People would jump to my defense and I would make video responses where I responded really maturely to haters and just explained, 'Body hair is normal. I would get a lot of hate comments about it, so that would boost the algorithm and my videos would go super viral. I had armpit hair and, I don't know, apparently this was not normal in June 2020. It was actually because I had a lot of body hair. What's funny is my videos did not go viral at first because of anything I was wearing. So they would write in the group chat like, 'Oh, I just posted this TikTok, check it out.' Which is how I got on TikTok in the first place during the pandemic.Īfter that video blew up, I was like, 'Oh, it felt really good to just try on all this clothing.' So I started documenting trying on clothing, putting together outfits. My camp friends were all trying to go viral doing TikTok dances, but I don't think any of them had any success with that. I posted a video trying on those shorts and I think it maybe got 10,000 views, which to me at the time was an impossibly large amount of views. I put them on and they all magically fit. I found a bag full of children's shorts from Limited Too from my childhood in the back of my closet. So I did have cute pajamas, it wasn't all depressing clothing.īut I was getting pretty depressed, not putting on outfits every day. Before the pandemic, I would go out and thrift fuzzy pajama pants, and I would wear them as real pants to parties with cute sneakers and a cropped tank top, maybe, and some layered jewelry. I was just wearing pajamas every single day.

Then the pandemic started and I moved from my apartment on the Lower East Side into my parents' home in Connecticut. Even if I was just running to the bodega, I was wearing something cute. I started NYU in the fall of 2017 and I was always wearing cute little outfits everywhere I went. It's a really unique perspective, the way you present fashion on TikTok. Tell me how you got started and came up with the idea to do this on TikTok.

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