How a friendless ‘loner’ grew to become a horny Insta-famous comedian

The glow-up is actual — and this buxom Insta-babe is out to show it.

Russian-born Mya Erlikh didn’t at all times have basketball-size breasts and round 1,000,000 followers on Instagram. In her native Moscow, the place the social media influencer and comedian lived till her household moved to the US when she was 9, she was only a skinny “loser” struggling to deal with abandonment.

“Once I was 5 years outdated my mom simply obtained up in the future and left,” Erlikh, 31, tells Jam Press. “My father needed to mainly increase me alone [until] he met my step-mom, once I was 11.”

Transferring to the States was notably exhausting on Erlikh since she spoke no English and was shunned by her friends: “It was a really exhausting transition going to highschool and never realizing the language.”

“I had [parents] inform their youngsters to not be buddies with me as a result of I’d inform them that I don’t communicate to my organic mom,” she explains, “and they might say, ‘What sort of individual doesn’t communicate to their mom?’ when in actuality she didn’t communicate to me.’ ”

At 15, Erlikh reunited along with her mom for the primary time since her mother walked out on the household a decade earlier than. The transient reunion would even be the final.

“She took me to a bar within the metropolis and informed everybody I used to be 21,” Erlikh claims.

“After that I informed my father I didn’t wish to see her once more,” she continues. “It was heartbreaking to satisfy somebody that’s presupposed to be so near you and you’re feeling nothing.”

Regardless of early hardships, Erlikh completed college and went on to turn out to be a profitable actual property agent, which earned her a secure life-style and a gradual paycheck. However she quickly realized that the nine-to-five grind wasn’t for her. That’s when she turned to Instagram for earnings.

“I used to be simply depressing doing [real estate],” she admits. “I took the prospect of creating much less cash, however to have the prospect to really be joyful, and I feel it’s the perfect resolution I ever made.”

Now, the real-estate-agent-cum-internet-hustler can rake in $1,000 per social media publish. Her non-public Instagram account, @damnhomie11, options Erlikh in boudoir-style photographs and boasts 969,000 followers. In the meantime, she makes use of her public account, @damn_homie — which has 541,000 followers — as a platform for her “if girls informed the reality”-brand of comedy. It often options Erlikh clad in bikinis.

“One of the best [comedy] comes from real-life experiences,” she says. “Consider essentially the most embarrassing factor that’s ever occurred to you: Placing it in a video is the perfect factor you might do.”

“However you might have to have the ability to chuckle at your self,” provides Erlikh, who now lives in Brooklyn. However comedy isn’t only a strategy to pay the payments.

“Once I used to undergo despair, I used to show to Instagram comedy as a method to deal with it,” she says. “You’d be shocked by how many individuals write to me telling me my movies assist them get via their day. It makes me really feel good that I can do for them what others have executed for me in my darkest occasions.”

However it’s not all laughs for the raunchy Russian Jew, who isn’t any stranger to hate speech on social media.

“The worst might be folks sending me swastikas and telling me all Jews must be useless,” she says.

She additionally not too long ago broke off an engagement — with a person who she says couldn’t settle for her life-style within the highlight.

“Everybody I’ve been with has at all times needed me to simply sit dwelling and come out youngsters. If I meet the proper individual I’d like to share a life with them, however I’d relatively be alone than be with somebody that doesn’t make me joyful,” she says.

To those that hope to observe in her unorthodox footsteps, Erlikh shares some recommendation: “Be unique — discover your individual model. One thing that hasn’t been executed but. Copying somebody won’t ever get you wherever.”