Marina Orlova

Marina Vladimirovna Orlova (Russian: Марина Владимировна Орлова) (born December 10, 1980) is a Russian philologist who has become an Internet celebrity, hosting a popular channel on YouTube, HotForWords, and a corresponding website. She also hosts a bi-weekly radio show on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio. Orlova was born in Arzamas (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1980. In an interview, she claimed to work at a shop for a year before applying to an international recruitment program; she was then sent to a small town near San Francisco and worked as a nanny for a working family with two children. Orlova initially aspired to become a model. She went to two photoshoots, but did not succeed – she was told that at 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m), she was too short to be a model. She has two degrees in philology and taught English and world literature to high school students in Moscow before moving to the United States to pursue further education. Orlova rents an apartment in Beverly Hills. She has said that her work takes up all of her time, and that she sometimes sits at the computer 12 to 14 hours at a time and has little time left for socializing. The theme of