Lee Tilghman wants you to know she’s finished being an influencer.
Once known as @leefromamerica, she spent years churning out meticulously aesthetic smoothie bowls, videos of her morning routines, and aspirational wellness content for nearly 400,000 followers until the whole enterprise collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. She was canceled in 2018 for the crime of raising her prices for a workshop she was putting on, an unpardonable sin in a world where followers imagine themselves as shareholders in your life. The backlash was swift. The shame was consuming. And under the pressure, her half-managed eating disorder came roaring back. Tilghman disappeared from Instagram, leaving the cult she had cultivated to feast on her absence.
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