TikTok Star Khaby Lame Age, Net Worth, Career, Family, Girlfriend & Biography

Who is Khaby Lame? What is Khaby’s Age, Net Worth, Career, Family, and Girlfriend? We take a look at the Biography of Khaby Lame.

Who is Khaby Lame?

Khaby Lame is TikToker, YouTuber, Instagrammer, and social media personality popularly known for making short comedy skits pointing out people who complicate simple tasks.

Khaby Lame Biography. ( Real Name, Age, and Place of Birth)

Khaby Lame’s real name is Khabane Khaby Lame. Khaby is just his middle name. He was born on 9 March 2000 and he is 22 Years Old as of 2022.
He was born and raised in a well-settled Muslim family from Senegal, West Africa hence has his belief in the Islamic religion. Khaby and his parent moved from Senegal to Italy for greener pastures. He spent most of his childhood in a public housing complex in Chivasso, Italy.

EDUCATION

Khaby Lame completed his early schooling at a Local High School in Chivasso, Italy. When he was fourteen, his parent when his parents decided to send him to study temporarily in a Quranic school near Dakar.
During his time in high school, Khaby Lame took up part-time jobs as a high school student. He did this to earn money to provide for his needs and relieve his parents of the burden of catering to all his wants and needs.
After graduating from high school, he entered the workforce full-time instead of pursuing a university education. This was because he couldn’t afford the cost of schooling at Italy’s public or private universities.
Since childhood, he has had an interest in sports and used to play basketball and football for his school team. He has also participated in the junior-level basketball championships.

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Khaby Lame Before the Fame

Before his fame, Khaby Lame worked as CNC Machine Operator in a factory situated close to Turin. However, due to the global pandemic, he was sacked from his job in March 2020 and became unemployed.

Khaby Lame when he started posting videos on Tik Tok (Career)

After he was laid off from work during the COVID-19 pandemic, Khaby began posting videos on  TikTok just so he doesn’t get bored at home.
The early videos he made showed him dancing and playing video games in his apartment and the videos were often filmed in Italian, but he included Italian subtitles. As he advanced in his budding content creator, he decided to metamorphose. The internet became fully aware of his creativity by creating pictures, gifs, and videos used for memes.
So he started creating videos that depicted complicated life hacks and showed him performing the same task more easily. More so, he didn’t utter a word during the video and spiced it up with a humorous facial expression
Khaby Lame‘s videos went viral on TikTok and were shared across other social media apps, helping to increase his popularity. In a matter of weeks, millions of people had started to follow him on TikTok and Instagram. This was because they loved his videos, which were simple and funny at the same time.
In April 2021, he surpassed Gianluca Vacchi as the most-followed Italian TikToker, and, in July 2021, he surpassed Addison Rae and Charli D’Amelio to become the most-followed TikToker in the world.
In August 2021, Khaby Lame appeared as a Co-Star in the unveiling ceremony of Juventus FC’s latest signee, Manuel Locatelli. He bagged a multi-year partnership deal with Hugo Boss in January 2022.

Personal Life Of Lame

Lame was born in Dakar to Mr. and Mrs. Lame. However, when he turned one, his parents decided to migrate out of Africa to Europe in search of greener pastures.
Khaby Lame has three siblings.
Khaby is not single. The TikToker is engaged to Zaira Nucci a local girl from Sciacca in the year 2020.
He lived with his agent as an expatriate. He only holds Senegalese citizenship and up until August 2022, he became an Italian citizen in Chivasso, after the Italian Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior Carlo Sibilia announced that he would be granted citizenship.
Lame in an interview said he “always felt Italian”, and he previously stated that he “did not need a piece of paper” to define himself as such.
Khaby Lame Net Worth
Khaby Lame‘s net worth is estimated to be worth $15 Million. He has been able to monetize his career. He makes a lot of money off brand partnerships and endorsement deals.