Lele Pons

About

Eleonora “Lele” Pons Maronese ( LEL-ay; born June 25, 1996) is a Venezuelan and American YouTuber, actress, and singer. She came to prominence on Vine before the platform was shut down in 2016 where she was the most followed woman and the third most followed Viner with 11.5 million followers. She then expanded into creating comedy sketches for YouTube, where she has over 18 million subscribers as of September 2025.
Pons has since acted in film, television, and music videos; released her own music; and co-authored a novel. In 2020, she starred in The Secret Life of Lele Pons, a YouTube Original docuseries providing a look at her personal life, and began hosting a podcast on Spotify called Best Kept Secrets with Lele Pons.

== Early life ==
Eleonora Pons Maronese was born in Caracas, the daughter of pediatrician Anna Maronese Pivetta and architect Luis Guillermo Pons Mendoza. When she was a child, her parents separated after her father realized that he was gay. She is of Spanish and Italian descent, and is the niece of Puerto Rican singer Chayanne. She moved to the U.S. at the age of five and was raised in Miami. She graduated from Miami Country Day School in 2015 and moved to Los Angeles…