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= Miss Remi Ashten = Remi Cruz (born February 7th, 1995), known professionally as Miss Remi Ashten, is an American-born YouTuber personality, entrepreneur, and podcast host. Across all of her active social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, she has amassed a collective following of 5 million. She is well recognized in the social media influencer realm as her bubbly personality, cooking videos, beauty guru tutorials helped launch her into notoriety.

Early Life
Before fame, Ashten lived with her parents and younger brother, Shane Cruz. She had a quiet childhood where she spent most of her time participating in dance competitions until her later teen years.

Ashten went on to study Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where she joined Delta Gamma sorority. As she juggled schooling and her online persona, she found that her true passion was content creation, so she decided to drop out and pursue her professional growth. In 2012, Ashten decided to launch a YouTube channel where she would post beauty and style tutorials as a way to have an authentic creative outlet.

'MissRemiAshten' - Primary channel
In the early stages of Ashten's YouTube channel, she focused on producing fun, light-hearted videos that were geared towards teens, such as personal morning and night routines, affordable DIYs, and dance choreography, most notably for the songs 'Shout Out To My Ex' by Little Mix and 'I'm The ONE' by DJ Khaled. As of currently, the 'MissRemiAshten' channel has 2.52 million subscribers.

'RemLife' - Secondary Channel
A year after Ashten created her main YouTube channel, she decided to create a more personal account where she could be less scripted and more vulnerable with her fans. 'RemLife' gives Ashten the opportunity to share her life with her followers on a day to day basis .At present, 'RemLife' has a following of 1.44 million.

Cooking & Fitness Content
After years of contributing to the beauty and creative space, Ashten shifted her attention to surround her health and wellness journey. She then created, Cooking With Remi, a free program to provide healthy alternatives to unhealthy cravings. The program includes easy-to-follow recipes, recent press that she has taken part in, as well as links to her recommended cooking tools.

Ashten has openly admitted that she had struggled with her weight growing up, but through proper diet and exercise she was able to lose 50lbs in 3 months when she was 23 years old. She shared her fitness transformation with her fans through regular updates and videos of what she would eat in a day. She found that drinking lots of water, prioritizing protein consumption, and eating food that was low in calories worked best for her.

Pretty Basic Podcast
Ashten hosts a podcast with lifelong friend, Alisha Marie called Pretty Basic. She and her co-host use the platform to discuss their experience as influencers and also interview other personalities like Brittany Broski, Drew Afualo, Kelsey Kreppel and Madison Beer.

The podcast debuted at number 1 on the Apple Podcast cart and continues to release new episodes every Wednesday streamed through YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Honey Pop Skincare
In 2018, Ashten partnered up with Matchfire, a digital marketing and media agency to launch a skincare line Honey Pop. Ashten aims to be very open with her acne struggles and saw this entreprenurial pursuit as an opportunity to assist others who were feeling insecure. The skincare kit is priced at $34.50 and contains a mud mask, depuffing eye serum, acne treatment and an exfoliating jelly.

Upon release, the products were in high demand and had sold out by the 10th day. She had reported that they've had to restock numerous times to keep up with how fast they were selling. Ashten attributes a lot of the company's success to Matchfire as they managed the social media promotions, photo shoots, website design and development, while she was responsible for being the face of the company and creating her ideal brand image.

Awards
Ashtens efforts to create unique entertainment has not gone unnoticed throughout the years, as her talent has landed her the following awards...


 * Pretty Basic won the 2021 Webby Award for Best Lifestyle Podcast
 * Received Creator Honor at 2021 Streamy Awards