I'm surprised they responded! I imagine they'll just ask her to be careful in future.
The trouble with Tiffany Brien and others like her, is that she's really selling (and living) a lie. It's like sinister marketing techniques but unregulated.
she's a salesperson by profession, and her dad is clearly a savvy salesman too. Salespeople can be great at business but often aren't very good people. She's conditioned to sell a fantasy by virtue of her profession - market properties as perfect and gloss over the less appealing parts. Everything with her is about appearances. She compulsively presents the perfect family life, the perfect body, the perfect boyfriend, the perfect home. Her whole "brand" is based on being the person that makes everyone else feel crap while she hides the negatives. Her whole existence is "Look at how wonderful and amazing I am". it's toxic.
Not only is it unethical, but its harmful. Instagram doesn't have to be about total realism but there is a fine line when you'repackaging yourself up for likes and freebies. The worst part is, in her pretending to be happy this way, she's deluding other people into thinking you'll be happy if you go after the shallow things she does. Shes pretending her fitness and working out is why her body looks the way it does- but for anyone who has experience of eating disorders, its extremely obvious she has some sort of disordered eating and isn't being honest.
I really hope people start to see through "influencers" like her. There's so much more to life than nice dresses, rugby boyfriends and going for facials. I'm starting to see girls talk about mental health in more realistic terms and discussing more honestly their relationship with their bodies, food and mental health. It's trendy to be socially conscious and environmentally conscious now - the type of fast fashion lifestyle Tiffany endorses with a focus on "clean" eating is something people are moving away from.
People who come from huge privilege but pretend they haven't, also massively annoys me. As someone from a working class background who has struggled through university and worked up a career ladder; it's frustrating to see her pretend that she worked her way into her job fairly, just like anyone else. Being the coffee girl is irrelevant, her dad was hardly ever going to turn her job application down without any feedback, was he?
Likewise, doing up her house as though it's some huge achievement -not many people have the luxury of moving back to their parents mansion for several months. And I don't know if/how much financial assistance she got from her family for a deposit - but I'll wager she didn't do it totally alone and I'll wager shes not on the same salary as her colleagues. Plus it's a lot easier to save for a deposit and pay for beauty treatments every day when your parents live in a mansion, as opposed to having a box room in a cramped terrace house.
Ellie's letter from 2017 was harsh and brutal... but it wasn't entirely unfair.