Who is Sumner Stroh? Get to know the model who revealed Adam Levine's alleged affair
Amid trending topics such as National Book Store's conyo name change and the much-awaited Eraserheads reunion concert, it seems that Adam Levine's alleged affair with an Instagram model is the one that has piqued the interest of social media users the most.
After all, the reveal was made in less than a week after Levine's wife of over eight years Behati Prinsloo, who is also a Victoria's Secret model, announced that she is currently pregnant with their third child. And even more than that, Levine wanted to name their baby after the mistress-in-question, Sumner Stroh.
Here's what you need to know about her:
Famous model on Instagram
Stroh is an Instagram and fashion model from Austin, Texas with over 400,000 followers on both her Instagram and TikTok accounts.
As a model, she is famous for posting pictures of herself in sizzling bathing suits and dresses, which may have caught the attention of the Maroon 5 singer in the first place.
In her now viral TikTok video, Stroh exposed some of Levine's messages to her through his verified Instagram account. The singer told her how it was "truly unreal how f*cking hot" she was and how she is "50 times hotter in person".
A marketing manager for a jewelry business
In addition to modeling, the 23-year-old social media influencer also works as a marketing manager, having graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Marketing and Advertisement. She puts her degree to good use marketing her jewelry brand founded by her sister Baylen, called Strung by Stroh.
According to the store's website, Strung by Stroh is a "unique and affordable jewelry line, created from Baylen's love of making jewelry with her grandmother and little sister every summer growing up."
A lover of all things fashion, Stroh has a YouTube account with over 6.37k subscribers, where she posts clothing hauls, vacation vlogs and beauty videos.
Her relationship with the Maroon 5 singer
In the viral reveal of her alleged affair with Levine, Stroh said that she and the singer were seeing each other for about a year before she stopped talking to him for a period of months. However, he came back into her life to ask if he could name his third baby after her.
Stroh proceeded to share how her morals were "unknowingly compromised" and how she was "completely manipulated".
For his part, Levine took to his Instagram story to stress that that he did not commit an affair against his wife, but nevertheless "crossed the line" with her.
Stroh detailed the reason that forced her to come forward with her illicit relationship with the singer. She said that she didn't want to put the scandalous affair out for the whole world to see, but that she was left with her hands tied after her friend threatened to sell her story to a tabloid.
"I wanted to deal with this privately. I never wanted to come forward because obviously I know the implications in doing what I do, making money the way I do and being an Instagram model, so being tied to a story like this, I know the stereotypes. I had sent some screenshots recklessly to a few friends I thought I trusted and one of them had attempted to sell to a tabloid. So here I am," Stroh said.
In a new TikTok video, the model apologized to Levine's wife, stressing that she was not trying to gain sympathy from the public and that she fully realizes she is not the victim in the issue.
@sumnerstroh embarrassed I was involved w a man with this utter lack of remorse and respect. #greenscreen ♬ original sound - Sumner Stroh
