D'Amelio: "You just have to be authentic. You can’t fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy." 

D'Amelio: "I’ve definitely gotten more confident about showing my natural skin – even during breakouts. I’ve actually learned that a lot of people don’t love their freckles, but I’ve learned to love mine."

D'Amelio: “I’m definitely a lot more quiet than people expect.”

D'Amelio: "Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way."

D'Amelio: "The fact that we’re still letting society tell us what you have to look like to be considered perfect is outrageous to me."

D'Amelio: "So many people can see my content and see that I dance and maybe it’ll draw them to my Instagram where I have longer clips of me and dance classes or improv."

D'Amelio: "I feel like no one really gets to see, but, people are always talking about how they think our family dynamic is pretty cool."

D'Amelio: “Everyone else my age is figuring out: What’s my major going to be? Where am I going to go to college? I’m also figuring out, well, what do I want to do for my life? What makes me happy? What makes me feel like I can make a career out of this? I can make a job out of this and be continuously happy for the rest of my life. We’re all kind of thinking the same things just in different ways.”

D'Amelio: "I know all my years of training aren't helping with TikTok dancing, but I know that TikTok dancing is fun."

D'Amelio: "I once saw a TikTok beauty hack about taking a hot bowl of water and using it to steam your face. I tried it, and it feels so good."

D'Amelio: "It's extremely difficult to want to continue doing something that people say how much they hate, it's hard. It doesn't feel like it used to, where there was collaborations and fun and everyone was friends."

[On getting hate on social media]

D'Amelio: "It's extremely difficult to continue posting on a platform where the people that are watching your videos don't actually want to see you, and a lot of the feedback is negative. It's very hard to do that."

D'Amelio: "I’m trying to show people that I’m a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I’m trying to make the best of it."

D'Amelio: "I’ve just been taking care of my skin even more since I have the extra time at home, which makes it really easy to commit to my routine. I’ve also been trying new things, including makeup for days I want to do a little more."

D'Amelio: "I get self-conscious and I get insecure, as everybody else does, but I try not to show that."

D'Amelio: “But it was also just weird to see, like, Oh, that’s me. Like, how did this even happen? Like, thinking back to a year ago, no one even knew my name.”

D'Amelio: "I think I’m working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt."