Jenna Marbles is one of most subscribed and viewed YouTuber in the world and besides that she also developed career as actress.
She became very popular in 2010 when she posted a video with interesting and catchy headline “How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking”. This video gained even 5.3 million views same week it was released. That was a great success for such short time and she became famous through her YouTube videos which is simple named “Jenna Marbles”.
She has more than 2.5 billion views in total on her YouTube channel she opened in 2006 and over then 19 million subscribers. She is considered as the second most influence and most popular woman YouTuber in the world. Her channel is 11th most subscribed in the world. Besides that, she is the first internet celebrity who has wax statue of her at the Madame Tussauds Museum in London.
More about successful career and private life of this famous YouTuber and actress you can read find in the text below.
Early years
The full and born name of Jenna Marbles is Jenna Nicole Mourey. She was born on September 15th 1986 in Rochester, New York, United States of America.
She has Irish, Italian, French and German descent.
She has brother under name Devon Mourey and they spent their childhood together in the town of Lake Ontario along with their parents. Her mother’s name is Deborah Mourey and the name of her father is unknown in the public.
Her father is a chemist and he made a several patents that belong to field of chemistry.
Her parents divorced and that was very stressful period for her because she didn’t expect that they split up. She was feeling a huge pain and from happy and satisfied girl she got complexes and insecurity.
Jenna attended the Brighton High School. After she finished her high school education she moved to Boston to enroll the studies of Psychology at Suffolk University and she succeed to earn a Bachelor degree at Psychology Science. She decided to continue her education and to pursue Master degree of Education in Sports Psychology and Counseling at the Boston University.
Jenna started to work during studies because she wasn’t fulfilled with her life and with her profession although she was a good student.
She worked as bar tender, manager and dancer in night clubs. Later she opened her own YouTube channel and became a social media star.
Career development
As we already mentioned Jenna started to work while she was at the college. Her first job was in Barstool Sports company which owns a few websites specialized in different fields. She was wroting there texts for their women’s website named StoolLaLa.
In 2010 she began to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a three-bedroom apartment with roommates and she was paying a rent $800 for that. In that period she changed a few jobs. She worked as bartender, go-go dancer, blogger and also as a beauty worker in a tanning salon.
After various work experience and skills she acquired Jenna decided to open her own YouTube channel in 2006 and she simple called it by her own name “Jenna Mourey”.
Later she took pseudonym Jenna Marbles for her channel because her mother who was unemployed in that moment didn’t want to miss a chance to be hired. She thought that using of their legal surname for online influence could be a little bit risky in finding a new employer and she complained to Jenna who decided to change her YouTube name in Jenna Marbles.
She took pseudonym Marbles by her dog’s name “Mr. Marbles”.
Jenna made appropriate weekly schedule of uploading videos and she posts vlogs each Wednesday or Thursday so fans and followers exactly know when they should visit her channel.
In 2010 she posted a video with an catchy headline “How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking” and same week it was released gained amazing 5.3 million views so her popularity grown very quickly.
In this video which is intended to women Jenna appeared without any make up with messy blonde hair dyed. After that ugly appearance she shows step by step her face on which she put powder, lipstick, eye shadows, eyeliner and big lashes for smokey eyes effect. Last change she shows is hairy hair. At the end of video she says that this advices wouldn’t help to men so they just have to find a girl who thinks that they are funny. Today this video has incredible 68 million views.
Her second also one of most popular and viewed video under name “How To Avoid Talking To People You Don’t Want To Talk To” was even published in articles of “ABC News” and “The New York Times” in August 2011. This video reached 35 million views on April 2017 and today it has 36 million views.
In this video she explains as the headline of it said how to avoid talking to people you don’t Want to talk to. She gives the example when girl is standing in night club and a guy come to her and start to touch her back. She gives advice that girl should turn to him and make a frozen scared facial expression like she saw the monster. She also notes that girl should keep that facial expression although a guy is surprised with her reaction and he asks her what is happening. At the end, as Jenna explains, he can just conclude that girl is weird so he will go away. The freaking staring at person with who you don’t want to talk to is the key of avoiding communication with her.
In this video in which she stated the famous sentence that people remember “I’m sick and tired of guys thinking just because I showed up at a club or a dance or a bar, I want to have their genitalia touching my backside”.
On June 19th 2014 Jenna posts her jubilee 200th video. Jenna’s videos mostly have a short duration, from two to ten minutes. She creates videos on different topics and she often gives advices to people on a funny way.
She also shoots a vlogs on themes of male-female relations. She usually makes separated videos about what men and women thinking in a different situations – for example, video under name “What Girls Think About During Sex”. She also likes to make compares how they behave during daily routines. For example, video called “What Girls Do In The Bathroom In The Morning” shows what women are doing after awakening and how they beautify theyselves.
The Jennna’s videos have over than 2.5 billion views. She has more than her 19 million subscribers on her YouTube channel which is 11th most subscribed in the world. She also got the unofficial and informal title of the second most influence and most popular woman YouTuber in the world so she can proudly stand to in a line with famous YouTubers such as PewDiePie and Markiplier.
