Meet Sommer Ray, An Instagram Model With Over 26 Million Followers

Sommer Ray is an American model and social media star known for her fitness activity, sensual photoshoots, and healthy lifestyle. The Denver, Colorado native comes from a family of parents who were bodybuilders. As a result, she started her fitness journey at a young age and also took up modeling which she has enjoyed success in.

Keying into the social media trend, she began uploading videos of her workout session and flaunting her hot bod on her page. This attracted a lot of fans and followers, and she eventually grew into the famous bodybuilder and model that she is today.

Biography and Quick Profile of Sommer Ray

  • Full Name: Sommer Ray
  • Date of Birth: 15th September 1996
  • Age: 27 years old
  • Place of Birth: Larkspur, Colorado, United States of America
  • Nationality: American
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Education: Colorado University, United States
  • Current Occupation: Fitness Model, Social Media Influencer
  • Parents: Mr. Ray (father), Shannon Ray (mother)
  • Siblings: Savana Ray, Skylyn Ray, and Bronson Ray
  • Marital Status: Single
  • Height: 5 feet 6 inches
  • Body Measurements: 32-24-38
  • Bra Size: 32B
  • Weight: 55 kg
  • Dress Size: US size 8

Sommer Ray’s Parents Influenced Her Modelling Career

Sommer Ray is an American girl from Colorado who has grown to become everything from a social media personality, to a model, and of course a fitness enthusiast. She celebrates her birthday on 15th September 1996 and is currently 27 years old. She was exposed to the life of physical fitness very early in life. Sommer’s father was a competitive bodybuilder which played a role in inspiring her to begin her career in the same field and work hard towards excelling at it.

Although she is not a bookworm, the model did not completely neglect her studies. She finished at Local Denver School, Colorado, and went on to obtain a college degree at Colorado University, United States of America. Her course of study is not known as she almost posts about nothing else on her page aside from her workout sessions and modeling photos.

Sommer’s mother Shannon Ray makes regular appearances in some of her videos. In her early days, she used to be a beauty writer, and, like her husband, had a brief stint as a competitive bodybuilder. Sommer and her mother seem to share a special kind of bond not noticed with Shannon and her other kids. Not that she does not love them all, she definitely does based on her social media posts. However, she has a special attachment to Sommer, probably because she is the only child that took after her bodybuilding and modeling career.

The celebrity mother is a fitness model, so much so that she is in her late fifties, but she still looks as though she is about forty years old. Her body is very firm and well built. It is obvious she puts in a lot of work to stay so fit and stunning for her age.

Her Father is Now Late

Shannon and her late husband did well in raising their daughter to take after them as she has turned out to become an even more popular model than her mother. Sadly, he did not leave long enough to see her grow into the supermodel she is now as he passed away a few years ago. After her husband’s death, Shannon did not marry another man until recently. After staying by herself for many years, Shannon found love again. She got married to a man she describes as her best friend on the 28th of August 2021.

Sommer’s elder sister, Savannah Ray, is also a budding social media personality in her own right. Unlike her sister, she has chosen a path in photography and centers most of her social media content around her job as a photographer. She has a special liking for pictures taken in forest areas.

Skylyn and Bronson are twins and celebrate their birthday every nineteenth of February. Skylyn has a thing for wildlife and takes her time to rescue and protect endangered animals. She also has two dogs and a horse that she is very fond of. In June of 2021, she got engaged to her fiancé who also seems to love animals just like her. Her twin brother Bronson seems to be the only family member without an active social media life. Unlike his sisters and mother, Bronson is not popular on any social media platform.

Sommer Ray Started Her Career At An Early Age

At age fifteen, after her family relocated to Lone Tree, Colorado, Sommer Ray started her fitness journey with her dad as her coach. She set up a gym in their basement and did weight-lifting alongside other workouts, bodybuilding, and fitness training.

A year later, she was already built like a bikini athlete and she started counting her wins.
She won her first two trophies in 2015 at the NPC Colorado State Championship, in the ‘Bikini Class D’ and ‘Bikini Teen’ categories. Later that same year, she secured the sixteenth spot at the NPC USA Championship.

In the year 2013, Sommer Ray, like many youngsters her age, began exploring what was then the relatively new social media platform Instagram. She started posting pictures of herself in the gym during workout sessions. As time went on, her beauty and perfectly contoured body began to garner attention on the social media platform, especially from the male folk and eventually even ladies who wanted their bodies to be well curved like hers.

The pictures became more frequent, sexier, raunchy, and more daring. With all these, it was only a matter of time before brands and modeling agencies began to circle around Sommer with endorsement deals. Obviously, she signed with some of these brands and as pictures of her perfect butt began gaining more prominence, Sommer also ventured into bikini modeling.

Aside from modeling and endorsing other people’s brands, the bodybuilder also has her clothing brand and other products which she sells on her E-store – somerraysshop.com. Similarly, she featured in a television show titled “Wild ‘N Out” in 2017.

Sommer Ray’s Social Media Activities

The model and fitness enthusiast is very active on nearly all social media platforms as her career requires. Nearly all of her social media activities are centered around fitness, modeling, and bodybuilding. She is also a family person, and celebrates members of her family often, especially her mum by making videos or taking pictures with them and sharing them on her page.

