oh god Kacie Rose...agree about your thoughts on her. Another person who when crying about homesickness picks up a camera to film herself, totally normal reactionI noticed in the description of her latest vlog she wrote Sunday Riley products were gifted and not an "ad." But ...she works for them. Im not sure how it can't be promotional.
Also, just an aside, I see she hangs out with Kacie Rose, somebody I absolutely cannot stand. (Seems like a nice person, but very ignorant, wrong about so much, no grasp on the language, very stereotypically American and I'm not sure why she's still in Italy etc) so I obviously dislike her inclusion in IG stories lol.
Ha! I'm glad you know who I'm talking about. I'm sure she's great giving pep talks to US students abroad, but she's no expert. And it's 2 years she's been crying about people saying she doesn't speak Italian, but she doesn't really make an effort. Which brings me to Sofie....Did you notice she pretended she also "learns Italian with Davide?" Lol. We all heard her actual language story from years ago. Kacie also does ads for this Davide person. It drives me crazy haha.oh god Kacie Rose...agree about your thoughts on her. Another person who when crying about homesickness picks up a camera to film herself, totally normal reaction
omg yes, but didn't Kacie also do ads for lingoda? (which to me seems like a massive scam) her italian is atrocious, whatever she says in her constant crying videos about it, she seems to basically just hand around with american ex patsHa! I'm glad you know who I'm talking about. I'm sure she's great giving pep talks to US students abroad, but she's no expert. And it's 2 years she's been crying about people saying she doesn't speak Italian, but she doesn't really make an effort. Which brings me to Sofie....Did you notice she pretended she also "learns Italian with Davide?" Lol. We all heard her actual language story from years ago. Kacie also does ads for this Davide person. It drives me crazy haha.
yeah I agree, like you said I liked her xmas video in Calabria as I like the italian content, her skincare routine, eating in her flat etc... I could watch anyone doing that.Yes @emm and recently Babbel.
Back to Sofie, I assume her mother remarried very well.
I was excited she was moving to Florence, since I lived there and love it. But her content is just very blah lately, IMO. As you noted earlier, maybe the brand influence?
Interesting about you contacting KR! I always get the feeling she seems very fake.Thanks @emm for making this thread, I felt like I was annoying folks whenever I mentioned Sofie in the Kylie thread
Back during her Rome phase (I think 2016 to 2019), I enjoyed watching Sofie as a counterbalance to her friend Zoey Arielle (who also has a thread here), since Zoey was incredibly ditzy and annoying in the way she misrepresented Italy as a perfect place - and not to mention her butchering of Italian at every opportunity to sound sophisticated. Sofie was "keeping it real", at least to an extent. She seemed to live pretty humbly, talked about the struggles of working in Italy as a foreigner, didn't pretend like Italy was a fairytale.
Sofie at least has some self-awareness about being an "influencer" and about how she portrays her life through the lens of social media. In the past she's made several posts and videos talking about her insecurities, sharing photos/videos of her face and body unfiltered, and saying she doesn't want her audience to compare their lives to hers or to feel inferior. A few months back she reposted something on Instagram stories to the effect of: "kids these days and their technology!".
But if she truly believed that, would she share as much of her life as she does? Does she say that just to excuse herself? I just find it odd that she tries to relate by saying "I get bloated too, my life isn't perfect, don't believe what you see on social media" when it is her literal job in PR/marketing to use social media to persuade people into buying Sunday Riley's products (which, sorry to say, still preys on women's insecurities no matter how green or hip your branding is), to make things "aesthetic" and picture-perfect. Since she's been in Florence, it's been nothing but vacations, spa trips, meals out, classy events with SR... with the occasional complaint about bureaucracy and crying about being away from family. I've found her less and less relatable in the last few years.
She moved back to Houston in 2019 because, I believe, they were starting to feel the strain of Italy's economic situation. She said they wanted to be able to raise a family in the US because it's much more stable. After their little flat in Rome, I was incredibly surprised to see them moving into (what looked like) a brand-new townhome in one of the country's biggest cities. I can't imagine going from a shabby little place in Rome with moths in the cupboards to a whole-ass townhome, especially after talking about how poorly she was paid teaching English.
Out of nowhere there was a wholly furnished townhome, $200 Smeg toaster and all, even before landing her job at SR. During the height of the pandemic, she clearly wasn't hurting financially because she was constantly shopping at Whole Foods (even making an entire video out of her $400 grocery haul) on seemingly one income - her husband didn't get his real estate license until August 2020.
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Fast forward to February 2022, they've survived the pandemic well enough to be able to pack up their entire lives to move to Florence, where they decide to start from scratch in an apartment that doesn't even have an installed kitchen. Sure, they were really "roughing it" on their nice inflatable couch and with no overhead lighting, but this isn't even their forever home and they have had to drop so much money on a customized kitchen that they probably can't even take with them when they move.
I'm not mad at her for having money, but let's be real. She does not come from anything less than an upper middle class background, and she clearly has had help along the way. She boasts a great amount of privilege, without which her life wouldn't be the way we see it online. Even down to receiving dual citizenship and initially moving to Italy to go to language school, these things cost A LOT (see: Zoey Arielle wasting thousands of dollars on her student visa but still cannot string a sentence together in Italian). It would just be nice for influencers to be more transparent about this kind of stuff.
By the way, Kacie Rose seems like the worst kind of expat, but maybe I'm just bitter because she never responded to me years ago when I reached out to her asking advice about US visas for Italians. She seems like an opportunist, trying to capitalize off the SM expat trend, and only wants to be around other influential people. If you make content about being an expat, I'd think you would be willing to help others on their expat journey, no? Or is that asking too much?
I reached out to KR because she talked about her partner being able to come to the US on a visa that wasn’t for study or a K1, so I was interested in what that was. At the time my partner and I were just getting ready to start the K1 process and we wanted to explore all options. Guess we will never know!Interesting about you contacting KR! I always get the feeling she seems very fake.
I found the move strange also, and then when moving back to Italy selling a a lot of their kitchen stuff etc when most people in their kind of situation would basically give them away/sell it for very cheap. What is Sofie's husbnad's job now, does anyone know?
I think that is still his job (got it back) since he's away for work for weeks at a time like when they were in Rome.LinkedIn says he is “presently” a tour manager for EF Tours (which he did before they left Rome). Either he got that job back or just never changed his LinkedIn. Before that he was a sommelier and a tax lawyer.
She speaks very little considering how long she has been there imo, she is not at all a good ad for those language courses, she reminds me.of an ex colleague I had in Rome (also American) who having lived there 4 years couldn't even conjugate basic verbs. Painful to listen to
Ok now I’m getting confused. I don’t follow her closely so she DOES speak Italian?
I don’t mind cursing, but thought it was hilarious a couple years ago when she admitted she had gone for a long time saying “minchia” without realizing how vulgar it is.I like that Sofie speaks quite well, even picking up her husband/his family's calabrese accent more or less. Though she can sometimes be a bit vulgar, which always takes me by surprise lol. I curse in my daily life, but I wouldn't do it on a public platform lol.
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