Since everyone is sharing their stories about how they found Sarah, here’s mine.
I was 14. I struggled with body dysphoria all my life, my weight yo-yo’d for as long as I could remember. I was born underweight and to make up for it I was force-fed all throughout childhood, leading me to becoming nearly obese by the time I started school.
At the age 12, I had enough. I was already skipping meals, eating cereals and apple for dinner (my mum wasn’t around all the time, so restricting was easier). I began looking up crazy stuff online on how to loose weight, speed up your metabolism etc. I did things like eating 5 small meals a day, 1000 calorie workouts, lived off salads etc.
Then I found Sarah at around 2016. I liked because of how much I related to her, at the time she had a sense of sadness to her content due to her breakup with Mitch, that made me feel a little less lonely. She was like friend I desperately needed, like an older sister I looked up to, and watching her seemingly get better and happier gave me hope that one day the same would happen to me.
At the time I didn’t even realise how problematic she was. Her constant body checking led me to do the same, I have a mirror in my room that in front of which I would lift up my shirt to check for abs and rib cage, my butt, at least three times a day.
What kind of broke the straw for me was her unawareness of how privileged she is. I remember watching one video of her struggles with acne ( I had terrible at that point), and thinking about how melodramatic she was. After her launch with her first ebook that led to her loosing her period, I was like damn this girl has no resilience.
It was pregnancy announcement that led me to unsubscribe. Because I knew her content would now be filled with family/baby stuff, and that’s not what I’m here for. And I was right.
One day I randomly searched up ‘Sarah’s Day Exposed’ and ended up in GG. I have always been kind of confused in terms of coming to conclusion for her. I would switch back and forth between tattle and her content and it was the S&S incident that truly broke it for me.
Sorry for the long post, but I’m officially done with Sarah.