Ashley Qualls

Ashley Qualls (born July 1990) is an entrepreneur from Lincoln Park, Michigan. Originally as a hobby, in 2004 at age 14, she started a website called [http://www.whateverlife.com whateverlife.com] , designed to provide free Myspace layouts and HTML tutorials for people in her age demographic, and supported entirely by advertising revenue [cite web|url= http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/52250/teen-millionaire|title= People of the Web - Teen Millionaire|accessdate= 2008-02-19|last=Sites
first=Kevin|date=2007-10-30|publisher= Yahoo! News] . The website receives several times more traffic than circulations for popular teen magazines "Seventeen", "Teen Vogue", and "CosmoGirl!" combined cite web|url= http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html
title= Girl Power|accessdate= 2008-02-19|last=Salter|first=Chuck|year = 2007|month = September
publisher= Fast Company] .

In September 2006 she paid cash for a $250,000 home in a fenced-off subdivision in the community of Southgate.. She lives there with her mother Linda LaBreque (42), younger sister Shelby (°1999); as well as three cats, two turtles, a rottweiler, a hamster, and a fish. On September 5, 2007, she obtained legal emancipation, giving her the same legal status as adults.

The basement of the home is her office. In addition to employing her mother she employs friends from school.

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* [http://www.whateverlife.com Whateverlife.com]