in 2026.
Birthday and age
Caroline Calloway was born on December 5, 1991, which makes Caroline 34 years old today. That birthday falls under the Sagittarius sign. Caroline shares the date with 60 other famous people.
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