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Russian-born Mya Erlikh didn’t always have basketball-size breasts and around a million followers on Instagram. In her native Moscow, where the social media influencer and comic lived until her family moved to the US when she was 9, she was just a skinny “loser” struggling to cope with abandonment.

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“When I was 5 years old my mother just got up one day and left,” Erlikh, 31, tells Jam Press. “My father had to basically raise me alone [until] he met my step-mom, when I was 11.”

Moving to the States was particularly hard on Erlikh since she spoke no English and was shunned by her peers: “It was a very hard transition going to school and not knowing the language.”

“I had [parents] tell their kids not to be friends with me because I would tell them that I don’t speak to my biological mother,” she explains, “and they would say, ‘What kind of person doesn’t speak to their mother?’ when in reality she didn’t speak to me.’ ”

At 15, Erlikh reunited with her mother for the first time since her mom walked out on the family a decade before. The brief reunion would also be the last.

“She took me to a bar in the city and told everyone I was 21,” Erlikh claims.

“After that I told my father I didn’t want to see her again,” she continues. “It was heartbreaking to meet someone that’s supposed to be so close to you and you feel nothing.”

Despite early hardships, Erlikh finished school and went on to become a successful real estate agent, which earned her a stable lifestyle and a steady paycheck. But she soon realized that the nine-to-five grind wasn’t for her. That’s when she turned to Instagram for income.

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“I was just miserable doing [real estate],” she admits. “I took the chance of making less money, but to have the chance to actually be happy, and I think it’s the best decision I ever made.”

Now, the real-estate-agent-cum-internet-hustler can rake in $1,000 per social media post. Her private Instagram account, @damnhomie11, features Erlikh in boudoir-style photos and boasts 969,000 followers. Meanwhile, she uses her public account, @damn_homie — which has 541,000 followers — as a platform for her “if women told the truth”-brand of comedy. It usually features Erlikh clad in bikinis.

“The best [comedy] comes from real-life experiences,” she says. “Think of the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you: Putting it in a video is the best thing you could do.”

“But you have to be able to laugh at yourself,” adds Erlikh, who now lives in Brooklyn. But comedy isn’t just a way to pay the bills.

“When I used to go through depression, I used to turn to Instagram comedy as a way to cope with it,” she says. “You’d be surprised by how many people write to me telling me my videos help them get through their day. It makes me feel good that I can do for them what others have done for me in my darkest times.”

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But it’s not all laughs for the raunchy Russian Jew, who is no stranger to hate speech on social media.

“The worst is probably people sending me swastikas and telling me all Jews should be dead,” she says.

She also recently broke off an engagement — with a man who she says couldn’t accept her lifestyle in the spotlight.

“Everyone I’ve been with has always wanted me to just sit home and pop out kids. If I meet the right person I would love to share a life with them, but I’d rather be alone than be with someone that doesn’t make me happy,” she says.

To those who hope to follow in her unorthodox footsteps, Erlikh shares some advice: “Be original — find your own style. Something that hasn’t been done yet. Copying someone will never get you anywhere.”

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