You know, the more I think about that fucking karma comment I want to scream.
I just finished my first cycle of TTC and found out this morning I didn’t conceive. Now, I am an intelligent woman who’s been reading and tracking and all that stuff and I know the stats about conceiving in your first month, but my hopes were still up. We’ve waited a long time, and through a lot of health issues on my end, for this to be the first time to try.
But I was thinking today, as I had to teach through the sadness, just how deeply fucked her karma comment was on so many levels. Firstly, what’s been discussed here — that she was “lucky” and others aren’t —(fuck right off Anna). Secondly, and this is what I was thinking about today, is for her female followers who might not know a whole lot about conception (I mean lily didn’t even know you needed to ovulate) and will be looking to Anna and taking her word as gospel (bless their hearts
). What happens when they don’t conceive on their first month like their “BFF on the internet Anna”. They’ll start feeling like failure and that they don’t measure up or compare to Anna, because she said she had karma on her side and they didn’t? I just find it so deeply sad. I think it’s so disgusting for her, and many other influencers, to put out this type of information. More so the “thanks to karma we got pregnant on the first try” rather than her stating they got pregnant on the first try. A lot of people do, a lot of people don’t.
I hope what I’m saying here is making sense. I don’t want to come off as woe is me and whiny about my (actual lack of) problems. I just want to highlight that she could be doing quite a bit of damage to young women who look up to her (
) or don’t have a figure in their lives they can talk to about this — and feel more comfortable with the parasocial relationship rather than reading up in books etc.
And now every time I see that smug face she’s pulling in her photos , I just imagine her thinking “we have karma on our side and you don’t” and then cackling like an immature school girl.
oh, and she looks like a giant inside of a toilet roll in that beige knit dress shared up thread.