She is also the first online influencer who got wax statue of her at the Madame Tussauds Museum in London which is official confirmation of her huge success in the sphere of the internet celebrities.
Besides her YouTube channel she has accounts on other social networks. She has more than 5 million followers on her Instagram and Twitter profiles and more than 2 million fans on her official Facebook page.
Jenna is also developing her acting career. She appeared in several TV series and movies.
In 2011 she was a guest in TV Talk-Show titled “The Moms View” and she also played a role in short action comedy under name “Lambda House Presents: Google Check”.
In 2012 she appeared in TV Reality show named “Internet Icon” as a guest judge. Same year she participate in comedian TV series “RVC: The Lone Shopping Network”.
In 2013 she played a role in 13th episode of second season “Epic Rap Battles of History”.
She appeared in “Fake n’ Bacon” in the The Annoying Orange episode.
She acting famous singer Miley Cyrus in a inspired segment of YouTube Rewind 2013 of Miley’s song “Wrecking Ball.
On January 2014 she acted in fourth season of “Ridiculousness” and in TV series named “Smosh Babies”.
In 2014 she also appeared in the music video for song “Fireball” which performers are Pitbull feat. John Ryan.
She also acting herself in YouTube Rewind for 2014 titled “Turn Down 2014” and in the movie “Road Hard” released in 2015.
In 2015 she played a roles in TV series named “Hey USA” and in the movie called “Smosh”.
Jenna also launched the toys of dog brand under name “Kermie Worm & Mr. Marbles” which are based on names and look of her real pets. She also designed products with some of her recognizable statements.
She is also a host of weekly pop countdown titled “YouTube 15” which is broadcast on SiriusXM Hits 1.
In 2016 she became an executive producer for movie named “Maximum Ride” which is based on the same name TV novels series directed by James Patterson.
In 2014 Jenna was the winner of Viral Supestar award at the Young Hollywood Award ceremony.
In 2015 and in 2017 she was nominated on Streamy Awards in three categories – for Best Comedy Series, for Best First-Person Series and for Audience Choice Creator of the Year but she didn’t won neither of these awards.
Jenna also engaged a few associates for her job. She hired her mother as CEO and she also hired business manager and personal assistant.
There were speculations that Jenna will be houseguest in a reality show Celebrity Big Brother in the United Kingdom. That unconfirmed information caused a strong reactions of people who didn’t consider Jenna as a celebrity. She still didn’t appear in this TV show so it was probably just a rumor.
Personal life
During her high school education she was in a relationship with a certain guy named Willy for four years.
From 2008 to 2012 Jenna was a in a relationship with her YouTube colleague Max Weisz. They seemed like a perfect couple on their YouTube channels and others social networks accounts where they often posted their videos and photos. After their break up they stayed in a good relationships and it looked like they gave support each other all until April 2013 when Jenna express her huge anger to her ex boyfriend on her Twitter account. She claimed that he was cheating her and she told to fans that they never be again together.
From 2013 she is dating with YouTuber named Julien Solomita. They met for the first time when Julien worked as a bar tender. When they hooked up Jenna helped him to open his own YouTube channel and to post an interesting videos so he has more than 1.7 million subscribers nowdays. In February 2013 Julien was spotted for the first time in Jenna’s videos on her trip to Ireland. According to some internet sources they liked each other on that vacation.
Jenna and Julien also are playing games and both of them have channels on Twitch. They also have joint podcast named “The Jenna Julien Podcast”. Jenna expose her private life and her relationship on her social media accounts.
Jenna currently lives in Santa Monica, California in rented house in the city where she moved recently but she hide the location of her home. It is known in the public that she was paying a rent for previous house she lived even $1.1 million.
She has a three dogs – black and white Chihuahua named Marbles and two Italian Greyhounds, Kermit and Peach.
Net worth
Her net worth from her YouTube channel is estimated in total about $3 million at the beginning of 2019. Last year her net worth was about $2.9 million and in 2017 it was $2.5 million. She earns about $350 thousands per year from her YouTube channel although she has salary also from her brand of toys of dogs and from other work engagements such as her acting roles.
According to some online sources her net worth in total (including all her earnings – from YouTube, from her brands and movies producing) in 2017 was $4 million. On the other hand, there are information that she earned $4 million only in 2018 and that her net worth same year was even $10 million.
Neither of this information isn’t confirmed and these are just still estimates based on YouTube statistics and conditions of earnings.
Quick summary
Full name: Jenna Nicole Mourey
Nickname: Jenna Marbles (online name, stage name)
Date of birth: September 15th 1986
Age: 33
Zodiac sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, United States of America
Profession/Occupation: YouTuber, actress, comedian, social media star, online influencer
Net worth and salary: about $3 million
Height: 165 cm (5 feet and 7 inches)
Weight: 55 kg
Body Measurement: 36-23.5-34 inches
Marital status: not married
Children: no children
Love status: in a relationship with YouTuber Julien Solomita
Residence: Santa Monica, California, United States
Religion: Christian
Nationality: American
Origin: Irish, Italian, French and German
Ethnicity: white
Social media accounts and web site:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMarbles
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennamarbles/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennamarbles/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenna_marbles