Hennessy Carolina is not only the singer of Bodak Yellow, the younger sister of Cardi B, but also the winner of the 2018 Grammy, where she amazed on the red carpet with her eclectic fashion style, wearing a white sequined dress with cape. She is a social media and television personality and an aspiring fashion designer.
In fact, she has been in the celebrity scene as long as her sister. Hennessy Carolina has appeared regularly alongside the rapper in the reality TV series Love & Hip Hop: New York and has also performed with her rapper sister on several red carpets. She also maintained her shine in the third season of MTV’s The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars. From her age, her fortune to her girlfriend, we’ve covered you well. Read on.
Who Is Hennessy Carolina? Age
Hennessy Carolina Almánzar was born on December 22, 1995, in the Bronx, New York City, USA. She is of mixed nationality with a father of Dominican descent and a mother from Trinidad. Carolina Almánzar grew up with her older sister Cardi B in Highbridge, a district with a Latin American majority population in the South Bronx of New York City.
She was named after her father’s favorite drink after he showed up drunk at her birth. The unusual name in turn inspired her sister to give her the nickname Bacardi, which eventually became her professional name Cardi B. The 5’1? beauty has been fascinated by the arts since childhood and attended art and drama schools to develop her talent. She was also discovered by her teachers for camera and television, who gave a nod to her artistic skills and fashion styles (even as a child in elementary school she wore heels in school). She also cherished the dream of becoming a fashion designer as she grew up.
Hennessy attended Renaissance High School for Musical Theater & Technology, a small vocational high school on the campus of Herbert H. Lehman High School. She is known for her style, which emphasizes her delicate frame, moving effortlessly and faster than you might think from tomboy chic to red carpet. Whether she mixes and matches high-waisted pants, boots with heels, and vintage berets, she always cuts an it-fashion girl look.
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Her sister may be firmly rooted in the rap scene, but Hennessy is set to pave the way for the fashion industry. There are plans to create her own fashion line, to be launched in 2019. She is also pursuing a career as a stylist and designer at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The aspiring fashion woman has also set her sights high. She imagines that she would dress any celebrity on the red carpet.
Although she made her television debut when she appeared in VH1’s Love & Hip Hop, making her teacher’s prediction about her come true, she defeated the nervousness she felt after that time and returned to the big screen. Hennessy Carolina competed in the third season of the game show “The Challenge”: Champs vs. In the show, competitors compete against each other, taking on sporting challenges to raise money for the charity of their choice, which led Carolina to sign up for The Challenge. The cast includes Drake Bell, Selita Ebanks, Louise Hazel, and Arian Foster, among others. She chose BronxWorks as her charity to pay homage to her hometown. She spent only three episodes on the show.
The pretty lady probably gave her budding career as a fashion designer priority over TV opportunities. In addition, she is building an empire on Instagram with a fan base of 3.7 million people, which will benefit her growing popularity.
Girlfriend
She came out as bisexual in 2017. Although it is known that she has dated several men in the past, the question of who her new love interest is remained unanswered for some time. Finally, her identity was revealed. Hennessy Carolina meets with Michelle Diaz, whom she has met on Instagram since 2017. She fainted from her nice outfit and bone structure, reaching out to her. Although she implied that she had always imagined her future with a man, she couldn’t be happier in a same-sex relationship. Her sister also praised her sister’s openness to her orientation on Twitter.
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While she and her friend seem to be floating on cloud nine, it was not easy for her to get her family, especially her mother, on her side. Given that her mother is from the Caribbean, where people are predominantly homophobic, it was a hard nut to crack to get her to accept her new status. Later, she taught her family that she does not necessarily have to do things because others or even society expects her to. Eventually, they learned to accept her and her version of how life works. In return, she feels free and spreads her message: Love is love, regardless of gender, as far as she can.
Net Worth
Hennessy is firmly anchored in the celebrity scene and as such receives the dividends that go with status. In addition to fame, she can also boast of a healthy bank account that is constantly growing. Her net worth is estimated at 250,000 dollars.