Natalia Taylor is a social media celebrity and model who has made a name for herself on YouTube, thanks to her storytelling channel as well as Instagram where she has a lot of followers. Away from social media, she is also popular in the media due to some of the stories she has shared, including one in which she allegedly was kidnapped by her father when she was little. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
Natalia Taylor Biography, Age
On June 26, 1996, the handsome model was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Even though she became popular as Natalia, she revealed that she was actually born as Ashley but her name was changed due to some of the things she went through when she was child.
She was primarily raised by her mother as a single child after her parents separated when she was just 7 years old. The cause of the divorce was her father’s physical and emotional abusive tendencies towards her mother which forced her to seek an order that would prevent him from near her and her daughter. after they finally divorced.
For her education, in 2016, she was a freshman at the University of Cincinnati where she majored in nuclear medicine.
As pointed out, what made her famous was her life as a YouTuber which gave her the platform to tell her stories. She started the channel, Storytime, in 2015. By 2018, she had already had over 700,000 followers and over 10 million views.
Abduction story
Natalia Taylor is a YouTuber with many stories, but the one that caught everyone’s attention was her kidnapping story which she also shared on her channel. According to the Cincinnati native, when she was 7, she was kidnapped by her father, Rod, who was mentally ill.
In the nearly 40-minute video she made to celebrate her milestone of reaching as many as 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, she revealed that her father had, at the time, been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and his mother had filed for divorce from him following domestic violence.
At the time, she was with her relatives when father came to pick her up. He ran from the house with her in his arms while his uncle and aunt screamed as they couldn’t stop the 6ft 7in man. He then threw her in his red van and drove off. What she thought was that he was taking her for her birthday, but then he kept driving for hours. Recalling the events of 2014, the model added that Rod told her he was Jesus and wanted to take them both to heaven.
The police were quickly informed and an orange alert was issued. Eventually the police caught up to them, but Rod was unwilling to stop, leading to the police getting into their car, swerving it off the road. Weapons were found in the car after it fell off the road and her father was arrested. By then, she had already been missing for over 17 hours.
To give credence to her story, Natalie Taylor shared a photo of a man she claimed was Rod, as well as photos of his house after his mother left him.
The video garnered over 2 million views before it was taken down, presumably to protect his identity. It’s because she said she had to change her name so her dad couldn’t find her. Interestingly, before the video, she made another video, daring Rod to come get her.
Modeling career
In addition to making a name for herself on YouTube, Natalia is also a model. It’s something she’s wanted to be since she was much younger. In fact, she was a model before she even made a name for herself as a YouTuber.
Looking at her journey so far, it was her grandmother who first helped her enter her first competition as a model. More so, she was also a semi-finalist in the Miss COED 2016.
One of the things that has come to help her as a model is her looks and her measurements. She can easily be confused with a much older model whose name is also Natalia Taylor. Natalia has over 123,000 followers on Instagram and over 71,000 on Twitter.
