The original: Maya's idea came after reading Betty Cornell's Teenage Popularity Guide, which shares old-fashioned tips and tricks for 1950s adolescents to become popularīesides changing her appearance, Cornell’s guide also encouraged Maya to reach out to others and be more outgoing.Īs she made connections, kids began to gravitate to her.

But writing about them turned them into 'hilarious stories' where she was 'able to laugh at these things that were genuinely hurtful at first.' 'There were times people would say mean things and it would make me feel really bad,' confessed Maya, who was a 13-year-old eighth-grader in Brownsville, Texas, at the time. Some reaction to her new habits was hurtful, but documenting it seemed to help. Following the book, she began to put time into her appearance, and a classmate commented that she’d 'finally dropped the stupid ponytail.' Little things suggested by Cornell began to make sense.īefore the Popularity Guide, Maya says she’d spend five minutes on her hair. She began to make changes, wore pearls, dressed up and even tried a girdle. More than anything, I didn’t have anything to lose, so I said, 'You know what? I’ll try it for a month.'' 'I realized I did want friends and I did want to be liked and I did want to be accepted and while I didn’t have a clear cut definition of popularity, I knew that it wasn’t what I was. Her Twitter has about 2061 followers while her Instagram has 661 followers.Cash cow: Maya's book, titled Popular: A Memoir, Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek, was released on April 15 and has already been optioned for a film by DreamworksĪlthough she was used to being invisible, as she read the book she had an epiphany. Maya is active on social networking apps like Twitter and Instagram.Wagenen may also appear on the movie project of “Popular: One Geek’s Quest for the Impossible”.Maya gained fame and success at a young age because of her book “Popular”.Born and raised in the United States, she has an American nationality and white ethnicity.Maya though has gained fame and is a famous celebrity, she is not featured in Wikipedia.Her brother’s name is Brodie Van Wagenen. Speaking of her family, her father’s name is Michael Van Wagenen.

Maya has not shared any information about her relationship status, so we assume she does not have a boyfriend and is probably single.But she has rarely spoken about details on her income and net worth. Wagenen must have gained a good amount of earnings from her book.Her details on body measurements are not known. In addition, she has maintained her weight to about 60 Kg. Maya stands at an approximate height of about 5 feet and 3 inches.However, judging through her images on social platforms, she seems to be in her early twenties. Maya Van Wagenen’s actual date of birth is not known.

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