McKenna Knipe

About

Model and social media sensation who has been featured by media outlets including VICE and Diario AS for her extreme mid-air feats and other daring stunts. A former full-time model turned skydiving enthusiast, she transformed a short school bus into her home on wheels in 2024 to set off on an unplanned worldwide excursion in pursuit of all the joys and surprises that it has to offer. She shares these adventures and more with over 120,000 followers on her mckennaknipe Instagram account.

Before Fame

She began working as a model when she was only 10 years old. Over the course of her career, she appeared on the cover of Stuart Magazine and in pictorials for numerous publications including Cosmopolitan, Chaos Magazine, and Seventeen.

Trivia

In 2010, when she was 14 years old, she appeared on the MTV reality television show Teen Cribs. Among the countless mid-air skydiving feats she has showcased on social media, she indulged in a pie from Jackson, MI's famed Napoleon Café, and, at his family's request, fulfilled the final wishes of a 94-year-old veteran by scattering his ashes from her lofty plunge.

Family Life

She shared an Instagram photo alongside her brothers in October 2017. Her father also made an appearance on her social media in March 2023.

Associated With

In 2022, she was featured and interviewed by Kit Hoover and Mario Lopez on Access Hollywood. She famously re-enacted Nathan Apodaca's viral cranberry juice video, featuring Fleetwood Mac's song "Dreams," at thousands of feet in the air during a skydive.