Bella Poarch reveals shocking photo before TikTok fame: \u201cI felt hopeless\u201d Instagram: @bella.poarchBella Poarch soared to the top of TikTok stardom in 2020, scoring the platform\u2019s most-liked video due to her viral lipsyncing clip of Millie B\u2019s \u201cM to the B\u201d \u2014 but life wasn\u2019t always sunshine and roses before her rise to online fame. While names like Charli D\u2019Amelio and Addison Rae continue to dominate TikTok\u2019s ongoing popularity contest, Bella Poarch became the platform\u2019s poster girl in September 2020, after a short lipsyncing video of hers suddenly went viral. Lipsyncing to grime artist Millie B\u2019s diss track, \u201cM to the B,\u201d Poarch simultaneously became a TikTok icon and a source of internet ire over the popularity of her relatively simplistic video \u2014 and while she\u2019s gained a whopping 50 million followers as a result, she isn\u2019t shying away from her own internal struggles. On December 27, Poarch shared a deeply personal post to her Instagram followers, which included a photo from her high school graduation. According to Poarch, the picture was taken while she was \u201c50 pounds heavier and at my lowest.\u201d Poarch went on to explain that, on the day the photo was taken, she \u201cdecided to force myself to make changes and do big things with my life\u201d and join the Navy. \u201cThe Navy was the first time I ever felt like I really had a family,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt was the first time I ever felt love and support. Friends would wake me up for therapy appointments that I would always sleep through. Or they would push me to keep going when I would cry my eyes out trying to carry machine guns up the ship steps that weighed as much as me.\u201d View this post on Instagram \u201cWhen I was no longer in the Navy, I felt alone and hopeless again,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo thank you for showing up and being there for me. You don\u2019t know how much it means to me to have you here. I want you to know that I\u2019m right here for you the same way that you\u2019ve been there for me.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time Poarch has opened up about her struggles with mental health; earlier this month, the star also revealed that TikTok \u201csaved her life,\u201d thanking her fans for their support amid the internal \u201cwar\u201d she continues to fight against depression. .@tiktok_us @tiktokcreators \u2665\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/TFCChzkvAA \u2014 Bella Poarch (@bellapoarch) December 3, 2020 Thus far, Poarch\u2019s latest Instagram post has been met with overwhelming positivity from her fans and fellow influencers \u2014 a welcome response to being so vulnerable online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bella Poarch reveals shocking photo before TikTok fame: \u201cI felt hopeless\u201d Instagram: @bella.poarchBella Poarch soared to the top of TikTok stardom in 2020, scoring the platform\u2019s most-liked video due to her viral lipsyncing clip of Millie B\u2019s \u201cM to the B\u201d \u2014 but life wasn\u2019t always sunshine and roses before her rise to online fame. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}