Brooklyn Nikole is an American model, beauty entrepreneur and creative best known initially as the younger sister of rapper Latto. Raised in Clayton County, Georgia, she has gradually built a public identity of her own through modeling, the launch of her Beauty by Brooklyn cosmetics venture and, most notably, directing Latto’s 2025 music video for “Somebody.”
Brooklyn was born on July 19, 2002, according to the strongest available age evidence, making her 24 years old as of August 12, 2026. The date is supported by coverage of her 21st-birthday celebration on July 19, 2023, along with contemporary reporting that she had just turned 21. Her exact birth date has not been verified through an inspected civil record, but the available evidence consistently points to July 19, 2002.
Although much of the attention around Brooklyn still comes from her relationship with Latto, her public record now extends beyond that family connection. Modeling work dates back to at least 2021, her beauty company launched in 2023, and her move behind the camera in 2025 gave her a substantial creative credit separate from appearing alongside her famous sister.
Growing up in Clayton County
Brooklyn Nikole and Latto were raised in Clayton County, Georgia, by their parents, Misti Pitts and Shayne Stephens. Brooklyn is the younger of the two sisters.
Her childhood was not solely centered on entertainment. People has reported that she played sports while growing up, including volleyball. That background contrasts with the celebrity environment that later surrounded the family as Latto’s music career expanded.
Brooklyn has also presented herself publicly as more reserved than her sister. During an April 2023 appearance with Latto on 777 Radio, she discussed being comparatively introverted and not initially wanting the same kind of public attention that accompanied Latto’s career.
That distinction helps explain the trajectory of Brooklyn’s own profile. Rather than immediately attempting to duplicate her sister’s music career, she developed interests in fashion, beauty and other creative work.
Reliable sources have also documented her attending college. A later 2025 profile reported that she had earned a degree in English, but that detail has not been independently corroborated through a university record or other primary source, so it should not be treated as firmly established.
Building a career in modeling and beauty
Brooklyn was publicly identified as a model by BET as early as 2021. While her visibility was naturally helped by appearances alongside Latto, modeling became one of the first occupations consistently associated with her own name.
Her move into entrepreneurship followed in February 2023 with the launch of Beauty by Brooklyn. The business initially focused on lip products, giving Brooklyn a commercial project separate from her sister’s music career.
The venture also reflected a broader pattern in her professional development: fashion and beauty were becoming more than subjects associated with her public image. They were areas in which she was beginning to create work under her own name.
The current status of Beauty by Brooklyn is less clear. By July 2024, People reported that the products were unavailable and that the brand was indicating it would return. There is not enough reliable evidence to say that the original beauty business is actively selling products in 2026.
That distinction matters because older profiles can make a launched business sound permanently active even when its status changes. What can be stated confidently is that Brooklyn founded and launched Beauty by Brooklyn in 2023; its present commercial operations are not publicly established.
Directing Latto’s “Somebody” marked a creative step forward
Brooklyn’s most significant documented creative credit came in 2025, when she directed the music video for Latto’s single “Somebody.”
Released in May 2025 and filmed in Jamaica, the video lists Brooklyn Nikole as its director. The credit was reported independently by entertainment publications including Uproxx and Complex and is also reflected in the official video release.
The project was notable because it placed Brooklyn behind the camera rather than simply featuring her as Latto’s sister, a model or a personality at industry events. Directing a commercial music video gave her a defined creative role with an identifiable finished work attached to her name.
It also broadened the picture of what Brooklyn’s career could encompass. Her earlier public work had centered mainly on modeling and beauty entrepreneurship; “Somebody” added visual direction to that record.
There are online databases that associate her with additional music-video work, but those credits have not all been corroborated by sufficiently strong independent or primary sources. “Somebody” remains the clearest verified directing milestone.
A move onto the New York Fashion Week runway
Fashion remained another visible part of Brooklyn’s career in 2025.
She walked for Kim Shui’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection during the September 2025 fashion season. Later reporting described the appearance as her first New York Fashion Week runway.
That milestone provided a more concrete modeling achievement than simply being described as a model in celebrity or fashion coverage. It placed her within a major fashion-week presentation and showed that modeling continued to be part of her professional life several years after BET had first identified her in that role.
The scale of the achievement should remain in proportion. One documented runway appearance does not by itself establish an extensive international modeling résumé, and reliable current information about her agency representation remains limited. Still, the Kim Shui show stands as one of the clearest publicly documented developments in her fashion career.
Her relationship with Latto remains part of her public story
Brooklyn’s relationship with Latto is inseparable from the reason many people first recognize her, but it does not have to define the entirety of her profile.
The sisters have appeared publicly together over the years, and their joint 777 Radio conversation gave audiences a clearer sense of their different personalities. Latto built her career in music and developed a highly visible public persona, while Brooklyn described herself as more private.
At the same time, Latto has played a visible role in supporting her younger sister’s ventures. Brooklyn’s Beauty by Brooklyn launch received attention partly because of that family support, and Brooklyn later directed Latto’s “Somebody” video.
That creative collaboration is more informative than treating their relationship simply as a celebrity-family connection. By 2025, Brooklyn was not only accompanying her sister publicly; she was contributing professionally to one of Latto’s releases.
Brooklyn Nikole’s public profile in 2026
As of 2026, Brooklyn remains publicly active in fashion and entertainment circles. She attended Latto’s Paper Magazine cover celebration in Atlanta in March 2026, one of several appearances showing that she continues to have a presence around major entertainment and fashion events.
There are also indications that she may be developing further business projects. Public trademark records show Brooklyn Nikole Creative LLC involved in a 2026 proceeding concerning the name KOZ KOZ.
That record is significant enough to show current business activity connected to Brooklyn’s name, but it should not be taken further than the evidence allows. A trademark proceeding does not by itself prove that KOZ KOZ has launched as an operating consumer brand, what it will ultimately sell, or how central it will become to her career.
For now, her most firmly established professional record remains a combination of modeling, the Beauty by Brooklyn launch and her directing work.
What is not reliably known about Brooklyn Nikole
Brooklyn’s growing visibility has produced the usual collection of online biography claims, but several frequently repeated details are not supported well enough to publish as established facts.
One important point concerns her name. Strong sources consistently identify Latto’s sister as Brooklyn Nikole. She should not be confused with Brooklyn Nicole Frost, a separate social-media personality. The overlap in first and middle names appears to have contributed to inaccurate biography pages combining details from the two women.
Similarly, no sufficiently authoritative source establishes a full legal surname for Brooklyn Nikole.
Claims about her exact height, personal net worth and current modeling agency also lack reliable public documentation. Numerical net-worth estimates in particular should not be presented as factual when there are no financial disclosures or other credible records behind them.
Her private relationships have attracted entertainment coverage as well, including public appearances with NFL player Sauce Gardner. Those appearances establish that they have been seen together publicly, but they do not justify presenting a definitive private relationship status without clearer confirmation from the people involved.
The distinction is especially relevant for Brooklyn because her actual documented work now provides enough material for a profile without relying on dating speculation.
Final thoughts
Brooklyn Nikole first became recognizable to a broad audience as Latto’s younger sister, but her public record has become more substantial than that description alone suggests.
By 24, she had documented experience as a model, had launched her own beauty venture, walked a Kim Shui runway and received a major directing credit for Latto’s “Somebody” music video. Those milestones show a career developing across fashion, entrepreneurship and visual creative work rather than around a single celebrity-family connection.
Her next professional direction is not yet fully clear, and several personal details circulated online remain poorly sourced. What is established, however, is that Brooklyn Nikole has increasingly moved from being known primarily through her sister to accumulating identifiable work under her own name.
