Gregory Allan Lazzarato was born on 20 April 1992 in Montreal, Quebec Canada, to David and Judith Lazzarato, and into a family of mixed Italian, Lebanese and French ancestry. She is best known as Gigi Gorgeous, a YouTube content creator, actress and model who is famous for her channel, Gigi Gorgeous, on which she has more than 2.7 million subscribers as of today, and is widely recognized as one of the main spokespeople of the transgender community.
So just how rich is Gigi Lazzarato as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, this YouTube personality has net worth of over $2 million, with her annual earnings being estimated around $1.3 million. Gigi’s wealth is accumulated from her nine years-long career in the previously mentioned fields. Being a YouTuber, Lazzarato earns money every time an ad is displayed in one of her videos, which promotes content and collaborates with various companies.
Gigi Lazzarato Net Worth $1.3 million
Lazzarato was raised in Roman Catholic tradition and studied at St. Francis of Assisi School and subsequently attended Mississauga’s Iona Catholic Secondary School, after which she enrolled into George Brown College, where she studied fashion. Gigi was interested in fashion and beauty from an early age, and started her channel on YouTube covering the previously mentioned topics.
She uploaded her first video in August 2008, and presented it as Gregory Gorgeous, which was prior to her gender transition; the previously mentioned video has more than 1.1 million views as of today. She then uploaded a series of videos about her hair care in the upcoming period, and was the time when Gigi identified as a gay male. However, as we move forwards in her career, Lazzarato started uploading videos about other topics, such as her daily life, fashion, and lifestyle, enlarging her audience.
She continued working at a fast pace, and in January 2015 hit a huge milestone as her subscriber count hit a million people, and in addition, her videos at that time were viewed more than 130 million times overall. Gigi made a big step when she announced that she would create a reality television series based on YouTube and entitled ‘’ The Avenue’’. The series debuted in March 2011, and aired until April 2013, despite receiving a negative response from critics. Lazzarato also worked on other television projects, most importantly on ‘’Project Runway: All Stars’’ and ‘’Celebrity Style Story’’, appearing in 13 episodes of the latter. Gigi’s efforts were recognized as she received the LogoTV Trailblazing Social Creator Award for the efforts she made as an advocate of young LGBT people.
She remains one of the most important contemporary celebrities to address the issues of the LGBT youth and her transition story was featured in the film ‘’The Trans List’’. As of 2017, the documentary movie ‘’ This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous’’, based on her life was released, distributed by SelectNext. In addition to Gigi’s appearance in it, it also stars Cory Binney and Scott Fisher, and won two awards: the MTV Movie + TV Award for Best Documentary and the Critics’ Choice Documentary Award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary, in addition to earning two nominations.
Speaking about her acting projects, her most prominent roles have included as Amber in ‘’I Hate Myselfie’’ and its sequel ‘’I Hate Myselfie 2’’, both in 2015.
When it comes to Gigi’s private life, she had her gender transition surgery in 2013. She had identified as gay, later on as a bisexual and most importantly, identifies as a lesbian as of today. She is now dating Natalia Williams, the heiress of the Getty family.
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