When she decided to start her bikini modeling career on Instagram, Sommer had to start focusing her workout routines on her lower body to give her an even more perfect shape for the brand. She continued to grow on the platform, and when she had gathered up to fifteen million followers, she celebrated her milestone with a twerk video. Currently, she has over twenty-six million Instagram followers, and she is still growing.

Sommer also has a verified Facebook account with 669k followers. On Twitter, she has a huge 1.2 million followers. She is not left out on YouTube as she has a channel with 1.86 million subscribers and 83 videos. Also, she is active on Tiktok and has a large following just like with her other social media accounts.

The Star Has Had Her Fair Share of Controversies

Being a social media personality makes one prone to controversies. And as a bikini athlete and model, she has tasted a good dose of it. Despite having a lot of fans and followers because of the content she posts on her page, she has equally been criticized for the same content.

Some people who do not like the way Sommer exposes her body in most of her pictures have accused her of doing so to get attention and make easy money. In response to that, she made a video where she stated that she is not ashamed of what she does, after all, she pays her bills herself.

Again, she was faced with another scandal when the video editor for her YouTube channel, Soloin, complained in a video that she had refused to pay him. Thankfully, the matter did not escalate and was later resolved.

Sommer Ray Has An Estimated Net Worth of $8 Million

Sommer Ray as one of Instagram’s fit models sits at the top of the money list with an estimated net worth of about $8 million. Though it has been a hot topic of debate about how much social media personalities make and what sources earn them the most money, Sommer is believed to be making as much as $26,275 per post on Instagram.

On average, a single post she makes attracts no less than 500,000 likes on a regular basis, and going by this, it can be estimated that she makes a decent $5.2 million annually from her social media activities on Instagram alone centered around modeling and fitness. If her other social media profiles are taken into consideration, it is obvious that Sommer Ray’s estimated income and net worth could be a bit higher.

List Of All Of Sommer Ray’s Boyfriends

It is not surprising to see that there is a lot of interest in who is dating Sommer as well as who she is hanging out with. As you may expect, she has had quite an interesting dating experience with a number of guys.

1. Rice Gum

Rumors were rife that Sommer was dating another YouTube celebrity and game freak Rice Gum. The pair were usually seen together in many of Sommer’s social media videos, especially on her Instagram handle. Rice Gum is a famous Vietnamese YouTuber who was originally named Bryan Le. As one of the best in what he does on YouTube, Rice has an impressive online fan following as more than 6.7 million subscribers are on his YouTube channel. It appears that their relationship was either a façade, and a way to get attention as most people alleged, or it honestly did not last.

2. Max Ehrich

After Rice Gum came Max. Sources close to Sommer revealed that she was dating the celebrated American actor and singer for some time. As a couple, they made their first official public couple appearance at the premiere of Happy Death Day which was held at the Universal Studios Hollywood in October 2017. Regarding how they met, it is believed that the couple met through an actress who is also a mutual friend named Bella Thorne. Ehrich had just gotten out of his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Disney Channel star, Veronica Dunne, in July 2017.

Their relationship which just started after the summer of 2017 had Sommer completely swept off her feet. They did not only spend a lot of time together; they were also almost always gearing up to work together. While they were together, Sommer starred in Ehrich’s music video for his song “Can’t Forget Her Now”. Sadly, the bond between the two lovebirds could not stand the test of time and they both went their separate ways.

Bennett Sipes

In 2018, the social media star dated Bennett Sipes, a “Love Island” contestant, but their relationship did not last either. Spies was the person who revealed details about their relationship and how in love they were, but that love faded away somehow.

MGK

Sommer Ray and MGK
Sommer Ray and MGK

Another guy on her list is Machine Gun Kelly. This time, the relationship ended because MGK cheated on her with Megan Fox. She admitted she did not think there was anything going on with them because she thought Megan was married. Hence, their everyday texting never drew her attention. Also, both of them were filming “Midnight in the Switchgrass” in Puerto Rico, so, there was no way she could have known.

Taylor Holder

There was also Taylor Holder, but they did not last either as they broke up in the same 2020 that they started dating. Taylor announced their breakup in a tweet in which he introduced himself as being newly single. Later, Ray revealed that Taylor was trying to get back with her, but he was in a relationship at the time.

Faze Jarvis

Shortly after her breakup with Taylor, in the same year 2021, Sommer moved on to another relationship with Faze Jarvis, but they broke up as well. However, they both maintain a cordial relationship and Sommer sometimes features in Jarvis’ videos. In one of such videos, he put her up against his new girlfriend to figure out who knew him better. It turned out that Sommer won the contest.

Cole Bennett

Recently, it was reported that Sommer Ray might have found herself a new beau in the person of Cole Bennett. This assumption is coming after she made a story post on Instagram suggesting that the two are having a good time together. However, there has not been anything else to lay credence to the possibility of the duo dating.

Other Fun Facts About Sommer Ray

  • The model has two dogs named Rarri and Mazi.
  • She admits that she loves eating pizzas.
  • At a younger age, Sommer wanted to be a hairdresser and a bodybuilder.
  • Her favorite actor and actress are Robert Downey Jr. and Bella Thorne respectively.
  • Sommer values family a lot. She loves to spend time with them. Travel, gym, go. horseback riding, or whatever they can do to have fun.
  • Her favorite travel destinations are Dubai, Bali, Paris, and London.
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