Emma Ellingsen

Norwegian model and internet personality (born 2001)
Emma Ellingsen
Ellingsen in 2019
Born (2001-09-09) 9 September 2001 (age 22)
Tønsberg, Norway
Modeling information
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorBlue
AgencyTeam Models
  • Emma Ellingsen
Genre(s)Make-up, vlog, travel vlogs
Subscribers456 thousand[1]
Total views32.8 million[1]
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 27 July 2022

Emma Ellingsen (born 9 September 2001)[2] is a Norwegian model and YouTuber. Her YouTube channel features make up tutorials,[3] video vlogs, and travel vlogs. Ellingsen is signed with the Oslo-based modeling agency Team Models.[4]

Early life

Ellingsen grew up in Nøtterøy, a town that is an hour's train ride away from Oslo.[5] Ellingsen came out to her family and friends as transgender when she was around nine years old.[6][7] As a child she was featured in the Norwegian documentary Born in the Wrong Body which focused on her and other transgender children in Norway.[8]

Career

By age 17, the young model had appeared on several cover stories for Norwegian fashion magazines and had appeared in international publications like W magazine, which has a readership of around half a million.[8] Her follower count on social media at this time was very high, facilitating partnerships with multiple brands and modelling agencies.[8] Currently one of the hottest names on Scandinavian social media, Ellingsen is an emerging YouTube star, with her looks, wit, and laidback style attracting a large fanbase.[8] Ellingsen had started publishing YouTube videos in English at age 15 in order to reach an audience worldwide, resulting in her subscriber count increasing dramatically from 40,000 in September 2017 to around 300,000 a year later.[5] Ellingsen is one of the most-followed people from Norway on social media.[9] She now has over 600,000 followers on Instagram.[10] She also has 1.7 million likes and over 150,000 followers on TikTok.[11]

In January 2018 Ellingsen was named 'influencer of the year' at the See and Hear Celebrity Gala.[12] As a 17-year-old she was also nominated for the 2018 'name of the year' award given by Dagbladet newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in Norway.[13]

In 2018, she took a year off from school to focus on her modeling and social media career.[14]

Ellingsen was the central figure in ELLE Norway's June 2019 issue.[15]

Once described as "Norway's rising Kendall Jenner", Ellingsen has stated that she admires Jenner's "laid-back" style, and that she gets "a lot of inspiration from her and whoever else I see on my Explore page on Instagram—when it's not all makeup and cute boys".[5]

Ellingsen has worked for fashionble clothing seller NA-KD, modelling products and creating her own influencer collections.[16][17] In June 2020, it was announced that Ellingsen would feature in the Norwegian TV Series The Bloggers.[18]

She stars in the television series Generation Z, which came out 2018. In 2020, Ellingsen released a book, Emma.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Emma Ellingsen". YouTube.
  2. ^ Nye, Elen Kristvik Det (4 May 2019). "50 spørsmål med Emma Ellingsen: - Det blir kanskje litt vanskeligere for meg å få kjæreste". www.klikk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ GLOWY SUMMER MAKEUP LOOK // EMMA ELLINGSEN, retrieved 13 October 2021
  4. ^ "Team Models". Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Emma Ellingsen, Norway's Rising Kendall Jenner, Wants You to Know That She's Transgender". Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. ^ "YouTube Star Emma Ellingsen Comes Out As Transgender". 3 July 2017.
  7. ^ Onedio.com. "Dünyanın En Güzel Trans Bireyi Olarak Gösterilen Norveçli Model Emma Ellingsen".
  8. ^ a b c d "Norwegian Model Emma Ellingsen On Discovering Her Identity – L'Officiel". www.lofficielusa.com. 17 February 2021.
  9. ^ "You are guaranteed to hear more from these talents". 23 August 2018.
  10. ^ "emma the vampire slayer (@emmaellingsenn) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Emma Ellingsen on TikTok". TikTok. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Tvillingbrødre ble bror og søster".
  13. ^ "- Jeg så ikke på meg selv som et forbilde". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 18 December 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  14. ^ Eckardt, Stephanie (17 September 2018). "Norway's Rising Kendall Jenner Wants You to Know That She's Transgender".
  15. ^ "Rising Norwegian Star Emma Ellingsen Poses For Asa Tallgard In ELLE Norway June 2019". Anne of Caversville. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  16. ^ NA-KD. "Emma Ellingsen Plays: "Name That 90's Thing"". YouTube.
  17. ^ "Emma Ellingsen x NA-KD". www.na-kd.comwww.na-kd.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Tre Bloggerne-profiler gir seg". 12 June 2020.
  19. ^ "Åpner seg om inngrepet". October 2020.