When did you start running, and what do you think set off a nerve on TikTok?
This whole social media thing came out of nowhere to me. I was not aiming to become a content creator.
I just had my third baby and I was mentally and physically in the dumps. I felt like I just had to go outside and run. I didn’t have a gym or anything, and thought: I’m going to film this, I just want to remember where I’m at at this point.
The amount of support I felt toward me was amazing, but the amount of support other people felt too — “Hey, I’m like that too” — made me really tear up.
Why did you decide to continue posting?
I have no humility. I’m not sure why — my husband thinks I’m insane — but I 100 percent do not care. I will not clean up my house to film a video. I will not! And that’s what I put out there.
I thought I was too slow to even call myself a runner. Immediately after that video, I saw a huge untouched space that I felt needed to be touched in order to empower more people. Before, I felt really isolated, but I realized that there were a lot of people like me.
I felt like the really curated feeds were keeping people from feeling like they could run or try to run or work out in any way. So that’s why I kept posting.
One of your more beloved moves is your running-outfit-of-the-day pose, where you stand in a position that looks like … Gumby? Explain.