![]() Wellness guru Belle Gibson gained a cult following on social media with her clean eating healthy lifestyle which she claimed was so powerful, it cured her cancer She captioned the photo of the book: 'Babe wake up the new manic pixie dream book is dropping mid-May.' ![]() However, before wiping her account clean, she revealed in a lengthy post that she had made up most of the money she owed to her publisher through an OnlyFans account.Īfter going dark on Instagram for several years, she revived her account four weeks ago to reveal the cover of her new book, Scammer. Most shockingly, she alleged Calloway's claim that she became Instagram famous from a snapshot of macarons is a massive lie.Īccording to Natalie, Calloway told her that she took out 'ads designed to look like posts to promote her account' and 'bought tens of thousands of followers' to build a fan base to sell her unwritten memoir.Īlthough Calloway defended herself in TV interviews and through her Instagram account, the controversy ultimately caused her to retreat from social media and delete her Instagram posts. However, it was October 2019 when Calloway's demise accelerated after a former friend Natalie Beach published an opinion piece in The Cut claiming she was responsible for the influencer's success, and had been the person behind her famous Instagram captions. The following year, the Guardian reported Calloway had refunded disappointed customers. Instead of publishing, she sold the first seven chapters on Etsy, admitting she was in debt of $100,000 to her publisher from the advance she had already been paid.Īs Calloway's downturn continued, 2019 brought a series of 'creative workshops' which cost $165 per session, but were widely considered a disaster as they promised things that never materialised including orchid crowns. However, two years later Calloway announced on social media that the book was no longer in the works as she branded its premise 'sexist'. In 2015, her large Instagram following helped her secure a book deal worth six figures, with a working title And We Were Like. ![]() New York-born Cambridge University student Caroline Calloway gained a huge Instagram following with her picturesque photos and wistful captions which supported a blog she began writing in 2012. The snaps showed how Jenna's beloved chihuahua (called Marbles) was a part of the ceremony as they posed with the ageing canine, who was in a carrier beside them. Posting black and white photos of himself with Jenna on their wedding day, he wrote: 'Married otters.' The influencer, who has 1.3million followers on Instagram and is a huge star on gaming platform Twitch, announced in December 2022 that he and Jenna had tied the knot. While Jenna is no longer on any social media platforms, her fans do receive occasional updates on her life through the platforms of her husband, Julien Solomita. That's it' - and three years later, she still has not returned to the internet. Jenna explained she was going to 'move on' from posting content on her YouTube channel but did not give any insight into how long her break would last.Īt the time, she said her intention was 'just live and just be. She added that, if the content she had posted several years ago causes people offence in the present day, she no longer wanted it to exist online. She said: 'I think now it's hard for that content to exist at all because I think people watch it and don't bother to look at when it was posted or care about what path I took to get to where I am.' In a script which Forbes described as Jenna 'cancelling herself', she said it had never been her intention to perform 'blackface'. The offending videos included a clip from 2011 in which she did an impersonation of rapper Nicki Minaj, for which she donned a pink wig and darkened her skin.įollowing a wave of backlash over the resurfaced videos, the YouTube star made her final clip on the platform addressing her past content, apologising for it and announcing the end of her channel. ![]() However, Jenna's star faded even more quickly than it rose in 2020, when videos of her doing 'blackface' resurfaced, as well as clips of her mocking Asian people for cheap jokes. Those fans soon turned into subscribers on her YouTube channel as she became one of the earliest stars on the platform. The clip saw her applying several layers of foundation and poke fun at herself in a comical video which earnt her millions of fans. Jenna Mourey shot to fame on YouTube under the alias Jenna Marbles with her video 'How to trick people into thinking you're good looking' in 2010.
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