We don’t want to see this.” I’d get a lot of “fat bitch,” “fat whale.”īut I also started getting backlash from the body-positive community. A lot of it was just negative comments from random men, or people that were just like, “You’re fat. But as my following grew, I started getting haters. Right now I’m consulting with Victoria’s Secret Pink to help it with fit and expand sizing. They’d gift me clothes, and some of them even asked me to consult for them. By January 2021, I had millions of followers, and when I’d call out these famously thin-centric brands, they’d reach out to me. Over the next three months my audience continued to grow. So in a way, these haul videos helped me take something frustrating and add a bit of humor to it. To be honest I was in denial about it for a while: I was still walking around in clothes that were too tight because I did not want to shop for new ones. I’d gained a bunch of weight - in part because of the binging - and by the time I lost my job in 2020, I was a size 14-16. I’d talk about my anxiety, or my struggle with binge-eating, something I’d started dealing with right before the pandemic. The hauls were the most popular thing, but sometimes, I’d sprinkle in more personal videos. Wow, that’s so true - that’s how I’ve always felt in a dressing room.”
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The videos went nuts my comment section was full of people saying things like, “Oh my God, I feel this too. That’s when I started making what I call “realistic clothing hauls.” I’d try on clothes that were supposed to be my size and just poke fun at how ridiculous they looked. Still, I was sending it to friends like, “Wait guys, what’s happening?” I mean, it was viral in my mind - I don’t even know if it got 10,000 likes. It was for fun I never thought anyone other than my friends would see it. The clothes were based on my measurements, and in the video I was laughing in the mirror, both at myself and how bad most of these clothes looked like on me. One day, I got a package of clothing in the mail, I think from either Nasty Gal or Pretty Little Thing, and I decided to make a video of myself trying everything on. I’ve always been a curvier girl - I was a size 10-12 growing up - and my mom literally had to force me to go shopping because I hated it so much. That was fine, but for me, trying on clothes has never been fun. I was watching these girls who looked like me, or were bigger than me, doing fashion hauls, and I noticed that they only showed the good: clothes that fit, clothes they looked amazing in. So I started messaging influencers, asking to work for them for free, which is when I came across the curvy fashion side of TikTok. It was fine, but I still had all of this downtime and felt like I was losing my mind. I’d lost my job in the music industry a few months earlier, and my dad, who works in women’s fashion, encouraged me to join a small agency as a curve model. I started posting on TikTok in September 2020.
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