Ivana Santacruz (born January 23, 1996) is an Instagram star from Mexico who rose to fame by posting fashion, lifestyle, and dance photos/videos to her Instagram account. She has gone on to garner over 1.7 million followers on the platform.

Ivana Santacruz was born on January 23, 1996, in Puebla, Mexico to a Mexican mother and an Italian father. At the young age of five, she relocated with her mother and German stepfather to Germany where she was raised.

Ivana Santacruz is an Instagram star based in Germany whose dance and fitness related posts have earned her a following of over 1.7 million people on Instagram. She is mostly known for making her fitness sessions fun by introducing dance routines into them. In other to inspire others to do the same, she recently launched her own dance and fitness program named 'Sweat & Dance', which makes an offer of three 20-minute special dance sessions per week.

She also a YouTube channel with over 175k subscribers on it.

She signed a sponsorship deal with the international sports brand, PUMA, and often showcases their products on her feed.

Santacruz has her own clothing line available for sale via the NA-KD online fashion store.

Late in 2016, she was chosen as the German face for the promotion tour for 'Keeping up with the Kardashians',which is a popular reality television show. She attended the 'World Fitness Day' event in Frankfurt 2018.

Ivana was an athletic person as a child and trained in gymnastics, but an injury forced her to leave her professional sports ambitions.

Her love for music encouraged her to begin dancing when she was just 14.

She found interest in fitness when she visited a McFit gym at age 16.

Her first experience at the gym was really exhausting for her, but she continued her fitness journey and often combines it with dance moves.

She randomly began posting her own blend of fitness and dance videos on her Instagram in 2014, and her first video was performing a set to the tunes of 'One Drop' by QQ.

Her videos attracted an increasing number of fans, which made it all the more fun for her.

By the end of 2016, she had gained nearly 700k followers on Instagram and decided to focus more on her YouTube channel.

She rejoined YouTube in September 2014, but her first video was only uploaded in early 2016.

She became more active on YouTube before the end of 2017 and uploaded dance and workout videos, vlogs, Q&A's, room tour videos, unboxing, and more on her channel.

While her YouTube channel is still picking up, she made a name for herself as a fitness model on Instagram and launched her very own dance and fitness program.

She is well-versed in street-dance, she told NA-KD in 2018 that she finds modern dance very inspirational.

She also loves classical dance and had once gone to a ballet in New York City, even though she could not dance. She did an internship in graphics designing and feels that she would have chosen that profession if she had not found fame on Instagram. While she loves to show her creativity on Social media platforms, she is also interested in acting on stage, and loves photography as well.

Ivana Santacruz was born on January 23, 1996, in Puebla, Mexico to a Mexican mom and an Italian mom. At the age five, she moved with her mother and German stepdad to Germany where she was brought up. Apart from German, she speaks Spanish fluently because it is her mother's language. She is also able to speak in English, and while she also understands Italian, but cannot speak it fluently. She packed out of her parents' house after her 18th birthday, and is very proud of making it on her own. She is really close to her mother, who she considers as her best friend.

Ivana has been in a relationship with her fellow Instagram star and model Abbas Mourad since 2017.

They first got to know each other through Instagram and communicated through direct messages before finally meeting in person in Milan.

He is a fashion and style guru in his own right and has more than a million followers on his Instagram account. They have worked together for many modeling assignments and have travelled for the same, including to the US.

Though her current life revolves mostly around the internet, especially Instagram, she is a private person who loves to spend her time offline.

She also enjoys going to the movies rather than to clubs or parties, even though she admits that she partied a lot when she was in her late teens.

She loves having home-cooked meals but doesn't cook herself, and often depends on her mother or boyfriend for the same.

She is mostly vegetarian, but loves fish, especially shrimp and salmon.

Among all the countries that she has visited and lived in, she loves Germany the most because it is very organized and its people are punctual and disciplined. Ironically, she is admittedly a very messy person and cannot keep things organized.