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The influencer Léna Situations has her statue at the Grévin museum, visible from December 4, 2024.
CULTURE – A new recognition for the influencer. Léna Mahfouf, known as “Léna Situations” on social networks, announced this Tuesday, December 3 to her 11 million subscribers the arrival of her wax statue at the Grévin museum. It will be on display from Wednesday.
As a showmanship queen, the influencer used her social networks to reveal her statue to her loved ones and subscribers. She has posted several stories in recent days worrying about the disappearance of her iconic office. “Where is he?” »she kept asking. She finally revealed where he was in a YouTube video recorded on his birthday in mid-November and posted this Tuesday, which you can see above.
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The video begins far from her office, since Léna Situations announces a hide-and-seek with her friends in the Grévin museum. During a game, all participants meet in the museum theater. Once all his loved ones were gathered, the curtain rose to reveal his statue posing next to his desk, triggering the shock of his loved ones.
“You are now immortal”
A ceremony also took place this Tuesday at the museum. “I never imagined that by making YouTube videos in my room, I would have ended up here”launched the content creator near her statue, curly hair and gray suit. She is the second personality, and the first woman, from an Internet world to join the collection of the Parisian museum, two years after Lucas Hauchard, alias Squeezie, France's second YouTuber.
“It’s a profession where we are told so often that it is ephemeral that the first thing they said to me when I arrived at Grévin was “welcome, you are now immortal!” » she declared, adding that “It was pretty powerful for a small content creator. »Swe companion Sébastien Frit, « Seb » on YouTube(5.6 million subscribers) or the creator of the talk show Zen on Twitch Maxime Biaggi were present.
Created in six months by sculptor Laurent Mallamaci, the statue bearing his likeness will join fashion figures such as Gabrielle Chanel, Ines de la Fressange, Chantal Thomass and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Known for her August vlogs
Léna Mahfouf, 27, is the first French influencer to be invited to the MET Gala in New York. A consecration for this fashion enthusiast who launched her brand “Hotel Mahfouf” in 2022, and pieces from his own collection « Le Dressing » dress his double in wax. “It was important to me to be able to dress myself”she said.
She became known from the mid-2010s on YouTube and Instagram with her summer videos – her “August vlogs” – filmed with camera in hand, with energetic homemade editing and claimed authenticity.
With 4.7 million subscribers on Instagram, 3.4 million on TikTok and 2.9 million on YouTube, he is one of the most followed internet personalities in France. She also hosts the podcast “6-seater sofa” on the audio streaming platform Spotify, where she received personalities such as fashion popess Anna Wintour and American stars Pharrell Williams and Billie Eilish.
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