Who is the social media star Elina Karimova?
Elina Karimova was born in Uzbekistan on 22 April 1998, – her zodiac sign is Taurus and she holds Uzbekistani nationality. She is a singer and a social media star, who is today mostly popular for her Instagram account – there are around 1.2 million currently following her, while Elina has uploaded around 350 pictures onto it; these mostly feature her skinny Barbie-like body.
Early life and education
Elina was raised an only child in Uzbekistan by her father who is a factory worker and her mother who is working at a local supermarket as a cashier.
The family didn’t have much money while Elina was growing up, just enough for her parents to pay bills and put food on the table.
Elina became interested in modelling while attending elementary school, as she and her peers started reading girly magazines and practiced posing in front of their bedroom mirrors. Elina launched her career on the internet upon enrolling at a local high school, and to stay fit and look good, she started playing sports including tennis and volleyball.
She matriculated in 2016 and then moved to Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, where she is currently focusing on her career on the internet.
Career as a social media star
Elina is active on Facebook on which she has gathered around 8,000 followers, however, she is perhaps mostly focused on her TikTok account, which is currently followed by over 2000 people, while Elina has gathered over 3,500 likes of all her videos combined – TikTok is a short video sharing service, which most people use to share their six-second long comedy videos.
Elina rarely shares comedy videos, but is rather focused on creating videos which feature her showing her beautiful face, or while she’s singing.
She is also a YouTuber who launched her first channel in 2013, however, she recently launched a new channel on 14 June 2019, which is currently subscribed to less than 1,000 people, while all her videos have been viewed around 17,000 times. Elina is mostly focused on uploading videos of her covering famous songs such as “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, and “Somehow” by Tom Odell.
However, her most popular videos are “Elina Karimova – Lina’s daily makeup!” which has been seen over 11,000 times and “Elina Karimova – Despacito Cover”, watched over 2,200 times, both uploaded on 14 June 2019.
Love life and relationships
Elina is very secretive when it comes to her love life, and hasn’t talked about any boys she might have dated, however, there are rumors circulating the internet that she is in a relationship with a mysterious non-celebrity boy from Seoul whom she met not long after she moved there.
Several of Elina’s fans claim to have seen the two walking hand in hand in the streets of Seoul – according to the rumors, they have been together for around three years now.
There are also rumors claiming that Elina is a lesbian, because she only uploads pictures with other girls onto her Instagram account but never with a boy – some people have even claimed seeing Elina at parties in Seoul while being rather too close to her female friend, but no pictures have been uploaded to support the claims, and Elina hasn’t addressed the rumors.
As of September 2020, Elina is single, hasn’t married and doesn’t have children.
Hobbies and other interests
Elina is a huge fan of animes and animated Japanese movies – some of her favorite animes are “Cowboy Bebop”, “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion”, and some of her favorite animated Japanese movies are “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”, “Princess Mononoke” and “Ponyo”, all of which were created by Studio Ghibli.
Being a fan of animes as she is, Elina likes to do cosplay and dress up for costume parties and Halloween – she often uploads pictures of her costumes onto her Instagram account.
She is physically very active as she swims nearly every day, and goes to the gym at least twice a week – Elina is also following a very strict diet thus her slim body.
She is a huge lover of animals and has a Spitz pet dog.
One of Elina’s favorite hobbies is travelling, and she has been to several Asian countries such as Japan, China and Vietnam, and has also been to Europe on multiple occasions, staying in countries such as Switzerland and Italy.
Age and height
Elina is 22 years old. She has long brown hair which she occasionally dyes blonde, and brown eyes. Her height is 5ft 3ins (1.6m) and she weighs around 125lbs (57kgs).
As of September 2020, her net worth has been estimated at over $300,000.