Emma Ellingsen

Emma Ellingsen
Ellingsen in 2019
Born (2001-09-09) 9 September 2001
Tønsberg, Norway
Modeling information
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorBlue
AgencyTeam Models
YouTube information
Channel
Genres
Subscribers455 thousand
Views33.8 million
Last updated: 12 November 2025

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]

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

References

  1. ↑ Nye, Elen Kristvik Det (4 May 2019). "50 spørsmål med Emma Ellingsen: - Det blir kanskje litt vanskeligere for meg å få kjæreste". www.klikk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. ↑ GLOWY SUMMER MAKEUP LOOK // EMMA ELLINGSEN, August 2017, retrieved 13 October 2021
  3. ↑ "Team Models". Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Emma Ellingsen, Norway's Rising Kendall Jenner, Wants You to Know That She's Transgender". Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "YouTube Star Emma Ellingsen Comes Out As Transgender". 3 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Onedio.com. "Dünyanın En Güzel Trans Bireyi Olarak Gösterilen Norveçli Model Emma Ellingsen".
  7. 1 2 "Norwegian Model Emma Ellingsen On Discovering Her Identity – L'Officiel". www.lofficielusa.com. 17 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "You are guaranteed to hear more from these talents". 23 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "emma the vampire slayer (@emmaellingsenn) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  10. ↑ "Emma Ellingsen on TikTok". TikTok. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "Tvillingbrødre ble bror og søster".
  12. ↑ "- Jeg så ikke på meg selv som et forbilde". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 18 December 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  13. ↑ Eckardt, Stephanie (17 September 2018). "Norway's Rising Kendall Jenner Wants You to Know That She's Transgender".
  14. ↑ "Rising Norwegian Star Emma Ellingsen Poses For Asa Tallgard In ELLE Norway June 2019". Anne of Caversville. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  15. ↑ NA-KD. "Emma Ellingsen Plays: "Name That 90's Thing"". YouTube.
  16. ↑ "Emma Ellingsen x NA-KD". www.na-kd.comwww.na-kd.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  17. ↑ "Tre Bloggerne-profiler gir seg". 12 June 2020.
  18. ↑ "Åpner seg om inngrepet". October 2020.
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