Aubrey O’Day is an American singer-songwriter, fashion designer, model and reality television personality. She rose to fame on MTV’s Making The Band, in which O’Day competed to become a member of Sean “P Diddy” Combs’ next project, an all-female pop band in the vein of the Spice Girls. Since the group’s disbandment, she has gone on to release her own album and appeared on numerous reality television shows. She has had a varied career and has accumulated much wealth due to her various appearances and projects, but just how much money has she been able to earn? Let’s dive in.
Aubrey O’Day Net Worth As Of 2018: $4 Million
Throughout her career, O’Day has earned around $4 million due to her music, her modeling, her fashion designs and her reality TV appearances. Let’s take a look at O’Day’s career and how she obtained this wealth.
Early Years
O’Day was born in San Francisco, California on February 11th, 1984. She has stated that she “lived on the stage, and even at six, slept behind the seats at the theatre.” She appeared in a variety of different musical productions, playing the lead in plays like Annie, Fame, Grease, and The Wizard of Oz.
She went on to attend the University of California at Irvine, where she graduated with a degree in political science.
2004-2008
O’Day would go on to appear in Making the Band 3, where she emerged as the show’s breakout star. As she competed on the show, she would also embark on a modeling career appearing in Blender magazine and other publications. She would go on to secure a spot in the band, now known as Danity Kane.
Their self-titled first album, Danity Kane, was released in 2006 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. They went on to open for Christina Aguilera on her Back to Basics Tour, along with fellow girl group The Pussycat Dolls.
As Making The Band continued, tensions between O’Day and Combs began to rise as her career began to broaden outside of music. Combs accused her of using her “oversexed” image as a means to increase her fame, even going so far as to call her “the worst dancer in the group.” These tensions eventually would go on to boil over, leading to Combs dismissing O’Day from the group.
2008-2012
Following her dismissal from Danity Kane, O’Day embarked on a single career. She would appear in the Broadway production of Hairspray as well as the comedy American High School. She would be featured on different singer’s tracks including Donnie Wahlberg’s “I Got It.”
She starred in her own reality show All About Aubrey in 2011 on the Oxygen Network. The show only ran for six episodes. Her debut single “Automatic” was released in 2011 and served as the intro music for All About Aubrey.
2012-Present
In 2012, O’Day appeared on Donald Trump’s The Celebrity Apprentice 5. She was deemed the “villain” of that season, earning the ire of celebrities like Arsenio Hall and Clay Aiken. Her repeated misconduct on the show nearly led to her getting fired early, she went on to finish in third place.
Also in 2012, O’Day released another single titled “Wrecking Ball.” She went to release her debut EP Between Two Evils in 2013, it rose to #5 on the iTunes charts. Danity Kane also reunited in 2013, but it did not last long as O’Day would feud with bandmate Dawn Richard, and the band broke up again.
However, she would form the duo Dumblonde with Danity Kane bandmate Shannon Bex, and they released the self-titled album in 2015. Since then, she’s appeared on Celebrity Big Brother among other projects.