Zendaya got her start six years ago, when she was a precocious 14-year-old on the Disney Channel. And like many young stars around that time (Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and Miley Cyrus among them), she tried her hand at vlogging for a hot second. The 20-year-old recently revisited the form in a video for her app.
Zendaya sat down with a friend to watch her first YouTube videos, and when she wasn't dying of embarrassment, she was giving snarky commentary of her "fake" Disney kid self with some very adult language. Seriously, you will lose count at the number of expletives (they're all bleeped out, but you can fill in the blanks):
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The girl in the video, Zendaya clarified at the beginning, wasn't really her as much as it was what she thought people wanted to see: an extension of her cheerful Shake It Up character Rocky. "That was like my thing, 'happy smiley faces'," she said of her one signature line. "I remember this. Like dude, I remember making these videos. Like, I seriously thought I was like, a f*cking mogul, because I was like, 'Yo, this shit is so smart. I'm about to create this whole brand of like, positive smiling shit. Disney's going to love this.'" You know, she wasn't entirely wrong.
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she's not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.
