I started posting on TikTok in September 2020. I’d lost my job in the music industry a few months earlier, and my dad, who works in women’s fashion, encouraged me to join a small agency as a curve model. It was fine, but I still had all of this downtime and felt like I was losing my mind.
That’s when I started making what I call “realistic clothing hauls.” I’d try on clothes that were supposed to be my size and just poke fun at how ridiculous they looked. The videos went nuts; my comment section was full of people saying things like, “Oh my God, I feel this too. Wow, that’s so true — that’s how I’ve always felt in a dressing room.”
Another reason why certain people in the plus-size community aren’t on my side is because I will openly talk about being unhappy with my body. When I say “I’m not the happiest right now,” or “I don’t feel great,” people will say: “Remi’s fatphobic.” I’ve even been criticized for having too many skinny friends. But I’ve gained probably 80 pounds over the past few years — I’m only 27 and I’m getting a lot of health problems.
All of this began to affect my mental health. About a year into all of this I finally realized that I was getting into a darker place, that my binge-eating was starting to get worse. That I needed help. I was like,Photo: Marisa Chafetz In 2019, I was super stressed at work. I had a roommate at that time, and at some point, I started coming home from work late, and I would order food, close my door, turn off my phone, sit on the floor, and just eat. And then after, I would cry about it, because I would eat such an extreme amount. It got a little better when I was living with my family during COVID, but then I moved back to the city, started living alone again, and it just got worse and worse.
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