With 36.8 million followers on TikTok, and another 11.5 million on Instagram, influencer Baby Ariel clearly has a lot of peoples’ attention. Her social media is a combination of lip syncs, selfies, lifestyle content and announcements about her career. In addition to influencing, she’s an actress and singer-songwriter. And she’s extremely proud of her Jewish heritage.
Here are 18 things know about her.
1. Ariel Rebecca Martin, aka Baby Ariel, was born on Nov. 22, 2000 in Florida.
2. She’s a Sagittarius.
3. Please enjoy this extremely adorable photo of literal baby Ariel on Shabbat:
4. And you should definitely take a gander at these, too:
5. Her father is Panamanian, while her mother is Cuban-Israeli.
6. She has a younger brother named Jacob.
7. Ariel began her career in 2015 when she downloaded the app musical.ly (now TikTok) out of boredom and quickly gained popularity for lip syncing to songs. More recent example here:
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8. She wasn’t looking to get famous via social media, however.
“When I first started musical.ly, it wasn’t with the intention of getting big or famous — I was just making fun videos to share with my friends,” she told GRAZIA USA. But when it blew up, we realized as a family that it was an opportunity to open doors to the things that I really loved like acting and music.”
9. Ariel started recording her own music and released her debut single “Aww” in December 2017.
10. In 2017, Ariel was named one of the 25 most influential people on the internet by TIME Magazine.
11. She won two Teen Choice Awards, both in the Choice Muser Category, in 2016 and 2017. (The category was for teens’ favorite musical.ly creator.)
12. Her debut EP “blue” came out in 2021. She wrote it and recorded completely during COVID isolation.
13. She has been in numerous Disney Channel and Nickelodeon productions, including “Bizardvaark,” “Henry Danger,” “Disney Fam Jam,” “Zombies 2” and “Zombies 3.” In the latter two movies, she starred alongside fellow Jewish actor and influencer Milo Manheim. If you’re curious as to why Ariel wasn’t in “Zombies 4,” we’ll let her explain (and if you get it, you get it):
@babyariel why i wasn’t in zombies 4 ♥️
14. If you’re looking to try out social media influencing, here’s Ariel’s advice: “Create content that is authentic — that is your truth. And have fun with it. Be creative and challenge yourself.”
15. Ariel is dating model Milo Murphy.
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16. She frequently posts online about her love of Israel, as well as her support of the Israeli hostages.
“most of all, especially now, i promise to stand up for israel with all of me, just like you would have done,” she wrote in an Instagram post commemorating her Safta, who passed away in November 2023.
17. She starred in “Suncoast” in 2024 alongside Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson and Nico Parker. The movie is a coming-of-age story about a young girl in the early 2000s, dealing with family conflict and struggle at the same time that she begins an unconventional friendship. Listen to Ariel share her thoughts on the movie here:
18. She’s slated to star in a sequel to the movie “Spring Breakers” with Bella Thorne.
