Lily pons is a Venezuelan American social media sensation
Thanks to her vine account and YouTube videos having received over eight point four billion loops on vine
Lily pons had become the most played person on the most followed female personality on vine now turned massive YouTube
Superstar let's take a look at 10 interesting facts about Lily pons. How's it going guys?
I'm Leroy Kenton, and this is another episode of FTD facts. Now before
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So let me start off by saying lily ponds her name is Eleanor ponds
Maroney's and she was born in Caracas Venezuela and moved to the United States at the age of five years old and currently
She's 21 years old as a child she lived in Miami and she finished school at the Miami Country Day High School in
2015 and then she moved to Los Angeles, California
Lily's native language in Spanish, and she also speaks English and Italian and another question
I gotta ask you is what languages. Do you speak let me know down there Lily pons?
She was also severely bullied during high school
Yeah
They would make fun of her because of her
Accent and the way she spoke as well as made fun of the shape of her nose in an interview with people.com
Lily pons she explained that people used to throw food at her and sang songs about how ugly she was Wow
Now Lily pons. She was introduced to vine at the age of 16 years old and at first
She was just being you know a little creative
But she went on to become one of the most influential
Users on the platform by using mostly relatable comedy
She carved out a huge niche for herself, and of course. She's widely known for the phrase do it for the vine
She was a do it for the vine girl Lele pons is managed by shots studios
They also produce her content on YouTube and right now on YouTube. She's hovering around the 6 million subscriber mark as well as
800 million YouTube's total video views'
And like she's just been on YouTube for like a year, and she's blowing up like this now in 2015
She was invited to the White House to create vines to support the first lady's campaign for disadvantaged kids to go to college
And in addition to everything else that she's already accomplished all still a while under the age of 25
She also has a book called surviving high school
She wrote it along with co-author and Melissa de la Cruz
Now the book highlights the ups and downs that comes with high school life now. The book is super funny
Just like her videos now in a recent controversy regarding lily ponds
She was accused of lying about donating her hair to charity in July of 2017
She shared a picture with herself holding a cut-off piece of hair however one Twitter user
Noted that to cut here that she held in the photo was actually here
extensions and hair extensions can't actually be
Donated to charity so the Twitter user was blocked by lily ponds and lily
Eventually responded and she said that originally she had cut her here with the intention to donate it
But then she learned that afterwards charities don't accept color treated hair
But in her life. She's had a ton of successes like in the year 2014
she earned a Teen Choice Awards nomination for choice of Viner as well as a Streamy Awards nomination for Viner of the Year and
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subsequent subsequent and its subsequent shorty awards nomination for vine star of the year in 2015
Also in 2015 Time magazine included her in the list of the most influential teens in
2016 and time also included her amongst the 30 most influential people on the internet fact
We're now in recent years 2017 Forbes magazine
included her in the part of its 30 under 30 list in the categories of entertainment immigrants and
youngest lily ponds ranks number 8 in Forbes top influencers of 2017 in the entertainment industry
So she's continuing to just kill it now her biggest goal is to be an
Actress in movies Lily pons had some success on TV having appeared in the American horror TV show
scream in
2016 as well as she's also acted in the TV series escape tonight and has also done movies like the space between us and
We love you
So that's it for this episode on facts about lily ponds lily ponds is a breath of fresh air when it comes to the YouTube
Comedy scene and her accent really adds to her videos kind of like Sofia Vergara
So it looks like she had the last laughs with her bullies and haters
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