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Katy Baker is 19 years old and has a part time job at Daniels, working for the Lipsy concession. Only earning up to £6,000 a year, so she is very reliant on her parents. She comes from a very wealthy family with two siblings, a sister and a brother (17 and 24). Her father is a doctor and mother is a lawyer, although being wealthy her parents are keen on her being independent and earning her own money, to a certain extent. She doesn’t have to pay for her phone bill, rent, travel or food. All her earning goes toward weekends, holidays and fashion.
Katy is a creative individual who was educated at a private school in Ascot called LVS, near to where she lives in Windsor. She stayed on at her private school and did A-levels, studying psychology, English and Art. Leading onto further education at University of Arts London doing a communication degree, where she is now in her first year. Katy didn’t want to go into halls as she has a good home life and social group of friends where she lives.
Katy lives in a large house with her parents and siblings in Windsor. On Acorn, her family is in the category of “affluent achievers”, having a luxury lifestyle and being able to go on nice holidays. Katy herself is in the early majority and is a young person who has money to spend on things they want.
Katy has an active social life doing things she enjoys. On her day’s off from work and university she is out with friends, boyfriend or doing things that make her happy. Her hobbies include gym, skiing, piano, ice skating and horse riding. In her free time, she enjoys shopping, travelling, parties, dinner dates and going clubbing. She has travelled to various places on family holidays, such as Dubai and Miami, as well as European ones such as Italy, France and Cyprus. Katy has her first girls holiday coming up in Ibiza and is always looking at outfits online. In the summer, she likes to volunteer at charity catwalks and art galleries. During the summer season, she also likes to go to festivals such as V-fest, Elrow and Love Box with friends.
Katy is very social media led, having Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and 21 Buttons. Her most used account is Instagram, having a fairly large following of 10,000 followers, she does un-paid promotional posts for small boutiques. Her favourite bloggers being Ellie and Daisy O’Donnell and Rachel Alice Johnson. On Facebook and Snapchat, she uses just for family and friends, to keep them updated on what she is doing. She isn’t very active on Twitter but loves to go through her feed and see what her favourite celebrities are up to such as Cara Delevingne and Zac Efron.
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