Trisha Paytas

  Trisha Paytas ( born May 8, 1988) is an American YouTuber and singer. Paytas's YouTube channel consists of a wide variety of content including lifestyle-oriented vlogs, music videos, and mukbangs. As of July 2022, she has accumulated roughly 5.15 million subscribers and 1 billion lifetime views. She has co-hosted Frenemies with fellow YouTuber Ethan Klein. Additionally, Paytas has worked independently as a singer, releasing several records and singles, and appeared in television shows and films. Paytas was born on May 8, 1988, in Riverside, California. She has two siblings; an older brother and a younger, maternal half-sister. At 15, Paytas moved back to California to live with her father and brother, and was enrolled in a Catholic online school program. She returned to Illinois to live with her mother at age 16, attending high school in Pecatonica, Illinois. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, Paytas began doing professional lingerie modeling and worked as a stripper and an escort to support herself.She was featured on various television shows, attempting and failing to break the fastest-talker record on Guinness World Records Unleashed, and appearing on The Greg Behrendt Show.