Early life and Education
Lauren Giraldo was born on 11th January 1998 in Miami, Florida. She belongs to White-American ethnicity and holds American nationality.
Born into a mediocre family Giraldo has a sister, Kristina Giraldo, is a popular social media star. Their mother worked at the children’s hospital.
Since her childhood days, Giraldo loved to try different things, especially singing and mimicry. She showed her potential at an early age as Giraldo sang at family gatherings.
As a child, Giraldo joined musical theatre class and learned the basic nuances of singing & acting. Later, she moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry.
At first, there was a little backlash from her family as Giraldo was just 17 then, but all full of confidence,
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She began using the app, and her interesting way of putting things slowly started to get popular.
Once she had a decent number of videos, Giraldo’s fan-base started growing at a very rapid pace. She earns more than 2.5 million subscribers within one year of her debuting on Vine, which was a very rare feat by any standards.
In the year 2016, she was cast in the vine series ‘Came Unplug’ as the main star. Her work was universally appreciated and won three nominations for Streamy Awards 2016.
Giraldo’s success story invited various magazines to her doors, and as of now, she has appeared in the famous publications such as ‘Teen Vogue,’ ‘Latina Magazine,’ and ‘Seventeen.’ She cemented her place as a definite teen idol.
Giraldo is known to raise her voice towards women empowerment through her vines, and she collaborates from time-to-time with other You Tubers and social activists who are working towards the same goal.
However, the backside of this unabashed activism is the criticism Giraldo receives due to her lack of knowledge on various issues that she openly and harshly talks