Charli ꦗmade her first TikTok dance video from her bedroom in Norwalk in the summer of 2019 — then watched as the 15-second snippet exploded online.
Dixie, a singer, also j🌱umped into the social media pool; she released a song on Spotify, “Be Happy,” that was streamed more than 70 million times and also posted TikTok vid🎶eos.
Now, two years later, both Charli, 17, and Dixie, 20, are social media phenoms — Charli h♕as more than 120 million followers on TikTok and Dixie has 52 million.
They’re both starring in “The D’Amelio Show,” a new eight-episode Hulu reality series premiering 𓄧Sept. 3.
Charli, who spoke ♔to The Post along with her parents and sister, said it has not been an easy transition to TikಌTok fame.
"When you’re going from being in high school... to now having people watch every minuscule mistake you make...I don’t thin🅘k I’m the type of person who has the perfect personality for it.”
— Charli D’Amelio
“When people ask what’s it’s really like🍃, we’re kind of living our normal lives”
— Dixie D’Amelio
Charli lost nearly 1 million followers in November 2020 when she posted a “Dinner With the D’♊Amelios” video to YouTube that showed Dixie gagging on snails prepared by private chef Aaron May and Charli asking for “Dino nuggets” instead.
The D'Amelio Family/Youtube
Dixie lat♔er apologized on TikTok and Charli urged her fans to “just be nice” in an Instagram Live interview.
“I took every hate comment so personally for my kids and would get so upset by it...I don’t like it, and I try not to read [the commenܫts] because it hurts me 𝐆for them."
— Heidi D’Amelio
“I’ve literally got the entire Internet commenting,🃏 and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this person doesn’t like me’ or ‘This person thinks I’m ugly.’ That constant wor🦂ry was something I never had to deal with...”