Influencer Lissette Calveiro has more than 37,000 followers on Instagram, but has admitted she went into almost $15,000 of debt to win them over. 9News
"This meant constant online shopping for a closet that enabled me to 'never repeat an outfit' for a picture, endless Açai bowls and brunches and a need to feed my newly acquired travel bug without consideration of the potential risks of being in debt – all to show off to my newfound followers," she wrote.
But given she was still working an entry-level job, Calveiro was using what little savings she had and "a handful of plastic" to fund her flashy new lifestyle, and it soon caught up with her. Within three years she was drowning in almost $15,000 of credit card debt and couldn't believe that things had gone so far, all in the pursuit of social media popularity.
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