Emma Ellingsen
Norwegian model and influencer (born 2001)
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Emma Kongslie Ellingsen (born 9 September 2001)[1] is a Norwegian model and YouTuber. Her YouTube channel features make up tutorials,[2] video vlogs, and travel vlogs. Ellingsen is signed with the Oslo-based modeling agency Team Models.[3]
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Emma Ellingsen | |
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Ellingsen in 2019 | |
| Born | 9 September 2001 Tønsberg, Norway |
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| Height | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Agency | Team Models |
| YouTube information | |
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| Subscribers | 455 thousand |
| Views | 33.8 million |
| Last updated: 12 November 2025 | |
Early life
Ellingsen grew up on Nøtterøy, an island in the county of Vestfold south of Oslo.[4] Ellingsen came out to her family and friends as transgender when she was around nine years old.[5][6] As a child she was featured in the Norwegian documentary Born in the Wrong Body which focused on her and other transgender children in Norway.[7]
Career
By age 17, the young model had appeared on several cover stories for Norwegian fashion magazines and in international publications like W magazine.[7] Ellingsen started publishing YouTube videos in English at age 15, resulting in her subscriber count increasing from 40,000 in September 2017 to around 300,000 a year later.[4] Ellingsen is one of the most-followed people from Norway on social media.[8] She has more than 600,000 followers on Instagram.[9] She also has 1.7 million likes and more than 150,000 followers on TikTok.[10]
In January 2018 Ellingsen was named 'influencer of the year' at the See and Hear Celebrity Gala.[11] As a 17-year-old she was also nominated for the 2018 'name of the year' award given by Dagbladet newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in Norway.[12]
In 2018, she took a year off from school to focus on her modeling and social media career.[13]
Ellingsen was the central figure in ELLE Norway's June 2019 issue.[14]
Once described as "Norway's rising Kendall Jenner", Ellingsen has stated that she admires Jenner's "laid-back" style, and that she gets "a lot of inspiration from her and whoever else I see on my Explore page on Instagram—when it's not all makeup and cute boys".[4]
Ellingsen has worked for fashionable clothing seller NA-KD, modelling products and creating her own influencer collections.[15][16] In June 2020, it was announced that Ellingsen would feature in the Norwegian TV Series The Bloggers.[17]
She stars in the television series Generation Z, which came out 2018. In 2020, Ellingsen released a book, Emma.[18]
TV-appearances (selection)
- 2014: Født i feil kropp
- 2018–2019: Generasjon Z
- 2019: Glow Up
- 2020–2021: Bloggerne
- 2021: Emmas stemme
- 2022: Annerledes
- 2024: Farmen kjendis
- 2024: Sofa
- 2025: Boksen
- 2025: Skal vi danse
- 2026: Girls of Oslo