Meet the three-year-old girl who has taken Instagram by storm, gaining 82,000 followers, endorsement deals and a modelling contract in just TWO WEEKS
Toddler Blythe Green has become an online sensation and now rakes in up to £150 for an hour-long photo shoot
A TODDLER has become an internet sensation, notching up 82,000 Instagram followers, endorsement deals and a modelling contract in just TWO WEEKS.
Blythe Green, from Cambridge, now rakes in up to £150 for an hour-long photo shoot and represents 10 brands online.
A fortnight ago Blythe was just a normal three-year-old – and her mum Gemma, 31, had just 140 Instagram followers on her Instagram page .
But since marketing executive Gemma started uploading photos of her little girl on July 31, her daughter has become an internet star with a whopping 82,000 followers.
Now, just 15 days into her career as an ‘Insta-kid’, brown-eyed Blythe has bagged herself a child modelling contract with Kitsch Agency.
Mum Gemma, who lives with her husband Nick Green, 30, who works in IT, and their five-year-old son Caleb, said her daughter’s success has raised her own Instagram profile.
She explained: “I’ve had Instagram for ages but posting pictures of Blythe gave it a boost I never dreamed of.
“People work for years to build up the career that my daughter’s built in days. She’s an inspiration to other aspiring social media stars.
“She’s a natural and is happiest in front of the lens – I’m not surprised it’s only taken days for thousands to notice her.”
Gemma has made her own clothes as a hobby for three years, posting the results on her Instagram page to her 140 followers.
But when a family photograph was taken in December 2015, the mum says Blythe, then two, “came alive” in front of the camera.
She recalled: “She took to posing for the camera straight away.
“While the rest of the family is a bit camera shy and awkward in front of the camera, Blythe loved it.
“I realised she was a natural.”
From there, the mum told how she started snapping her girl regularly but resisted uploading photos of her daughter online.
At the end of last month, Gemma decided to upload a photo of Blythe to her Instagram account wearing one her designs, using the hashtags #childmodel #newfaces and #kidsfashions.
The photo clocked up a massive 1,155 likes and the page attracted thousands of new followers.
Gemma said: “It was incredible. Like any mum I had always thought my daughter was beautiful but when the likes started clocking up I realised other people thought so too.
“My Instagram page was seeing more action in one day than it ever had!”
With her husband Nick’s blessing, the mum started uploading two photos a day, spending around an hour getting her daughter to pose for pics.
One photo of Blythe wearing a red dress designed by Gemma gained 5,000 likes.
After just two days, with her followers then at 12,000, the mum was contacted by clothing and accessory brands asking if they could send Blythe freebie products to wear in photos in exchange for a plug.
After four days, with an incredible 20,000 followers, local photographers got in touch with the mum.
Gemma started charging between £40 and £150 for a shoot with her little girl.
She said: “It felt like Blythe was becoming a young star in her own right.
“She’s just a normal little girl, not a show-off or a princess at all, so it all felt like a bit of a dream.”
After five days, the family travelled down to London so Blythe could audition to work at Kitsch Agency, where she was offered a year’s contract as a child model and actress.
Gemma said: “The agency are talking about all sorts of amazing opportunities that just two weeks ago we never would have dreamed of.
“We keep pinching ourselves.”
Now, the page has a whopping 86,100 followers
Gemma said her husband Nick is “totally on board” with Blythe’s budding career and the pair of them vet every request “extremely closely”.
She added: “The second Blythe says she doesn’t want to do this anymore we will stop.
“Blythe’s just a normal three-year-old and I want her to have a normal childhood, so we will only encourage her to pose as long as she is having fun doing it.”
The mum also insisted Blythe’s brother Caleb is “not at all jealous” of his sister being in the limelight.
Speaking of her daughter’s incredible overnight success story, Gemma said: “Most people struggle for years or rely on celebrity connections to build up the kind of following Blythe has garnered in just two weeks.
“That’s true star-quality.
“If she’s accomplished this much in two weeks, you can only imagine how far she might go in two years.
“She could hit a million followers before she even starts school!”