Who is YouTuber Taylor R?
Taylor R was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada, on 14 December 1988 – her zodiac sign is Sagittarius and she holds Canadian nationality. She is a model, social media star and a YouTuber, perhaps best known for her eponymous channel which she launched on 13 April 2012, although she didn’t start uploading videos until two years later. There are around 1.14 million people subscribed to the channel, and it counts nearly 150 million views of all Taylor’s videos combined.
She mostly uploads videos taken during her everyday life and in these videos, she usually gives her fans advice regarding make-up, clothes and diets – two of her most popular videos are “My Bedroom Tour ♡私のルームツアー♡ 我的房間” which has been viewed over 8.2 million times since it was uploaded on 26 January 2015, and “I Wore Kendall Jenner’s Boots For A Day” which has been seen over 5.7 million times since 17 May 2017.
Early life and education
Taylor was raised alongside her younger sister Carly in Toronto, by their father who was a businessman, and their mother who was a doctor – motivated by her mother, Carly entered medical school, and is today a nurse.
Taylor grew up wanting to become a model, and was encouraged by both her parents and her friends at school to start attending auditions and beauty pageants. However, she remained focused on her studies, and playing various sports at her high school such as soccer and tennis.
She also did a bit of acting as she was a member of her school’s drama club, and upon matriculation in 2006, Taylor decided to move to Hong Kong in China after she was invited to sign a contract with the modelling agency Satoru Japan.
Taylor’s career
Taylor has been signed to Satoru for over 10 years now, and has posed for many popular brands such as Zara and Mango – many pictures taken during her photoshoots can be found uploaded onto her Instagram account.
Taylor is very active on Instagram where she goes by the name ‘taytay_xx’, and there are nearly 400,000 people following her, while she’s uploaded over 1,800 pictures onto her account, often featuring her friends. There are almost 50,000 people following her Twitter account, on which she tries to tweet every day, and she is also active on Facebook, and has gathered over 350,000 likes.
Taylor is perhaps mostly focused on her TikTok account on which she has gathered around 115,000 followers and more than 1.5 million likes of all her videos combined.
This new song by @bts_bighit makes me so happy! I couldn’t wait to throw on some colourful retro inspired outfits & dance ?? #dynamite #bts #btsdynamite credit: Navarose (TikTok) pic.twitter.com/237oltz4aL
— Taylor R (@iamtay_tay) August 28, 2020
TikTok is a short video sharing service onto which people mostly upload comedy videos, however, Taylor prefers to videos related to fashion.
Husband Tom
Taylor met her Asian boyfriend Tom Lip in the early 2010s, when they were introduced by a mutual friend at a party, and the two started dating a week later. They were together for several years before Tom proposed in June 2018, and the video of his proposal can be found uploaded onto Taylor’s YouTube channel – they married two months later.
Tom is the owner of the website MenClub, which appears to be a website for men in Hong Kong, however, there has been some controversy regarding Taylor’s husband’s job. Apparently, Taylor’s fans have found out that there is a section in her husband’s website called ‘under 18’, a part which reads ‘Schoolgirls that we fxxed” and a strange ‘private zone’. Tom tried to address the rumors on Instagram, but quickly deleted his replies – Taylor hasn’t commented on the matter.
As of September 2020, Taylor is married to Tom Lip, and they don’t have children together.
Hobbies and other interests
Taylor is a huge lover of animals with dogs being her favorites, and she has a pet dog which can often be seen featured in her pictures on Instagram.
Her favorite season is summer, as she likes to relax at the beach, swim in the sea and sun tan. Taylor is also a fan of travelling and has been to many Asian countries including Japan and Vietnam, and she has also visited some of the most popular European cities including Paris in France and Venice in Italy.
She is physically very active as she has three to four training sessions at the gym each week, and she is also following a strict diet meaning that Taylor mostly eats fruits and vegetables.
In her free time, she likes to watch Hollywood movies starring some of her favorite actors Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, such as “Sleepless in Seattle”, “Titanic” and “Good Will Hunting”.
Net worth and age
Taylor’s age is 31. She has long dark blonde hair and brown eyes, her height is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) and she weighs around 135lbs (61kgs) – her vital statistics are 33-23-34.
As of September 2020, Taylor’s net worth has been estimated at over $300,000.