Fitness influencer reveals she dramatically turned her back on online fame after it ‘ruined’ her mental health [Video]

10:41 EST 04 Nov 2024, updated 15:32 EST 04 Nov 2024

A former fitness influencer has revealed how social media fame ‘ruined her mental health’ and left her ‘obsessed’ with getting likes for ‘validation.’

Madalin Giorgetta, 35, from Australia, spent years ‘eating crap’ and avoiding the gym – but she decided to turn her life around in 2016.

She soon fell in love with exercising and started documenting her journey online, and after one of her Instagram posts highlighting her body transformation went viral, her account ‘exploded.’

Within one year, Madalin had over a million followers, and she decided to quit her job to focus on being a fitness influencer full-time.

But the social media sensation has now spoken out about how the attention left her ‘fixated’ on her appearance and often feeling like she ‘wasn’t good enough.’

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