Right?? Who did she pay or who is trying to kiss her feet at the Independent because the title is SO sensationalized. She did not "make it" in NY. She already came with a huge amount of privilege. The city is filled with rodents so while it is a nuisance, guess what, in a densely populated city as New York, you're bound to come in contact with a roach or two, it does not mean she lived in squalor and had to scrape by at a crappy job until she got her big break to finally afford groceries.
Also, the way her apartment is described is laughable. Nothing against renting (I am also a renter in NYC), but the Arch Digest level of describing someone's home is usually reserved for someone's actual home, not a place they don't even own, and I am fairly certain she does not live in some ultraluxury full service apartment or else we would have seen tons of pictures of the amenities by now. She just loves always reminding us that she lives on the Upper East Side, but we all know she is not THAT type of Upper East Sider she gives the impression of being. I get influencers make their living off selling a certain image/fantasy but it's so misleading when she's being interviewed on how she "made it" because there are WAY more people who actually came to this city with barely anything, struggling until their next meal, working their butts off, living in crappy apartments with long commutes into Manhattan to finally achieve their dreams, but no we get this overprivileged vanilla wafer talking about how hard her rise to success has been
