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Emma Chamberlain

Emma Chamberlain

American Influencer

Jul 21, 2026

10:17
... and paint the picture of how this all started.
10:19
Well, it really started when I started my YouTube channel when I was 16.
10:24
I was just filming my, my, my normal daily life as a 16-year-old, vlogging, if you will.
10:30
And a big part of my life at the time was drinking a lot of coffee.
10:34
I had a lot of homework, and I was a very ambitious student, and so I, I didn't sleep much and I needed it, and it became a part of my content very naturally, me making coffee, me drinking coffee.
10:46
I became known as the, the coffee girl.
10:48
And when, you know, YouTube ultimately became successful for me, I ended up graduating school early.

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48:07
Mm.
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17:45
Yeah, I care.
17:45
Thank you.
17:46
I think that [sighs] it's tricky because, like, for me, like, the way that I look at Fashion Week is it's such a novelty experience for me every single time.
17:59
And it's something that I'm so grateful I get to do because it, it isn't, how do I put this? It isn't necessarily necessary for me to attend, right?

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31:35
Mm-hmm.
31:35
However, I do still feel ...
31:38
It- it's one of those things where, like, I really want to evolve it.
31:41
I feel, like, really inspired by, like, what, how can I improve this? I think my greatest anxiety is it's so short.
30:26
Yeah.
30:26
You know what I mean? If I went and address every fucking rumor or every fake blah, blah, blah, blah, blah about me, you know, I wouldn't...
30:33
That would be actually my full-time job.
30:35
So, like, I can't do it.
30:38
And so it's just, like, this process of trying to figure out, like, you know, like, I just feel so out of control of the public perception of me because somebody could go and lie about me tomorrow.
30:53
And you know what? The other thing is, I don't...
30:55
Like, let's say I did do something fucked up.

10 MINS LATER

41:19
[sighs]
9:49
[laughs]
9:49
No, um, when I was five, my parents got divorced and my mom moved, like, 20 minutes away from my dad.
9:55
And that was actually not a super bad experience, 'cause I was so young that I just didn't really know any better.
10:00
I was definitely a really bored kid, 'cause I was an only child, and, like, my parents were both, like, fully working parents.
10:06
And so I had a lot of time by myself, and I was very bored a lot of the time [laughs] which I think is good.
10:16
In retrospect, I think it was good because it made me a lot more curious, I would say, 'cause I didn't have a lot of distractions.
10:23
You know, it's the Silicon Valley.

32 MINS LATER

42:05
... why did you drop out of high school?

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