How old is MrBeast's girlfriend Thea Booysen?

YouTube star Jimmy "MrBeast" is currently dating South African YouTuber and Twitch streamer — Thea Booysen. According to famousbirthdays.com, Booysen was born on December 5, 1997 — making her 27 years old at the time of writing (January 2025). For those wondering — the couple met in Booysen's home country, South Africa, in 2022 — during a dinner hosted by a mutual friend.

Known online as "TheaBeasty," she has 38.6K subscribers on YouTube and 29.8K followers on Twitch — although she is not very active on either platform. Thea enjoys playing card games like Gwent and even became an official Gwent caster for the game's creator, CD Projekt. Occasionally, she posts videos (such as card openings and vlogs) featuring MrBeast.

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Is Thea Booysen engaged to MrBeast?

On January 1, 2024, MrBeast shared a heartwarming picture of the couple and announced their engagement after two years of dating, along with this message:

"So I kinda did a thing..."

In a conversation with People, MrBeast shared that many expected him to propose in a grand, high-budget manner, similar to his YouTube videos. However, he revealed that he wanted to do the opposite — opting for a private proposal surrounded by family:

"My friends thought I would want to propose in a very public way, like some sort of spectacle at the Super Bowl or somewhere else really big like that, but I knew that I wanted it to be the opposite, to be really private and intimate."

He added:

"Thea is really close to her family, so I wanted to make sure that they were included in this momentous occasion. Christmas worked out great because they were in town from the other side of the world."

Booysen has also spoken about their potential wedding destination. She mentioned that she doesn’t want it to turn into a public spectacle and would prefer hosting it on a private island, far away from the spotlight. She said (via People):

"We're thinking of doing it somewhere on an island where we're far away from just about everybody. We're not going to try and have a big, extravagant wedding. It's going to be nicer but it's certainly going to be intimate [with] close family and friends."

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Before entering content creation, Thea Booysen had an impressive academic background. She earned degrees in psychology and law from Stellenbosch University and also holds a master’s degree in neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh.

In 2022, she authored a book titled The Marked Children. The story follows the life of a 16-year-old who discovers a mysterious symbol on his arm, only to learn that thousands of other children with the same mark have gone missing.