WITH 64.4 cardinal fans connected Instagram, she’s got much followers than Cristiano Ronaldo's woman Georgina Rodriguez.
But chances are Brits whitethorn not person heard of Brazilian superstar Anitta, who tin laic assertion to the rubric of the world’s astir fashionable WAG.
One of the biggest Latin musicians of her procreation - with much than 30million monthly Spotify listeners, a Grammy nomination, and collaborations with stars specified arsenic Cardi B and Kylie to her sanction - Annita is said to beryllium worthy a chill $50million.
So she'll surely beryllium out-earning her footballer beau, Vinicius Souza, who hails from plucky Championship broadside Sheffield United.
From humble beginnings successful a Rio de Janeiro favela, Annita has conquered South America with her chart-topping hits, adjacent performing astatine the Olympics opening ceremony.
Fiercely independent, she acted arsenic her ain manager for years, and has adjacent sat connected the committee of Latin America’s biggest banks.
And a viral video of her getting a tattoo connected her bum spiralled into a arguable governmental ungraded engulfing then-president Jair Bolsanaro.
So conscionable who is the “Queen of Brazilian Pop”?
Humble origins
With an artisan mum and a car artillery salesman dad, Anitta was calved successful 1993, increasing up successful the Honório Gurgel favela, 1 of the poorest neighbourhoods successful Rio de Janeiro.
Following her parents' divorcement erstwhile she was a toddler, the household recovered themselves adjacent much strapped for cash.
The aboriginal pop-megastar slept successful the aforesaid country arsenic her mum and brother, arsenic this was wherever their aircon was - but they could lone spend to power it connected for a fewer minutes each night.
Anitta has spoken since astir however overmuch household means to her - and however they support her humble.
“Family is the happening that makes maine consciousness grounded,” she said, speaking to Nylon mag.
“When I travel backmost home, I’m treated arsenic the aforesaid motherf***er arsenic always. I talk to them virtually each day.”
While she’d ever declared astatine a young property that she was destined to beryllium a star, it was a viral video uploaded successful 2010 of her singing into a instrumentality of deodorant that led to that becoming a reality.
At conscionable 16 years old, she caught the attraction of grounds statement Furacão 2000, which specialises successful a benignant of euphony called “funk carioca”.
After releasing her archetypal single, Meiga e Abusada, successful 2012, she past brought retired her self-titled debut - which went consecutive to fig 1 and is certified platinum successful her location country.
Shortly aft this, the euphony video for her 2nd single, Show Das Poderosas, went viral.
In little than a week, it became Brazil’s most-watched euphony video connected YouTube of each time.
Now, with 32.6 cardinal monthly listeners connected Spotify, she’s wide considered to beryllium Brazil’s biggest pistillate popstar.
She’s won 4 Latin American Music Awards, 3 MTV Music Video Awards, and has been nominated for a Grammy for champion caller creator - portion her 2022 deed Envolver spawned a TikTok situation of twerking with your caput connected the floor.
The prima has besides often cited Madonna arsenic an inspiration, and performed alongside her successful beforehand of 1.6 cardinal radical connected Copacabana Beach successful Rio.
Fiercely outspoken
Annita isn't acrophobic to bash things her ain way, having acted arsenic her ain manager until 2019, maintaining full power implicit sponsorship partnerships, concern deals, and directing her ain euphony videos.
She has spoken confidently astir showing disconnected her cellulite - but is besides blessed to speech astir her integrative country journey, which includes a chemoreceptor job, jaw-line reshaping, and aggregate bosom reductions.
Speaking to Nylon she said: “I won’t beryllium pretending I’m immoderate benignant of mode that I’m not."
“Girls don’t request men for s**t. We got vibrators, we got friends - we got cheery friends, which is mode amended than immoderate different f***ing husband. Trust me.”
While she proudly embraces her sexuality, she’s besides made it wide that she’s truthful overmuch much than conscionable a enactment object.
She told Today: “I don’t attraction astir talking astir sexuality. It’s portion of our life, and it’s a large portion of who I am, truthful I don’t caput astatine each being asked astir it. I emotion being a intersexual person. It’s portion of my character.
“I conscionable don’t similar it erstwhile radical deliberation that’s conscionable it. When radical dainty maine arsenic if ‘Oh, being sexy is each she knows.’ No, that’s not each I know. I was managing my ain vocation for truthful galore years. I’m a concern woman.
“I can’t beryllium reduced to conscionable enactment - I bash truthful much, and I inactive privation to bash overmuch more.”
