Aubrey O'Day

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Summary

Aubrey O’Day is a singer, actor, and reality television personality who rose to prominence with Danity Kane and later appeared in stage productions and reality shows. Her public profile has centered on pop performance, celebrity, and candid accounts of women’s treatment in the music industry. In 2008, she publicly opposed California’s Proposition 8 and said everyone deserves equal rights; she later recorded an It Gets Better video, participated in the NOH8 campaign, and described founding an AIDS charity. In interviews, she has also criticized sexism in the music industry and called for women to support one another and hold more positions of power.