Julia Gilas

There are conflicting reports on her marital status. While some sources say that she is married, others state that she isn’t. She presently resides in San Diego, California and has a pet squirrel, a long-haired Chihuahua, Tyson, and a Himalayan cat, Tazo.

Julia Gilas was born on December 15, 1984 in Ukraine in a blue-collar family. Gilas has a sister named Halen. Despite growing up in the harsh conditions of Ukraine with its frigid cold winters and hot and humid summers, she had a relatively normal childhood. While her family lacked many things, including a few essentials, it did not matter a lot. According to Gilas, as a child, she did not notice these missing things. She played on the streets, rode her bicycle, and spent time with her friends in the neighbourhood.

She was not a good student and disliked going to school. She often felt trapped in her small city in Ukraine and wanted to leave one day and travel. When she turned 14, she joined a modelling school. This was one of the most significant events of her life. While she had harboured dreams of being part of the fashion industry for a long while, she had always questioned how realistic they were. Her time in the modelling school affected her positively and gave her the confidence to pursue modelling as a profession.

Julia Gilas left home at 16 to pursue her dreams. She worked hard and believed in a simple philosophy: “Take responsibility for yourself and your actions, and don’t expect anything from anyone.” In the subsequent years, she rose through the ranks in the incredibly competitive fashion industry. She travelled all across Europe, participated in fashion shows and posed for photo shoots. She states that modelling did not pay much but she was getting a practical education. She even learned how to speak English. In 2010, she made another life-changing decision and relocated to the US. Three years later, in 2013, she formally became a US citizen.

As she grew older, she began to understand the negative aspects of modelling. It is a gruelling profession that results in several health issues in the long run. She realized that most models led a very unhealthy life marked by heavy consumption of junk food and energy drinks. She did not want to be like that and desperately sought a way out.

Gilas did her research and read all the content she could get on healthy living. She realised that she was not healthy herself as she was eating poorly and not going to the gym. She started doing exercises, focusing more on developing her muscles. She created a Facebook page, an Instagram account, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel and began posting content on fitness and modelling. Besides having five million followers on Instagram, she has over eight thousand followers on Twitter, four thousand subscribers on YouTube, and 2.5 million followers on Facebook. She has even set up a website.

Recently, she set her Instagram profile to private. She is apparently protecting her page from fake and spam accounts. She is also blocking every Instagram account without a profile picture.

She owns a hair extension company that she has been running for the last ten years. Gilas is sponsored by Lord Timepieces, a London-based watch manufacturing company.