Biography
Karina Karambeybi is a popular blogger and YouTube star with a doll-like appearance. The girl’s bright and rapidly changing image attracted the attention of social network users, and when Karina became the official girlfriend of rap singer and beatmaker Slava Marlow, the number of Karambaby’s fans increased significantly.
Childhood and youth
The biography of nee Karina Egamemedieva began in Ufa. The future blogger, Gemini by zodiac sign, was born on June 21, 2001 and became the first of three children in the family. Karina’s two younger sisters are named Marianna and Veronica.
At first, the girl studied at a private Jewish school with a religious bias, where students were required to pray before and after meals. However, the parents, seeing that their daughter was drawn to art, transferred her to an art and aesthetic school. But Egamemedieva did not stay there too long, and a year later she transferred to the chemical and biological lyceum. However, the leapfrog with educational institutions did not end there – Karina received a certificate of secondary education at an architecture school.
The girl also dreamed of connecting her adult life with architecture, which her parents, of course, welcomed. They also did not criticize their daughter’s blogging activities.
As a child, Karina studied ballet, and at the age of 12, passionately wanting to achieve a model figure, she became ill with anorexia. Symptoms of an eating disorder haunted Egamedieva from 6th to 9th grade, and the high school student regularly reported on her struggle with the disease on social networks.
Blog
In 2018, Egamemedieva became the owner of her own channel, choosing a tasty nickname for herself – Karrambaby. One of the first videos was a sad story about how Karambeybi suffered anorexia. By luck, this video was included in the recommendations and by the evening the number of subscribers from 100 had grown to 6 thousand.
Soon, the positive blogger’s YouTube channel gained momentum, and Karina began experimenting with her hair, dyeing her hair blue, light green, purple and orange at lightning speed, and once became almost bald.
The anime fan made the right decision when she chose the image of a kawaii doll – winged hair, bright hairstyles and a pale face won due attention among the young audience, although she was not shy about going on air without makeup. In addition to experiments with bows, Karina touched upon the burning issues of youth, asking her followers for advice on where to go and how to choose a guy.
The most terrible moment, according to the young star, was when they began to recognize Karambaby at school and even tried to take a picture of him in the toilet.
After the video with Amina Mirzoeva, a wave of hate hit the girl, and Karina was very worried about this, but then she stopped reading the comments. And after participating in the Pink Sugar show, the blogger had to make excuses for giggling hysterically over the death of actor Cameron Boyce.
In 2019, Karambeybi was awarded a “silver button” from YouTube for the first 100 thousand subscribers, and then a “gold button” when their number exceeded a million.
In addition to the YouTube channel, the blogger regularly updates other social networks. On Instagram (the social network is banned in the Russian Federation, it belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation), the star publishes her own photos in bright images, and has also gathered a decent army of subscribers on TikTok.
2021 turned out to be a difficult year for the blogger, and mainly because in April the girl decided to admit what health problems she was experiencing. In a candid video, Karina said that she lied to subscribers that she had coped with an eating disorder and anorexia was left behind. As it turned out, for 3.5 years, Karambeybi, with a height of 172 cm, maintained a weight of 47 kg, while regularly drinking diuretic and laxative tablets, inducing vomiting and not eating anything, drinking only water.
The Tiktoker asked fans for forgiveness for the video about losing weight and spoke vividly about the consequences of the disease.
“My kidneys and liver have collapsed, my hair and nails are breaking, and my bones have become brittle. I take 20 tablets a day and eat water. And now I ask you to support me, because I’m tired of living like this, I want to go back, forgive me,” Karina begged, barely holding back hysterics.
In the same year, Karambaybi launched a joint collection with the decorative cosmetics brand “Beauty Bombs”, becoming the face of the brand. The new line of palettes and glitters was positioned as youth cosmetics sold on the Magnit chain, and the blogger, who loves bright looks, came in very handy for such a brand.
Personal life
With the growing popularity of Karrambaby, fans (and others) began to become interested in the personal life of the blogger, which the star usually talks about with reluctance. For example, in an interview with Pushka, Karina admitted that she had been dating a guy from her school for more than a year.
In 2021, the tiktoker’s name became a household name due to suspicions that the girl was dating popular rap artist Slava Marlow. The star starred in the musician’s video entitled “You Burn Like Fire,” from which fans of both celebrities were delighted. After that, the guys performed together on MUZ-TV, where Slava didn’t even try to get into the soundtrack, and Karina poured water from a canister from the stage.
In the summer, however, the girl was temporarily credited with an affair with Danya Milokhin. Karambaby began to appear often in the company of the blogger in stories, and Slava added fuel to the fire by publishing a photo of his girlfriend with his rival and accompanying the post with an emoticon in the form of a broken heart. But the alarm turned out to be false, Karina and Danya collaborated within the framework of Nastya Ivleeva’s project “Bloggers and Roads”.
In addition, fans actively shipped Karambeybi with another YouTuber – Bogdan Kirsa, known as Dankar. Fans even created a page on Instagram (the social network is banned in the Russian Federation; it belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation) to publish relevant fan fiction and memes.
As for the Karina-Slava couple, the young people began dating in February of the same year, but despite the fact that the lovers were regularly seen together, they did not comment on the relationship.
The speculation was confirmed in Yuri Dud’s show (by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation he was included in the register of mass media – “foreign agents”), where Slava confirmed his affair with the TikTok star in an interview and publicly confessed his love to his chosen one.
““I have bad news for you. I think I like you.” And she: “I have bad news for you too. It seems like you too.” And we sit and look at each other,” the singer said about his first confessions.
The girl has not yet thought about starting a family and children. And in January 2023, it became known that Marlow and Karambaby broke up. The blogger spoke about this in her Telegram channel, asking subscribers not to stir up a scandal over this event.
Karina Karambeybi now
In 2022, Karina did not delight the audience with frequent vlogs, but she filmed one of them together with her younger sister Veronica. The girls talked on camera about the most awkward situations that happened to them in their lives. In November, Karambeybi went on a long tour of the United States, promising subscribers to make a big video review about her journey.
In parallel with blogging, she was developing her own merch. Karina sold her clothes together with her colleagues on popular marketplaces.
Interesting Facts
- In the summer of 2019, a stir arose when Karambaby’s subscribers mistakenly decided that their idol had starred in the Little Big group’s video. In fact, it turned out that the musicians’ video and the message that Karina was robbed were simply announced at the same time. In three weeks, the video was viewed by 14 thousand subscribers.
- Karina once amazed fans with her talent as a parodist, naturally transforming herself into the rap artist Morgenstern (included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the list of individuals – “foreign agents”). She also cosplayed as Tatu and often dressed up as anime characters.
- Users scratched their heads, wondering what nationality the unusual girl belonged to, and came to the conclusion that, most likely, the TikToker was Tatar. It is known that Egamemedieva has Bashkir, Uzbek and Jewish roots.
- In 2019, Karambaybi disappeared from the radar and, as it turned out, had a great time in Iceland, climbing 2 volcanoes and visiting Game of Thrones filming locations.
- Karina did not intend to study music, assuring that she could not sing, but the blogger nevertheless recorded the composition in response to the haters, calling it “Ascorbinka.”