Holidays, horses and Hermes: meet Lilli, Instagram’s teen ‘Prom Queen’
The internet is positively FULL of them. And while they're not celebrities, to their thousands of followers, they're most certainly very famous.
Welcome to oh-so privileged lives of Instagram's pampered teenagers: a strangely hypnotic world brimming with designer labels, expensive watches, beach-breaks and totally OTT 16th and 18th birthday bashes.
Now we've stumbled upon Lilli Hymowitz, the so-called 'Prom Queen of Instagram,' who's causing an online storm among her 12,500 (and climbing daily) followers.
BFFs with the likes of 18-year-old model Hailey Baldwin and 16-year-old singer Madison Beer, her father is the wealthy hedgefunder investor Gregg Hymowitz.
A former pupil at the €40,000-a-year Riverdale Country School, Lilli is now home-schooled privately.
She lives on Manhattan's swish Upper East Side in a century-old €30m abode belonging to her father, but also spends lots of time with her photographer mother, Debby, in her multi-million dollar apartment in the same locale.
She evidently likes bikinis and horses – because her Instagram account @lillievehymo is FULL of both.
Indeed, Lilli has been involved in equestrian competitions since the age of four, and is a seriously accomplished horsewoman now – although partying is increasingly getting in the way of the sport.
This week, an interview she did recently with New York magazine went to print. In it, she admits: "I got a lot of followers when I became friends with some people that have names out there."
Dubbed a real-life Gossip Girl Serena or Blair by many of her peers, her 16th birthday caused a serious stir: themed Lilli’s Dark Circus, a soiree in her honour was held at Le Bain, a chic cocktail bar in the city's Meatpacking District.
Teens who attended some months ago still refer to it as the “party of the year.” Probably with good reason too: mega-star Jason Derulo performed.
The heiress admits to having a fake ID and no curfew – and certainly she goes out an awful LOT. She also thinks there are few feelings better then a shower the morning after the night before.
Still, Ms Hymowitz acknowledges that not everything you see online is always the real-deal. "You can edit your life on Instagram," she states in the recent interview.
"I think people think I’m cooler than I am."
