Zulay Pogba

Zulay Pogba is a Bolivian-born lifestyle influencer, model and entrepreneur, and the wife of French footballer Paul Pogba. She is known to roughly a million people on Instagram and about 51,000 on TikTok, where she posts wellness, travel and family content rather than anything football-related.

Her public identity sits at the intersection of two worlds. On one side is a modelling and influencer career that has taken her to fashion events and, in May 2026, to a Lifestyle Influencer Award handed out during Cannes Festival week. On the other is a marriage to one of the most scrutinised footballers of his generation, a union that has kept her in the tabloids through doping bans, contract terminations and transfer speculation without her ever seeking the spotlight herself.

She divides her time between Miami and Monaco and describes herself in her Instagram bio as a mother of three. Since 2025 she has also been a co-founder, with her husband, of a jewellery business, which marks her most concrete step from brand-facing content into ownership of a commercial venture. [edit]

She was born Maria Zulay Salaues in Bolivia, and press coverage from the period before her marriage consistently identifies her as a Bolivian model. Beyond that, the record is thin. Her exact birth date and the city she was born in are not documented in any consistent form across the sources that cover her, which is why her age remains one of the most frequently searched questions about her.

What is documented is that she lived in the United States before she met Paul Pogba. Media accounts describe a modelling career already underway on that side of the Atlantic, and her later social media presence, anchored in Miami, suggests the move was not a brief one. The United States period is the formative stretch of her public life: it is where she built the audience and the aesthetic that would later carry over into a much larger following once her relationship became news.

The meeting itself is generally placed around 2017 or 2018, when Pogba was playing for Manchester United. By September 2018, Goal was reporting that the midfielder was dating her and that the pair were rumoured to be engaged. That report marks the point at which her private life became a matter of public record, and it is also roughly where the pre-fame phase ends: from then on, everything she did was reported in relation to him.

She has never given a detailed account of her childhood, her schooling or her first modelling jobs, and no credible source fills those gaps. What can be said without hedging is that she arrived at the relationship with an established career and an established home in the US, not as a newcomer to public life. [edit]

Her professional life has run on two tracks. The first is influencer and model work: brand and lifestyle content across Instagram and TikTok, framed in her own description as lifestyle, wellness and everything in between. That content leans on Pilates, travel and family rather than football commentary, and it has carried her to fashion gatherings including Business of Fashion events.

The second track is the one that put a trophy in her hands. In May 2026, during Cannes Festival week, she received a Lifestyle Influencer Award, an honour that recognised the brand work and audience she had built independently of her husband's career. It is the clearest professional marker in her public record to date.

In August 2025 she and Pogba launched a jewellery business together, moving her from promoting other people's products to co-owning one. The venture arrived at a practical moment: Pogba's four-year doping ban had been reduced, his Juventus contract was terminated in November 2024, and he was a free agent. The business gave the household a commercial project separate from football income.

She has also, on occasion, functioned as a signal for football reporters. In October 2025 she dropped a public hint about her husband's next club while watching a Real Madrid match, and the remark was picked up and reported as transfer news. It is an odd feature of her position that a social media post about a match can generate more coverage than a year of lifestyle content. [edit]

Her public image is deliberately restrained. The Instagram grid runs on Pilates sessions, travel and family photographs, with the occasional fashion event, and the tone is closer to a wellness account than to the glossy influencer template. She does not post match commentary, does not weigh in on her husband's career decisions, and rarely gives interviews.

That restraint is itself the persona. In a football world where partners are often pulled into storylines, she has stayed mostly outside them, appearing in the frame at celebrations and holidays rather than in the headlines. When she does make news, it tends to be through a single post rather than a statement.

Her styling leans clean and understated: neutral tones, fitted silhouettes, minimal jewellery outside of the pieces tied to the couple's business. The Cannes-week award in 2026 pushed her briefly into a more formal register, and the coverage that followed treated her as a lifestyle figure in her own right rather than an accessory to a footballer. [edit]

iFANN has not yet collected fame data for Zulay Pogba, so she holds no published placement in the Global Fame Rankings. Her visibility is real but concentrated: roughly one million Instagram followers and about 51,000 on TikTok, with most of that attention arriving through her marriage rather than through her own content.

There is no documented fandom name, no organised fanbase and no coordinated streaming or charity campaigns attached to her. Her audience is better described as a general lifestyle following: people who found her through football coverage and stayed for the wellness, travel and family posts. The engagement pattern reflects that. Comments cluster on family photographs and Pilates clips rather than on anything she says about the game.

