Amber Rose

About

Amber Rose Levonchuck (born October 21, 1983) is an American model and television personality. She gained attention after she starred in the music video for Young Jeezy’s 2008 single “Put On”, which featured Kanye West. She began a romantic relationship with West, leading her to model for the Louis Vuitton brand; she then signed a modeling contract with Ford Models. She earned wider recognition as a video vixen in more hip hop videos. After splitting from West in 2010, she dated and in 2013 married rapper Wiz Khalifa, but filed for divorce in 2014. Simon & Schuster then published her book How to Be a Bad Bitch. In 2015 she founded the Los Angeles chapter of the SlutWalk protest march, an annual feminist demonstration founded in Toronto. The next year she hosted her own talk show, The Amber Rose Show, for VH1, and began hosting the syndicated radio call-in program Loveline.

Amber Rose Levonchuck was born in Philadelphia on October 21, 1983 to Dorothy Rose, who was 23 at the time, and Michael Levonchuck who was 19. Her father is of Irish and Italian descent and her mother is of Cape Verdean descent. She has one brother named Antonio Hewlett. Rose grew up in South Philadelphia…