Dottie Rhodes

Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Rhodes (born February 26, 1995) is an American television personality and model, best known for starring in the x|MTV reality show Made in Manhattan.

Early life
Rhodes was born in x|Harrington Park, New Jersey. Her father, Edmund Rhodes, is a real estate developer of x|Anglo-American heritage. Her mother, Daphne Banik, is a real estate agent and former model of x|Slovak, x|Czech, x|Irish, x|Scottish, x|English, and x|Polish descent.

Rhodes grew up in an affluent family and has one younger sister: Diana. She attended private schooling her whole life, graduating from high school in 2013. After her graduation, she moved to x|New York City to attend x|New York University. While a college student, Rhodes studied fashion history and design at the x|Gallatin School of Individualized Study within NYU. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2017.

Career
Rhodes began her career as a model at age age of fourteen, after being discovered by a modeling scout while in New York City with her family. She signed to an agency and began working as a print model. She transitioned to runway modeling at age seventeen, after walking in x|New York Fashion Week. She later walked in fashion weeks in x|Los Angeles, x|London, x|Berlin, x|Tokyo, and x|Milan, and has continued her print modeling work with photoshoots in various fashion magazines.

In 2017, she began a career as a television personality after being cast on the x|MTV reality show Made in Manhattan.

Personal life
Rhodes resides in the x|Greenwich Village neighborhood of x|Manhattan along with her best friend and Made in Manhattan cast mate Kennedy Mitchell. The two met while students at New York University.