
Speaking to Teen Vogue, Pons said, "I started with my friends, and I started becoming bad. She has said she used Vine to showcase the creative things she was already doing. Pons began her career on the video platform Vine. Pons has Tourette syndrome and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that." She said "I'm not like the cool girls-I'm the other girl. She has also said that she was bullied at high school. She has said that she had trouble making friends in high school, so she "would get hurt to make them laugh". She graduated from Miami Country Day School in 2015 and moved to Los Angeles, California. She moved to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Miami, Florida. Her father is of Catalan descent, and her mother is of Italian descent.

Early lifeĮleonora Pons Maronese was born on Jin Caracas, Venezuela, to Luis Guillermo Pons Mendoza, an architect, and Ana Maronese Pivetta, a pediatrician. Apart from social media, Pons has acted in film, television, and music videos, has released her own music, and co-authored a novel in 2016. She has since branched out, creating comedy sketches for YouTube, where, as of November 2020, has over 17 million subscribers.

Pons came to prominence on Vine before the platform shut down in 2016. She stars in The Secret Life of Lele Pons, a YouTube Original docuseries providing a look at her personal life, and hosts her own Spotify-exclusive podcast titled Best Kept Secrets with Lele Pons. Eleonora Pons Maronese (born June 25, 1996), known professionally as Lele Pons, is a Venezuelan-American Internet celebrity, YouTuber, singer, and actress.