Insta's biggest WAGs
While Anitta whitethorn instrumentality fig 1 spot, present are the different WAGs that person stacked up the followers connected Instagram... and go stars successful their ain right.
- Georgina Rodriguez - 61.6m
- Antonela Roccuzzo - 40.3m
- Becky G - 47.4m
- Victoria Beckham - 33m
- Perrie Edwards - 19.2m
- Alisha Lehmann - 17m
- Pilar Rubio - 11m
- Bruna Biancardi - 10.6m
- Leigh-Anne Pinnock - 10m
- Diletta Leotta - 9.1m
‘15million boyfriends’
Since coming retired arsenic bisexual successful her archetypal Netflix documentary, Vai Anitta, successful 2018, the prima has been unfastened astir her relationships - and the assortment of her dating life.
“I hatred hiding things,” she told Nylon. “Yeah, [I] f*** girls too.”
She’s antecedently been linked to stars including Brazilian vocalist Mr Thug, dancer Ohana Lefundes, Colombian megastar Maluma, and 365 Days histrion Simone Sussina.
And successful 2017, she took a leap into marriage, tying the knot with Brazilian businessman Thiago Magalhães successful a backstage ceremonial successful the Amazon rainforest. But things lone lasted for a twelvemonth earlier they split.
Most recently, Anitta’s been linked with Sheffield United and erstwhile Flamengo subordinate Vinicius Souza, with the brace precocious seen unneurotic astatine Paris Fashion Week, arsenic reported by Billboard.
But portion helium whitethorn beryllium her fellow for now, she’s blessed to admit that exclusivity successful relationships isn’t precisely thing she craves - and she’s been successful plentifulness of unfastened relationships before.
“I person 15 cardinal boyfriends, whatever,” she told Nylon.
“If the feline makes maine consciousness respected and incredible, I don't attraction if helium sleeps with different woman. I've had boyfriends who ne'er cheated connected me, but they treated maine similar trash."
I stopped caring astir each of the things that I utilized to attraction about, similar grounds sales, oregon the fig of radical talking astir me. Now, I honestly conscionable privation to person a bully time
While she’s ever had a free-wheeling cognition to life, a hospitalisation successful 2022 that near her reasoning she was “going to die” led to further enlightenment.
“I got truly sick and was truthful physically sick I couldn’t work, and I hadn’t stopped moving successful truthful galore years,” she told Today, adding: “It was a large aftermath up call.”
Doctors investigated her unwellness for 5 months to nary evident avail.
It was lone aft travelling to Mount Everest to heal with shamans that things got better.
“After my wellness issues, I started taking amended attraction of my spirituality. I travel Yoruba religion, and I had to leap into that. I dove into myself, and everything that makes maine consciousness peace," she said.
“I stopped caring astir each of the things that I utilized to attraction about, similar grounds sales, oregon the fig of radical talking astir me. I utilized to attraction truthful much. Now, I honestly conscionable privation to person a bully time.”
Bum tattoo scandal
When it comes to activities extracurricular of euphony - and extracurricular of jetting astir the satellite to spot her lovers - Anitta has besides kept herself engaged successful the satellite of business.
In 2019, she became Head of Creativity and Innovation for the Brazilian mentation of the portion Skol, launching Skol Beats - a citrus instrumentality connected the beer, coming successful respective fruity flavours.
And successful 2021, she became a subordinate of the Board of Directors of Nubank, the largest Fintech slope successful Latin America - and adjacent played a important relation successful getting the slope listed connected the Brazilian banal exchange.
While she’s nary alien to dipping her toed into politics, being an outspoken advocator for protecting the situation and LGBT rights, she besides became embroiled successful a governmental ungraded for a precise antithetic reason.
In February 2021, a video went viral showing Anitta getting “I emotion you” tattooed connected her bum.
One twelvemonth later, right-wing Brazilian creator Zé Neto took a swipe astatine the prima - due to the fact that of a governmental statement implicit authorities subsidies for the arts, known arsenic the Rouanet law.
And I was reasoning that each I was doing was an intimate tattoo
“We are artists who bash not beryllium connected the Rouanet Law,” helium said to the crowd.
“Our interest is funded by the people. We don't request to enactment a tattoo connected our butt to amusement that we are doing well.”
Anitta’s hordes of fans turned against him - and it was exposed that Zé Neto himself had relied connected nationalist wealth to money his shows.
Eventually, the spiralling ungraded led to authorities nationalist prosecutors investigating backing irregularities successful 29 municipalities crossed the country.
“And I was reasoning that each I was doing was an intimate tattoo,” the prima aboriginal posted connected X.