TextAlex Peters
NikkieTutorials: Layers Of Me is an intimate glimpse into an eventful few years for the beauty influencer as she has navigated success, death, and coming out
Over the past few years, viewers’ appetites for the private lives of their entertainers has grown endless and insatiable and those people willing to grant access have reaped the rewards.
The power of the social media influencer has always rested in their ability to make followers feel close to them, to feel as if they are friends, to give just enough of a glimpse into their lives that you feel as if you are a part of it. And the more of a glimpse the audience gets, the more it demands. Multi-part documentaries on the lives of social media stars like Jake Paul, Tana Mongeau, and Jeffree Star get views in the hundred
NikkieTutorials To Lift Veil On Personal Turmoil, Triumphs In New YouTube Docuseries
YouTube Originals has turned its documentary lens on Dutch beauty phenom
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YouTube’s latest four-part docuseries is titled
NikkieTutorials: Layers Of Me, and will lift the veil on de Jager’s YouTube persona, having been filmed over the last two-and-a-half years. De Jager has been on YouTube since 2008, but, until recently, has been intensely private about her personal life.
The series will chronicle how de Jager, 22, navigates fame, as well as the personal challenges she’s endured, including childhood bullying, the loss of her brother to cancer, and coming out as transwoman in order to thwart an apparent blackmail attempt in January as well as the event’s that followed. In yet another traumatic turn, de Jager was robbed at gunpoint in her Netherlands home in August. The series will also cover de Jager’s relationship with her fiance,
YouTube Originals Announces NikkieTutorials: Layers of Me Premiering December 28
The four-part docuseries was filmed over the last 2.5 years, following Nikkie through the biggest moments of her off-camera career and opening up about the challenges of navigating fame.
[via press release from YouTube]
YOUTUBE ORIGINALS ANNOUNCES NIKKIETUTORIALS: LAYERS OF ME PREMIERING DECEMBER 28
FOUR-PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES UNVEILS A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN LOOK INTO THE BEAUTY MOGUL S PRIVATE LIFE
WHAT:
Today, YouTube Originals announced NikkieTutorials: Layers of Me, a brand-new documentary series giving fans a peek behind the curtain of Dutch born beauty mogul Nikkie de Jager s private life. The four-part docuseries was filmed over the last 2.5 years, following Nikkie through the biggest moments of her off-camera career and opening up about the challenges of navigating fame. From talking about the cruel bullying she endured as a child, to experiencing the painful loss of her brother to ca