“Some days I still can't believe I actually moved across the world for love.” 🥹 — Annie
Chapter 6 · The Fashion Queen
Quit a well-paying job. Went full-time creator.
SHOOTMODELEDITWRITENEGOTIATE
“I am a one-woman team most of the time.”
BRANDS THAT SLID INTO HER DMs NeutrogenaWalmartLulus ambassadorYSL BeautyExpressPolèneFroot Loops 🥣
REALSeattle, saree, slay
REALHollywood Hills
73.7K
followers & counting
Behind every great influencer…
is a husband on a wet Seattle sidewalk
“I approve of @rahulbaboota as my lifetime Photographer!” 🤪📸 — Annie, Nov 2023 (contract signed, no exit clause)
ACTUAL REEL, MARCH 2025 · “Do something cute for the reel!”
→ throws head back laughing like a slow-mo romcom hero 🙈 → dramatically wipes coffee off her lip… misses 🤦♀️ smudges it more → laughs at his own “smoothness” like he planned it all 😂
Shah Rukh who? 😎
Sept 2026 · Chapter 7
New York Fashion Week
Her first ever #NYFW. Walking for Label Nimisha · Runway7 · Sony Hall.
REALthe actual runway ✨
“India to the world. Now we're talking. 🚀 …walking NYFW wearing a little piece of my own brand.” 🥹
Rahul: front row, crying 😭
Chapter 8 · The AI Hero
By day: Applied AI Engineer. By night: Tech by Rahul.
Zeta Globalex-Microsoftex-NVIDIAUSC CS
“AI and Career Advice from a Real AI Engineer” — @techbyrahulb bio
🌳
103 ❤
How Cursor indexes code with Merkle trees
Classic CS flex. LinkedIn loved it.
📝
Every Friday
What did I ship? Who did it help? What number moved?
Annie: “What did you ship?” Rahul: “Your Lulus order.”
Comment “TEMPLATE” and he will literally DM you. A legend.
⚠
His warning
“Don't outsource your thinking to AI.”
Deep, outsourcing 100% of this deck: 👀
Chapter 9 · Duniya ghoom lo
🌺 Maui
🏝 Big Island
🌮 Cancun
🗽 New York
🏔 Vancouver
🌆 Toronto
🛍 Portland
🐅 Ranthambore
“If Raj met Simran in Tulum… no ganne ke khet, but plenty of palm trees. Ja Simran ja, beach pe ja!” 🏖️
Annie, terrified, 800 ft above the ocean. Rahul: “Give it five seconds.” 🪂 (5 seconds later: dolphins. Rahul: always right. Annoying.)
July 2026 · Chapter 10
Anaar
“Rahul and I have started something of our own.”
Handcrafted in India, for the world. Statement earrings ✨ · hand-beaded bags 👛 First pop-up 🌺 · walked NYFW in Anaar earrings
@anaarworld · buyanaar.com
REALbead bag era
REALAnaar in NYC 🗽
Ambani family, call them 📞
Warm 🤗 · Humble 🙏 · Welcoming 🏡
“From strangers to friends, from random plans to endless memories, America has given us a story we'll cherish forever.” — Rahul & Annie's farewell invite
I've known them for a very short time. They made a lasting impact. Samosas were involved. 🥟 — Deep
Interval se pehle… 🎻
“Har kahaani ka ek naya mod hota hai!”
They're packing their bags and heading back to India 🇮🇳 · Seattle ka dil: 💔
Ghar wapsi: Seattle ✈ Dilli 🇮🇳
🗻
Seattle
will miss you (and your samosas)
🇮🇳
Dilli
Mummy's rajma chawal ready
Dhol ✔ Garlands ✔ 26 relatives at the airport ✔
Yeh THE END nahi hai…
Picture abhi baaki hai,
mere dost!
🍿 INTERVAL 🍿
🎬 FAREWELL PREMIERE
Sat, Nov 14 · 8 PM · Windsor Cirrus Rooftop, Seattle Dress code: Bollywood character. No character, no entry! 🙈 partiful.com/e/xqhNneAeoUmh9IAIVcwq
“Mogambo khush nahi hoga” if you come in regular clothes 😂
“Cut! Print! Everybody cry now.”
Rahul & Annie
thank you for the warmth, the chai, the laughs & the love