I’m aware of her since this morning, thanks to the Bradley Simmonds thread. She is his latest podcast guest - I want to give her the benefit of the doubt but any association with him makes that challenging. A quick glance at her IG feed tells me that she has overcome an eating disorder and is now sharing her health and fitness journey.
I’m quite wary of health and fitness influencers in general. For context, I started working with a personal trainer last year with the main goal of losing weight. Now, the focus has shifted to strength. And this is a huge privilege because it was quite the financial investment! I wouldn’t give my money to just anyone because when it comes to doing the moves properly, without injury, I wouldn’t trust just anyone.
Basically, there’s still a very aspirational element to health and fitness bloggers that leaves me feeling queasy, and there’s also a huge amount of privilege that doesn’t appear to be acknowledged.
The paying for someone’s groceries for TikTok content is just offensive to me, as well-meaning as it may have been!