Essena O'Neill
YouTube Star
Gained fame as a health conscious blogger and YouTuber advocating for an active living paired with healthy, nutritious food. She shared vegan recipes and a vegan lifestyle with her hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers before abruptly quitting social media in 2015.
She was sixteen years old when she began answering personal questions on her Tumblr account, which led to an increase in following.
In 2015, she publicly lashed out against social media, deleting multiple accounts while launching her own website, letsbegamechangers.com. Before deleting her Instagram account, she had gained more than half a million followers. She has collaborated with companies such as Lorna Jane and Triangl Swim. As a model, she signed with IMG.
She is half polish and half Australian and her hometown is the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She then moved to Brisbane.
She and Nina Nelson both became popular vegan YouTubers.