1. Caroline Gotschall Calloway was born on December 5,1991 and is an American social media celebrity and author who initially developed a following while she was a student at the University of Cambridge.
20 Facts About Caroline Calloway
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Caroline Calloway is the author of the 2023 memoir Scammer, the title of which references accusations of scamming she has received from fans and critics.
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Caroline Calloway began undergraduate studies in art history at New York University.
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Caroline Calloway later admitted to having forged her academic credentials to secure admission to Cambridge.
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Caroline Calloway has stated that she has general anxiety disorder and depression.
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Caroline Calloway has been open about her Adderall abuse and addiction while at Cambridge.
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Caroline Calloway joined Instagram in 2012 with the help of her NYU classmate Natalie Beach.
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Caroline Calloway bought followers and purchased ads to grow her account.
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Caroline Calloway became known as the "Gatsby of Cambridge" for the lavish parties that she documented online, which she hosted in rented rooms at other Cambridge colleges that she considered more Instagram-worthy than St Edmund's.
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Caroline Calloway brought Depths of Wikipedia its first wave of followers, publicizing the account's posts favorably after resolving an incident in which Annie Rauwerda had posted about Caroline Calloway's Wikipedia page.
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In 2016 it was announced that Caroline Calloway would publish a memoir titled And We Were Like about her time at Cambridge with Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, with the help of literary agent Byrd Leavell.
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Caroline Calloway then set up an initial meeting with Leavell by pretending to his secretary that she was already his client.
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Caroline Calloway announced via her Instagram stories in 2017 that she was withdrawing from her book deal after failing to fulfill her contract.
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In December 2018, Caroline Calloway launched an international "Creativity Workshop Tour".
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In September 2019, Beach wrote an essay for The Cut, "I Was Caroline Calloway", chronicling her friendship with Calloway and disclosing that she had ghostwritten a number of the Instagram captions credited to Calloway and collaborated with her to produce a subsequent book proposal.
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Caroline Calloway's story is interesting, sure, it's a life she's lived to write this specific book.
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In 2020, Caroline Calloway created an OnlyFans account, promising videographic and photographic content containing nudity.
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Caroline Calloway alleged in interviews that her intention to enter the adult entertainment industry had been planned by Playboy, and that the magazine had commissioned a photo shoot of her dressed as a student in a library.
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Until March 2022, Caroline Calloway lived in the West Village in Manhattan.
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Caroline Calloway refused to evacuate her home during Hurricane Milton in 2024 despite a mandatory evacuation order, prompting concerns for her safety from her fans, but survived the storm unharmed.