Jenna Nicole Mourey, better known as Jenna
Marbles, is a youtuber from the United States.
She was born in Rochester, New York, on September
15 of 1986. Her father is a chemist, and her
mother works with her. She also has an older
brother.
When she was little she loved to do gymnastics,
dance, and play baseball. She also played
the clarinet, the piano, and she loves animals!
It's very common to see her pets in her videos.
When she was 17 years old, without being sure
about the path she wanted to follow in life,
she moved to Boston, alone. There she met
a lot of new people through her softball team,
and just as a hobby she learned on her own
how to edit videos.
She graduated in Psychology at the University
of Suffolk, and completed a Master's Degree
at the University of Boston in Sports Psychology
and Counseling. However, despite all of her
preparation she couldn't find a job in her
field and had to take part-time jobs, which
frustrated her a lot.
Fortunately her luck changed for the better!
One day she couldn't enter her apartment,
and while she waited at the stairs for someone
to open the door for her, she met who would
later on become her boyfriend: Max Weisz.
She formed a family with him and her two dogs,
Kermit and Marbles. She also managed to get
a job at the BarStoolSports blog, first as
an assistant, and then writing for the female-oriented
section of the blog named StooLaLa. That's
where she learned everything about the Internet,
and eventually she realized that what she
wanted to do was create her own videos.
Six months after finishing this working phase
she started making videos again, and discovered
YouTube. There she created her first Channel,
Jenna Mourey, on April 6 of 2006, but it wasn't
until February of 2008 when she uploaded her
first video. Eventually she stopped uploading
videos there, and started focusing on her
current channel, Jenna Marbles, which has
that name in honor of her chihuahua. She made
this change because her mom was looking for
work, and when she tried to access the Internet
with her last name, everything that appeared
was related to her daughter!
Virality would finally come with her video
How to trick people into thinking you're good
looking, which quickly got millions of views.
This encouraged her to publish videos more
frequently. She also moved to Los Angeles
with Max, although they separated on 2012.
When she started dating her current boyfriend,
the youtuber Julien Solomita, it was difficult
for her viewers to get used to that new situation.
However, little by little they started accepting
Solomita, and right now he is one of the strong
points of Jenna's channel. The themes of her
videos have been changing over time: In the
beginning they were focused in comedy, "how
to be" as well as Q&A videos. Then she started
making beauty videos, and little by little
started introducing content about her lifestyle.
What hasn't changed is her dogs appearing
in every video Jenna makes, and she even created
a toy line for them!
On May of 2020 Jenna had more than 20 million
subs and more than 3.5 billion views on her
YouTube channel. From 2011 to 2017 she was
the most followed woman on the platform. Moreover,
she and her boyfriend have a joint channel,
Jenna Julien, where every Monday they do a
podcast where they talk about different topics,
normally with the sense of humor which characterizes
them.
Her humor and ingenuity led her to be branded
as YouTube's queen in more than one occasion,
and like a good queen, 10 years later she
is still at the top. What do you think is
the secret of her success, tiktakers?
