Trisha Paytas

1988–05: Early life

Paytas was born in Riverside, California, to Frank and Lenna (née Kant). She is of Hungarian descent. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, after which she relocated with her mother to Illinois. Paytas was raised outside Rockford, Illinois in the city of Freeport.

At fifteen, Paytas relocated to California to live with her father and brother, and enrolled in a Catholic online school program. She returned to Illinois to live with her mother at age sixteen, attending high school in Pecatonica.

2006–12: Career beginnings

After moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, she began doing professional lingerie modeling. She attempted to break the world's fastest talker record on Guinness World Records Unleashed, but was unable to break the record. In 2006, Paytas' made her first television appearance as a correspondent to Greg Behrendt on The Greg Behrendt Show. She appeared on the show for its full thirteen–episode run before it was cancelled after only airing one season. The following year in 2007 she appeared on the second season of Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. Paytas played "Ms. Limelight." She was on the show for four episodes although she was eliminated from the competition portion of the show on the third episode. On January 3, 2007, Paytas started her YouTube channel "blndsundoll4mj". The channel was originally dedicated to movie director Quentin Tarantino, whom Trisha idolized, but soon after being created, Paytas began to focus on other types of videos. Blndsundoll4mJ primarily gives fashion, beauty and relationship advice videos.

In 2008 through 2010, Paytas made many guest appearances on shows including The Price Is Right (2008), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2011), Jane by Design (2011), Huge (2011), and Modern Family (2011), among others. She portrayed Jessica Simpson in the 2009 Eminem video "We Made You." She also appeared as a background dancer for rapper M.I.A. at the Scream Awards in 2010. Later in 2010, she appeared in the videos for "Playing the Part" by Jamey Johnson, "A Girl's Got To Do What A Girl's Got To Do" by Barbwire, and "Tears Dry on Their Own by Amy Winehouse. Paytas made an appearance in a Guns N' Roses' tour video, playing a mobster's girlfriend. Paytas starred in the Les Savy Fav video for their song "Sleepless in Silverlake" and portrayed Marilyn Monroe. In 2012, she played a stripper in The All-American Rejects' music video for "Beekeeper's Daughter". Paytas appeared in 2010 on an episode of My Strange Addiction as a self-admitted tanning addict. Despite being aware of the high chances of developing skin cancer, Paytas insisted on visiting the tanning salon at least daily, and follow up with a spray tan. Later the following year, in 2011, she appeared on an episode of The Millionaire Matchmaker but was not accepted.

During this time, Paytas made a number of "trolling" videos, which she told Business Insider were a way to "dumb myself down" in order to get more attention and views. This involved videos claiming that dogs do not have brains, or that she was voting for the 2012 Republican candidate for President of the United States, Mitt Romney.

2013–present: Breakthrough and music career

On January 18, 2013, she appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil, discussing the phenomenon of slut-shaming, particularly its prominence on social media.

In June 2014, Paytas created a companion' channel, "TrishasLife", later Trisha Paytas, which featured personal vlog videos. In turn, she began posting her more stylized or music-related videos on her main channel, blndsundoll4mJ. As of July 2017, she has over one billion lifetime views for her more than 2,500 uploads.

In 2014, Paytas starred opposite Richard Grieco in Viral Video, a 15-minute horror short film that she co-produced. It premiered online on October 17, 2014.

On November 26, 2014, Paytas released her first single, a cover of Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby". On December 12, Paytas released its music video. The following April 27, she released a music video video for "A Little Less Conversation", directed by Andrew Vallentine, and on May 7, one for her debut EP, "Fat Chicks", also directed by Vallentine. The Huffington Post, and Business Insider. Van Halen's member David Lee Roth provided the introduction to the accompanying music video.

She released the EP "Superficial Bitch" on June 29. Its music video was released on July 23. A second music video from the EP titled "Leonardo DiCaprio" was released on August 7.

In June 2016, Paytas released her fourth EPm Daddy Issues. It reached number 6 on the iTunes pop chart and 11 overall. It was her first EP to make it into the Billboard Charts, where Daddy Issues was ranked #25 on the "Heatseekers Albums: Up and Coming Musicians Chart"

Paytas made an appearance on the June 2016 Brooks Wheelan episode of To Tell the Truth, as an imposter for the creator of the selfie stick.

In September 2016, she released her fifth EP, Showtime. In April 2017, she released her sixth EP, "Chicken Fingers and Lipo". She later became a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother 20.

Personal life

Paytas describes herself as a devout Roman Catholic and has stated that her faith has helped her in her personal struggles.

Musical promotions

In October 2015, Paytas teamed up with mobile game Line Play to create a music video and original song that promotes the app.

Songs

All recorded by Paytas except collaborations where noted

Fragrances