Table of Biography
Early Life and Childhood
Olga Kay was born on November 20, 1982, and she is currently 41 years old. She is originally from Crimea, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Moreover, her full name is Olga Sergeevna Karavaeva and her name is Russian is written as Ольга Сергеевна Караваева.
She has dual citizenship in both Russia and America. Likewise, She finalized her naturalization as an American citizen in March 2016, hence making her a citizen of America as well.
She has not shared much information regarding her parents, siblings, and other family details. Moreover, She also has not revealed much related to her educational journey. Moreover, she has cats named Mushka and Pishka and a dog named Roxy.
Caption: Olga posing for a photo in a childhood photograph. Source: Instagram
Career and Professional Life
Professionally, Olga is a multi-talented personality. She is famous as an internet celebrity/sensation, a performer, a writer, as well as an entrepreneur. She trained as a professional circus juggler in her youth. Later on, she focused on acting and video creation.
Then in the year 2006, she started her personal YouTube channel “OlgaKay”. She started by creating shows like Emo Girl and Olga Kay’s Show. She has a total of four Youtube channels and combining all of them, she had approximately a million subscribers by the year 2013.
Caption: Olga Kay appearing as a panelist at WEX-LA. Source: Instagram
Alongside, social media, she has also appeared in Web shows including MyMusic, Olga Kay’s Show, YouTube Assassin, Ladies of Rap, and Annoying Orange. Additionally, she had a small role opposite Christy Carlson Romano in the 2006 romantic comedy The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold. She has also hosted the Rogue Pictures Web show Tube Top. She has also collaborated with entertainers like Joe Nation and Shane Dawson.
In the year 2014, her YouTube channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels. On the list, her channel ranked at #47. The same year, she also launched her media and a retail company called “Moosh Walks”. She did this to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit in her female fan base.
The Beginning
She initially performed professionally with a circus in Moscow as a teenager. This was before she moved and settled in the United States to work with the Ringling Brothers Circus.
Around the year 2004, she acted and juggled in television shows such as CSI: NY and The Benvenuti Family after she had settled down in LA. She also started attending various YouTube events. She co-promoted her online videos with other YouTubers like Shay Carl, SxePhil, and CTFxC.
Business
She launched Moosh Walks. It is a media and retail brand aiming to empower young girls through storytelling, primarily about leadership. In the year 2014, she released her first character as a line of 3D socks.
The knee-high socks feature numerous character designs and external ears. She said she created socks with ears because she didn’t want to be another YouTuber with a logo on a T-shirt.
Moreover, she immediately recouped her initial investment in manufacturing the socks through a pre-order campaign. Moosh Walks was featured in the style lounge at the 2015 Emmy Awards.
As of January 2016, she had unisex socks and baby socks too. She was also developing pillows in collaboration with Throwboy. Then in 2017, she introduced a new sock character called Mushka. This character was based on her cat. In 2018, Amazon featured Moosh Walks as one of the top women-owned businesses.
Caption: Olga Kay posing for a photo at the FFC Workshop NYC. Source: Instagram
Youtube Channels
Then in 2006, she started her YouTube comedy channel “Olga Kay”. Then she created her second YouTube channel called “Olga Kay 2” in 2009. This channel focuses on behind-the-scenes videos. Some of her recurring shows include Olga Kay’s Show and Emo Girl. In the latter, she plays the role of a comedic emo version of herself known as Razor Blade.
She later created a third channel called “Olga Kay Games”. In this channel, she presents video games in a comedic way. Moreover, she also has a fourth Youtube channel called “Mooshville”. This channel focuses on fashion and beauty. The brand name “Moosh” stems from a nickname for her cat.
Furthermore, Mooshville features What’s in My Purse? filmed at the YouTube sound stage in Playa Vista, California. This also includes the Pajama Party show. It is a makeup review show that has had guests including Hannah Hart, Taryn Southern, and Shane Dawson among others. Moosh is also the name of a custom brand of shoes named Mooshoos.
As of July 2015, her four YouTube channels already had approximately 1.2 million subscribers. Moreover, she also started her successful series Will It Juggle? on 31 October 2015. She announced this news at the first annual Stream Con NYC.
Caption: Olga in a ‘Youtubers Reacts’ video. Source: Instagram
Collaborations
She has starred as herself in several documentaries and webisodes. Among them, one of them is the feature film Butterflies in 2009. Then in 2011, she had appearances in Shane Dawson TV, JoeNationTV, and The Annoying Orange.
The same year, she collaborated with Jack Douglass on the short comedy video “Olga Kay: How to Control Your Dreams!” She has also appeared in some of Your Grammar sucks videos by Jack Douglass.
In the year 2012, she also acted in YouTube’s original channel initiative show MyMusic as a raver character. She then hosted the Rogue Pictures web show Tube Top. This show is recognized as the top shows/videos on YouTube. Moreover, Toby Turner starred in a short with her entitled “Olga Kay Goes Haywire.”
She has also performed at VidCon. She was also interviewed in the podcasts New Mediacracy and Rhett and Link’s Ear Biscuits. Likewise, She has also worked with several brands including Microsoft, Ford, Google, Relativity Media, Axe, Capcom, Nintendo, Virgin Mobile, Xbox, and others.
Relationship Status
Olga might be single or in a relationship with someone. However since she has not shared much information regarding this issue nor shared social media posts related to this, there is no way to verify her relationship status. She has also maintained a clean public profile that is away from rumors, controversies, and scandals.
Olga Kay – Body Measurements
Olga stands tall at a height of approximately 1.55 meters or 5 feet and her weight is around 50 kgs. Other than this, there is no information regarding her other body measurement details including her dress size, shoe size, chest-waist-hip measures, etc. Moreover, she has brown hair and mesmerizing hazel eyes.
Olga Kay – Social Media
Talking about her social media presence, she joined Twitter in May 2008 and so far has more than 173K followers on her @OlgaKay account. She is also available on Instagram under the username @olgakay. This account boasts 6,266 post shares and over 106k followers at the time of writing this biography.
Net worth 2024
Olga’s estimated net worth is around $1 million- $5 million, as of 2024.