Today we’d like to introduce you to Rae Serbeck.
Hi Rae, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
My name is Rae Serbeck, I was born November 3, 1996, on the Fort Hood Military Base in Fort Hood, Texas. My mother is Jeni and father was David both Veterans. My mother was a very kind person who worked a lot of nights at a job she hated just to put food on our table, even though she wasn’t around much, the times she was were very comforting. My father was a very abusive person who refused to work and was a compulsive liar, telling most people far tales about being a “big bad military man” and lied to most people pretending to have cancer. My mother and I have built a semi-good relationship over the recent years, my father passed away this year 2022 back in April, I hadn’t spoken to my father in over 11 years after he was taken to prison and I had finally been given the chance to get away from his influence.
After getting away, I lived most of my young life as an addict. I fell in with a group of friends who would give me pills and alcohol, which I gladly took to more deeply forget about my childhood for as long as the high would last. This went on for years. I had 1 early attempt at getting sober. My inspiration was joining my first Fire Academy in high school. I did well. I stayed sober for a little while, was top of my class, and even the class officer. I thought I had found my calling and a way out of my drug habits. Then I joined the Unified fire internship program through JATC. In all but being paid, I worked with as a firefighter and I was proud of it. Did many things I “wasn’t supposed to” in the safety rules of the program. Things like manning a hose in a car fire that was jammed up against a church, spending the night during school nights doing full 48-hour shifts with my assigned crew, and other things that were just as dangerous. I worked hard and I loved it. But there was finally a call that changed things for me. It came in as a typical medical call, but getting there it was a different kind of call altogether, it was my first ever suicide call. I won’t go into more detail about the call. But I was the first one in that room and the first one to see every inch of that room. To this day every inch of that room is still as clear as day.
I thought about that call for weeks and had constant bad dreams, finally, I hit a breaking point, and just to sleep I turned to nightly drinking. I kept to myself for the rest of my internship, graduated high school, and moved onto college. I was never really right in the head after my internship, lots to think about and I feel now that I was just too young to handle all of it. The next year is a complete haze that I honestly don’t remember much of, it was all just filled with alcohol and pills.
A long story very short. I was forced to get sober. Went through the worst pain in my life going through alcohol withdrawals and having 3 seizures.
Fast forward to a year later.
I had a year of sobriety on my belt and was finally making some good progress on surrounding myself with supportive friends. I’ve never had any dream or want to ever become an actor, Male Model, or even an Author. But the start of my career in the entertainment industry started in early 2017 and it was the day I found the thing I love most in life, the passion to create. My best friend Adam Christian Colvin talked me into a runway modeling tryout/audition. Adam and I were then chosen to be two of the male models chosen to showcase clothing for LA Talent, along with 4 other more seasoned male models. After that I was picked up by a small modeling agency in Utah named United Fashion Talent, but at the end of 2018, the agency disbanded. After another year and a half of Freelance modeling for small companies, I honestly had a big break, being published in my first magazine, Inspired Magazine in 2020, and a month later being published as the Cover Model in the same Inspired Magazine. Then in February of 2020, I stepped into the world of acting, hired to be an actor in Robbie Tripps music Video LUKA DONCIC. Then that same year in May, I was Published as a Writer for the first time in the Humanitarian International Magazine Elixir by Royel, writing about Bullying in today’s society, people liked my piece so much that I was asked back, the next 2 pieces I got to speak about Racism and then Drug addiction. Since those first pieces, I’ve written 2 more times and just last month was asked to come back for another, so I am currently putting my time into the newest issue of theirs coming out next month. Currently (as of June 2022), I been published in over 30 International Magazines, acted in several feature and short films, published 5 times as a Humanitarian writer with Elixir by Royel, became the Author of my very first book “5 Published thoughts of a man in the year 2020”, and have officially at the end of year 2020 started his own clothing company called “Witness Me Clothing Co.” that gives all proceeds to a different charity at the start of each month (featured in Business Insider, Yahoo News, Market Daily, and many other publications). And my proudest of all my accomplishments, today (June 20th, 2022) I’ve officially been sober 5 Years, 10 months, and 10 days.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
God there have been millions of obstacles and definitely have been challenges.
Since becoming sober, anyone who knew me before I made that step doubted me every single step, constantly waited for me to take another big fall. Often times openly talking about the belief I’d fail to me or in front of me.
It’s a very disheartening feeling. A part of me wanted to give in all the time to what everyone was saying, one of those “maybe I’ll prove them right” kind of feelings. But I made the choice to continue fighting against it every day.
When I first stepped into the modeling world, many of my family would tell me “I should get a real job”, “I should keep my head down”, etc. There was just no belief in what I was doing. It took 3 years for my family to finally see all my hard work pay off visually enough to start thinking about supporting what I was doing.
I feel the biggest obstacle for myself and a lot of people out there at the end of the day is ourselves. When you don’t believe in your own words, would anyone else?
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
Haha well, I do lots of stuff nowadays.
I’d say my 2 biggest things I’m known for right now is as a published Male Model and my efforts as a humanitarian writer for Elixir by Royel.
I feel one of the ways I was able to really stand out among a lot of the other potential models out there was my use of high fashion posing, creating interesting and a unique feel when I was working for clothing companies.
And for my humanitarian writing. I’m not really sure what made me stand out among all the other very talented writers from around the world they had writing pieces. Many of the readers would send me msgs over social media and thank me for what I had to say and how much they liked the way I wrote how I spoke, without taking any side or telling people how to think or feel, but just giving my thoughts in a non-aggressive way.
The other things I do. My big push currently is as a writer. Currently, I have 1 published book out called “5 published thoughts of a man in the year 2020”, which is a collection of my humanitarian writing pieces with Elixir and can be bought through Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, and Google books.
Currently, I’m working on my first 3 children’s bedtime story books as well, working with a professional illustrator based out of Germany.
I am a professional voice actor and a part-time film actor. As a voice actor, I’ve found of my favorite things in life. Taking on an androgynous natural voice that I’ve become known for on many projects.
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
I keep my work and personal life extremely separate. I just want part of my life not to be public knowledge and be able to just enjoy privacy. But because of this, many of the repeat projects I work on with people I’ve now known for years at this point had no idea until very recently that I have a fiancé that I am head over heels in love with. Her and I have been together for the past 3 years, but because I’m pretty private when I’m working, it just so happened not a single person had any idea 😂
Pricing:
- My current book on Barnes and Nobles. Paperback $7.99 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/5-published-thoughts-of-a-man-in-the-year-2020-rae-serbeck/1141319316?ean=9798765551790
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.raeserbeck.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raeserbeckofficial/
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RaeSerbeck
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/RaeSerbeck
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/7koSDi7rjkJb6KBz5
- Other: https://www.backstage.com/u/rae-serbeck
Image Credits
PUMP Magazine
Luna Malyna
Rae Serbeck
Christina Lane
Hawkins Rae
Serbeck Book
Francis Wong
Vanity Wall Magazine
Chris Cano
Jamie Thissen Betts
