Jessica Bass Byge
YouTube Star
Dance fitness instructor who created the YouTube channel Dance Fitness with Jessica, which has accumulated more than 1 million subscribers.
She aspired to be a professional dancer who would appear in music videos and in film. She thought her dancing career would be over after a couple of pregnancies, but after taking some zumba classes, she became inspired to get her fitness certification.
A local Knoxville newspaper named her class as the "Best Fitness Class" in the area which led to a huge boom in attendance.
She was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She had three children by the age of 24. Her grandmother played a major part in bringing jazzercise to the west coast of the US.
Her dance fitness routine set to Silento's "Watch Me" went viral.