Trisha Kay Paytas (; born May 8, 1988) is an American Internet personality, actress, singer, and songwriter. After moving from Illinois to Los Angeles to pursue acting, she began stripping and doing work as an extra. She has made over 45 television appearances, including on My Strange Addiction, Dr. Phil, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and America's Got Talent. She has also appeared in music videos by artists such as Eminem and Amy Winehouse.
In 2006, Paytas began her YouTube channel "blndsundoll4mj". She would later start a second channel for vlogs in 2014. On YouTube, Paytas has garnered a following for her varied videos, which range from comedic skits to eating challenges, as well as frank discussion of her personal life. In 2015, she started pursuing a career in music and has released seven EPs.
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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.
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Career
2006-12: Career beginnings
After moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, she began doing professional lingerie modeling and worked as a stripper and an escort to support herself. 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.
From 2008 through 2010, Paytas appeared on television 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. In an interview with Perez Hilton, she commented on her career aspirations, saying:
I have a lot of insecurities. I just want people to know me and to love me, because I have no love. I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me. So I would try everything, but nothing really worked. But, honestly, YouTube was a godsend. I could literally be myself, and people loved it.
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. She also began posting mukbang sessions and eating-challenge videos. 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. She also appeared in its sequel, Viral Video 2, in 2015.
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 video for "Fat Chicks" was featured on websites such as Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, and Business Insider. Van Halen member David Lee Roth provided the introduction to the accompanying music video for Paytas' cover of "Hot for Teacher".
She released the EP "Superficial Bitch" on June 29, 2015. Its music video was released on July 23. A second music video from the EP titled "Leonardo DiCaprio" was released on August 7. The following year, in June 2016, Paytas released her fourth EP, Daddy Issues. It was her first EP to appear on the Billboard charts, debuting at number 25 on the Heatseekers Albums 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. Paytas voluntarily left the show on August 11, 2017, after 11 days.
Personal life
Paytas describes herself as a devout Roman Catholic and has stated that her faith has helped her in her personal struggles.
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
Non-album singles
Music videos
As performer
Guest appearances
Songs
All recorded by Paytas except collaborations where noted
Filmography
Bibliography
- The History of My Insanity (2013)
- The Stripper Diaries (2013)
- Tease (2014)
- Curvy and Loving it (2014)
- Trisha's 31 Nights of Fright (2014) (with Jeff Rendell)
- How To Get Internet Famous (2015)
Fragrances
- Trish by Trisha Paytas
Notes
References
External links
- Trisha Paytas on IMDb
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