Ellie Thumann Reveals Her Dream Collab with Iconic YouTuber

The model shared details about her early experience with the video platform during Miami Swim Week.

Ellie Thumann.Michael Ostuni/Getty Images

Miami Swim Week was replete with fun activity and celebration, including a series of games of giant Jenga during which SI Swimsuit models had the chance to get to know each other better.

A conversation between Sixtine and Ellie Thumann, particularly, revealed some of the interesting details about Thumann’s start as a YouTuber. Sixtine posed the question, “If you could collaborate with anyone in the world—a YouTuber—who would it be, and why?”

After hearing only the first part of the question—about a dream collaboration—Thumann thought she had the perfect answer. “I was going to say Taylor Swift,” before realizing the question was about a YouTube collab, the 2023 SI Swimsuit rookie admitted.

But in terms of a YouTuber she’d love to work with, Thumann didn’t have to think too hard about her answer either. “I feel like Bethany Mota because that was the first YouTuber I ever watched,” she said. “That would just be a nice full-circle [moment].”

After some prompting from fellow rookie Sixtine, Thumann admitted that Mota “absolutely” motivated her to start her own YouTube channel, which she created in 2014. “I had a fan page [for Mota], I had all of it,” she explained.

Her channel now boasts a total of 2.19 million subscribers, who follow her for her interesting lifestyle content, from vlogs from her travels to tidbits of her life in Charleston, S.C. 

“That would be a great full-circle moment,” Sixtine agreed with Thumann.

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