Jenna Marbles

Biography

Jenna Nicole Mourey (born September 15, 1986), better known as Jenna Marbles, is an American former YouTuber. Over the span of ten years, her YouTube channel has accumulated approximately 1.7 billion video views and over 20 million subscribers.

Jenna Nicole Mourey was born on September 15, 1986, in Rochester, New York, where she was also raised. She then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Suffolk University and a Master of Education in sport psychology and Counseling at Boston University.

Among the first of Marbles' videos to gain traction on the platform, "How to Trick People into Thinking You're Good Looking", released in 2010, was viewed around 5.3 million times in its first week.

Her video "How to Avoid Talking to People You Don't Want to Talk To" was featured in The New York Times and ABC News in August 2011. In the video, she said, “I'm sick and tired of guys thinking that just because I showed up at a club or a dance or a bar I want to have their genitalia touching my backside.”

In April 2021, Marbles became engaged to long-time partner Julien Solomita. They married in November 2022. In January 2023, Marbles and Solomita had an incident at their home where an intruder broke in, was subdued with pepper spray, and arrested.