What she does have is a peculiar kind of secondary influence. In October 2025, a post made while she watched a Real Madrid match was read as a hint about her husband's next club and picked up by football outlets within hours. A lifestyle influencer with a million followers does not normally move transfer speculation, and the fact that she can is a measure of how closely her audience watches her.

The Cannes-week Lifestyle Influencer Award in May 2026 brought a brief wave of new followers and a round of coverage that framed her professionally rather than domestically. Whether that converts into a following independent of the Pogba name is the open question of her career. [edit]

She keeps a markedly lower media profile than her husband. Where Pogba has given long interviews about his career and his ban, she has largely let her posts do the talking, and her social presence is built on wellness, Pilates and travel rather than commentary on football.

Her Instagram bio is a compact statement of geography and role: A world of my own, followed by Miami, Monaco and Mama of 3. The two cities are not decorative. She genuinely splits her time between Florida and the principality, and the split has been a running detail in coverage of the couple.

A story fans still retell is the birthday post. By 2019, Pogba was publicly sharing family photographs and calling her his wife on her birthday, well before any formal announcement of a wedding had been made. The couple's habit of letting domestic milestones surface through social posts rather than statements has continued since.

Her Cannes award in May 2026 surprised a portion of the football audience who knew her only as a player's spouse. She had, in fact, been working as an influencer for years before the ceremony. [edit]

She and Paul Pogba have three children. Their son Labile Shakur was pictured with them in 2020, and reporting in 2023 set out the family in fuller detail. She refers to herself as a mother of three in her Instagram bio and posts family material more readily than she discusses anything else.

The household is split between Miami and Monaco, a arrangement that has shaped how the family lives through Pogba's career moves. She was with him for birthday celebrations in November 2024 and again in March 2025, and the couple were photographed together through the period when his Juventus contract was terminated and he became a free agent.

She has not spoken publicly in any depth about her own parents or siblings, and no credible source names them. What she has shared is the family she has built: three children, a marriage that has lasted through a doping ban and a club upheaval, and a business she runs alongside her husband. [edit]

Her public associations run through her husband's career: Manchester United, where the couple met and where Pogba played from 2016 to 2022, and Juventus, the club he returned to in 2022 before his contract was terminated in November 2024. She has appeared alongside him at fashion and business events, and the jewellery venture launched in August 2025 is a joint project. Beyond that circle, her connections are to the lifestyle and modelling world rather than to football. [edit]

Her public romantic history consists of one relationship, and it has run for the better part of a decade. She met Paul Pogba around 2017 or 2018, while he was playing for Manchester United, and by September 2018 Goal was reporting that the pair were dating and rumoured to be engaged.

The engagement rumours were never formally confirmed, but the couple did not keep the relationship quiet either. By 2019 Pogba was posting family photographs and referring to her as his wife on her birthday, and by 2022 The Sun was describing her as his wife without qualification. The marriage appears to have been settled privately rather than announced.

Three children followed. Their son Labile Shakur was pictured with them in 2020, and reporting in 2023 detailed the family. She has been present through the harder stretches of his career: the four-year doping ban and its reduction, the termination of his Juventus contract in November 2024, and the free-agent period that followed. She joined him for birthday celebrations in November 2024 and again in March 2025.

No prior public relationships are documented in credible sources, and no separation has been reported. As of 2026, Zulay Pogba is married to Paul Pogba and the couple remain together with their three children. [edit]

No credible independent estimate of Zulay Pogba's personal net worth has been published, which is unsurprising given that her earnings come from influencer work, brand partnerships and a young jewellery business rather than from salaries or equity events that generate filings.

The iFANN Editorial Team's analysis of her income streams, business interests and shared assets points to roughly $5 Million as of 2026. That figure reflects her own commercial activity, principally brand and lifestyle content across Instagram and TikTok, appearances at fashion events, and her share of the jewellery venture she co-founded with Paul Pogba in August 2025. It does not attempt to apportion the household's football wealth, which belongs to her husband's earnings record.

Her earning capacity has grown steadily since the relationship became public around 2018. A following of about one million on Instagram and 51,000 on TikTok is a workable base for sponsored content, and the Cannes-week Lifestyle Influencer Award in May 2026 gave her a credential that brand partners tend to notice. The jewellery business adds a second, more durable stream: product revenue rather than per-post fees.

The trajectory from here depends on whether the business scales and whether she converts the 2026 attention into a following that stands on its own. For now the estimate sits in the low single-digit millions, and the household's overall position remains dominated by her husband's career earnings. [edit]

Her awards record is short and recent. In May 2026 she received a Lifestyle Influencer Award during Cannes Festival week, recognising her work as a lifestyle influencer and model. It is the only industry honour documented in her public record. [edit]