Hayley Kiyoko was a child actress and modle, she starred in things such as Scooby-Doo! film series, Lemonade Mouth, Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Jem and the Holograms, Insidious: Chapter 3, and XOXO. However, as she got older, she started persuing things such as music and writting. In 2015 she released a song titled Hirls like Girld and in 2023 she wrote a book under the same named, based of the events in the song. The book has become a New York Times best seller and a movie.