What happens when your entire life revolves around likes, follows, and perfectly staged smoothie bowls?
For Lee Tilghman — better known as @leefromamerica — it meant rising to the top of Instagram’s wellness world… and losing herself in the process.
This week, we explore what it means to devote yourself to the cult of social media: when every thought and action becomes about what to post, when friends are replaced by followers, and when your online identity becomes the only one you know.
From the outside, the influencer life looks aspirational. But Lee asks: at what cost?
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