Coria Rayvon is a popular fashion YouTuber, who is also known for her relationship with Khalil Underwood, a rising actor and YouTube personality. Even though they broke-up in 2018, they still make videos together, supporting their friendship.
Early life and family
Corie Rayvon Smith was born on 2 July 1996, in Houston, Texas USA, so holding American nationality, and a zodiac sign of Cancer. Corie hasn’t shared much information about her parents or siblings, saying that she is quite a private person and doesn’t like people to know too much about her family. From her early years she enjoyed dancing and singing, and in 2015 she moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue her social media and modelling career.
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Educational background
Corie matriculated from Pearland High School six months earlier than her classmates, as she passed her exams externally. Right after her matriculation in 2014, Corie enrolled at a nursing school, studying there until moving to Los Angeles in 2015. She had to drop nursing school, however, she shared that she would love to eventually accomplish her tertiary education in order to have a back-up profession.
Career
YouTube career
Corie created her YouTube account in 2016, developing her social media portfolio. Since her first video – “My Curly Hair Tutorial | Corie Rayvon” she posted on 19 May 2016 – she has been doing hair tutorials, make-up videos and fashion reviews, collaborating with rising singer Jilly Anais several times, as they made friends right after Corie’s matriculation. Corie has also uploaded a lot of challenge and prank videos. As of 2020, her YouTube channel is verified at almost 600,000 subscribers.
Among her most popular videos there are “NEW LOUNGEUNDERWEAR TRY ON HAUL!”, (2.7 million views – uploaded on 6 June 2019), “MY 21st Birthday!” (over 1.4 million views since 7 July 2017) and “VALENTINES TRY ON HAUL FT FASHION NOVA”, (over 1.3 million views in a year, and sponsored by Fashion Nova brand). In one of her videos she shared that she would love to have her own TV show, whether it would be a reality show or talk show with guests.
Instagram career
Corie started her Instagram profile in 2015, and soon attracted many subscribers by posting her photos in bikinis and short skirts and shorts. By 2020 she signed multiple commercial contracts with numerous brands and companies she now works for as a model. She is the official ambassador of the brand Icon Swim, and also publishes sponsored posts for Fashion Nova clothing brand, SugarBearHair vitamins, she advertises a honey cleanser by Pure Tropix. Corie is also a model for Brighter White teeth whitening system she has been using for more than two years.
She has recently started dealing with At-Home Laser Hair Removal system Hey Silky Skin Co, sharing her experience of using the gadget. As of February 2020, she has almost 900,000 subscribers on her Instagram account, and counting.
Controversy with Solluminati, another YouTube personality
A popular YouTuber nicknamed SOLLUMINATI (real name – Javonaty Baynes) made a video of Corie on 23 June 2018, stating that he’d admired her for more than a year, while those around him kept saying that she was no good. Javonaty then admitted that the day he finally agreed with his friends he was not interested in Corie anymore, she became single and broke up with her boyfriend, Khalil. Javonaty also stated he would love to have Corie on his channel, and wanted her to be in his videos, as he believed she would help him to attract millions of subscribers: ‘Corie is one of a kind, she is really beautiful. Feels like I love you, Corie’, Javonaty said in his video.
He also suggested a date, since as he stated in his own video, he changed a lot and was ready to make ‘something more’ from an ordinary relationship between a man and a woman due to his high spiritual intentions.
Corie kept silent for a long time, but her fans insisted on her answering Javonaty, leaving a lot of comments under her videos and Instagram posts about his message. Eventually she uploaded a video in which she watched the whole video from Javonaty and commented on it, pausing it and sharing her thoughts on his words. In the end, she admitted she would never date him, as she was not at all interested in his personality. Javonaty later uploaded another video saying that he was in fact just hiping over Corie’s break up with Khalil, and didn’t mean it when he asked her to date him. Solluminati started his YouTube channel in 2012, and is in fact famous for his controversial videos and pranks. His channel has more than 1.35 million viewers.
Personal life, ex-boyfriend Khalil Underwood
Corie started dating Khalil in 2015, when she met him in Los Angeles. Both rising stars, they had a lot in common – they shared their dreams, life visions and both enjoyed eating snow crabs. They created their mutual channel “Khalil and Corie”, uploading vlogs about their daily life. Corie made many appearances in Khalil’s videos, but Khalil never showed up in hers. By the end of 2017, the couple had decided to break up. Corie and Khalil made a video entitled “WHY WE BROKE UP!!! | CRAB LEG & SHRIMP ALFREDO MUKBANG” in which they explained the reason of their breaking-up. They stated that they started fighting a lot, their attitude to each other changed, and it felt like they would be better apart. Corie also shared that Khalil always had something to say, wanting to have the last word, and she didn’t give him a chance to behave like that, fighting back and battling a lot.
On 2 January 2018 they posted a video in which they announced that they were starting their mutual channel all over again, removing all previous videos. However, they added one more video about their travelling experience on one of the islands in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and haven’t uploaded anything else on that channel. As of 2020, Corie remains single, but still does mutual videos with Khalil. The latter posted several fake news on having a new girlfriend, presenting his friend Ambrie, a rising K Pop singer, as his new belle, but it turned out to be a joke.
Who is Khalil Underwood?
Khalil Underwood was born on 29 August 1993, in New Jersey USA. He created his YouTube channel on 8 September 2017, before which he tried himself as an actor, voice actor and singer, however, his performing career didn’t develop as fast as he wanted it to.
He only appeared in the short video “I Don’t F*** You” by Big Sean Feat. E-40. He also signed a commercial contract with the clinic Bright Ocular, where he permanently changed his eye color, posting a video about his experience stating that he liked his natural eye color, but wanted it to pop up a little bit more, so his eyes are bright grey now.
Khalil released several music tracks, among them “All About You”, “Get Away” and “Be Mine”. As to his YouTube channel, it has almost 90,000 subscribers, and Khalil has posted more than 90 videos of himself eating various dishes, such as hamburgers from McDonalds and KFC, chicken nuggets and snow crab’s legs. While eating in front of the camera, he is reasoning about various life issues, or giving his opinion on the latest news from the world of celebrities and social media.
Hobbies, favorite things and interesting facts
- Corie cites Amber Rose as her biggest inspiration as a model.
- She is also motivated and inspired by music videos of Beyoncé, Rihanna and Zendaya.
- One of her favorite dishes is crab legs; she enjoys Mexican food.
- Her favorite color is pink.
- Corie’s dream destination that she hasn’t been to yet is Bora Bora.
- She likes drinking red wine and champagne.
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Appearance, clothing style
Corie has naturally curly black hair and bright hazel eyes. She is 5ft 2ins (1.57m) tall, weighs around 154lbs (70kgs), and her vital statistics are 36-25-37. Her passion for short tops uncovering her tummy played a bad joke with her; she was once followed by a stranger in the mall who eventually told her she had a very unique belly button – Corie was half scared half amazed by the weird compliment she got, but went away as soon as she could.
Net worth and salary
As of 2020, Corie’s net worth is reported to be around $600,000. As to her Instagram account, she earns up to $4,300 per sponsored post, and also benefits from her YouTube channel with more than $1,470 per month, with overall net worth of the channel at $65,000.