Anastasia Soare

Early life Soare was born in Constanța, Romania. the daughter of tailors Dumitru Bălămaci (who died when she was 12) and Victoria Babu. She studied art history and architecture in Romania.

Career Soare spoke very little English in 1989 when she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as an aesthetician at a beauty salon and soon realized that eyebrows were an under-explored area. "I developed a technique for how to shape eyebrows according to people's bone structure and natural eyebrow shape". As her manager did not think there was enough of a market, she rented a room in a Beverly Hills salon, providing facials, body waxing, and eyebrow sculpting. In 2023, Forbes estimated the value of all of Anastasia Beverly Hills at approximately $500 million.

Personal life In 1978, she married Victor Soare, a ship's captain. However, Soare and her daughter were not allowed to leave Romania to join him in the United States until 1989.