Eva Marisol Gutowski (also known as "MyLifeasEva") is an American

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influencer and actress with 11.4 million subscribers on Youtube. She graduated from

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. She also attended California State University at Fullerton. She was ranked #4 in '' Variety''s Famechangers Digital Star Ranking list. ''

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'' termed her YouTube's fastest growing star. She has also been included in ''

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''s Social Media Stars list. In mid 2016, she played herself but was titled as "The Journalist" in the first season of ''

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'' in a main role and returned briefly in the second season's pilot episode. She is the author of a lifestyle and advice book titled ''My Life as Eva: The Struggle is Real''. She also starred in a YouTube Red web series called ''Me and My Grandma'' that premiered on Gutowski's Youtube channel on March 22, 2017. In August 2017,

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announced that Gutowski would join the revamped ''

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'' as part of a rotating social media correspondent position alongside fellow YouTubers, Gabbie Hanna, and

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. In 2019, she appeared in a

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ad, protesting marine parks that keep mammals and other animals imprisoned in tanks. In 2020, she appeared in the "We the People" segment in the

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with her father.

Personal life

Gutowski is of African American, German, Irish, Polish, and Puerto Rican descent. Gutowski is

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and says she likes to do her own cooking because, "I know whatever I put into what I cook is healthy." In September 2016, Gutowski came out as bisexual and to her fans on her Twitter platform. She went on to say, “I am ready for myself to fall in love with someone, no matter who they end up being, and have been since I was 12. Boy or girl.” In August 2018, Gutowski announced on Twitter that her car got rear-ended by a woman

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. Eva said she wasn’t in the car, but the lady was sent to the hospital, and her car got fixed 3 months later. In 2021, Eva started releasing music under her middle name Marisol. Her first single was Hawaii.

Filmography

Bibliography

* ''My Life as Eva: The Struggle is Real''

References

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