Katya Elise Henry
Katya Elise Henry
Katya Elise Henry is an American Fitness Model, Personal Trainer, and Social Media Personality. She is based in Miami, FL.
Early Life & Education
By the beach
Katya is originally from Minneapolis, MN and has two older sisters. Katya is "half black, half white, part Native American, and a little bit of Russian." She went to three different high schools in Minnesota and Arizona. Katya was bullied a lot during her freshman and sophomore years, causing her to transfer multiple times. Later in her academic career, Katya transferred to Desert Mountain High School where she had her most positive experience and was a cheerleader. She became captain of her cheerleading squad her senior year.
Career
Dressed as Dora the Explorer
When she stopped cheerleading, she began to notice herself losing muscle.
Katya began to go to the gym with her mom, would film her workouts, and post them to Instagram. She began to gain a large following and as of July 2020 has over 7.6 million followers on the platform. In addition, Katya has 397,000 followers on Twitter, and over 377,000 followers on YouTube. Before she became a notable social media personality, Katya was working full-time as a nanny. One of her inspirations to start being a fitness model was Jen Selter.
Katya is a plant-based fitness model and refrains from consuming meat products.
She is sponsored by EHPLabs and regularly posts pictures with their products and clothing on her Instagram.
She is also sponsored by a number of smaller brands.
Katya offers workout programs to clients, her most popular being the 8 week booty building program.
She also sells merch at shopkatya.com which features prints and shirts of Katya modeling.
Personal Life
In her free time, Katya enjoys going to the beach and hanging out with friends.
Her favorite TV Show is Big Brother. Katya has seven tattoos.
As of July 2020, Henry is dating an NBA player, Tyler Herro. Previously, she dated Los Angeles Lakers's Kyle Kuzma.[12][38]
In 2018, Henry told Vegan-magazine.com when she chose to become vegan and why she chose to transition to a plant based lifestyle:
My sister Tanaya had a pretty big influence on my decision to try it out; she has definitely flourished since going plant-based and this is what initially generated my curiosity.
I also wanted to see how it would affect my training and physique.
There are a lot of people out there who say you can’t gain muscle on a plant-based diet, so I was interested in finding out for myself if this theory held any water.
Since switching to a plant-based diet, I have gained muscle mass and am living my beliefs that we should be living in harmony with animals, rather than at their expense.
It’s been uplifting to take real action in a way that could make a difference in relation to animal welfare.
It’s been almost 2 years now and I really don’t see myself going back to my old lifestyle.[39]