“I acknowledge my privilege and the advantage I have as a white woman, no matter how I grew up,” she continued. I did not allow a space for people to voice their anger, hurt, and disappointment, which caused even more pain.” I disregarded the people whose work doesn’t afford them financial security, often due to inherently racist and biased systems. “By talking about my own success, I diminished the struggles and hard work of many people who work tirelessly every day. “I know I’ve caused tremendous pain in mentioning prominent women - including several women of color - whose struggles and achievements I can’t possibly understand,” she wrote. The video prompted a flurry of responses who did not take kindly to Hollis’ seeming to compare herself to prominent women of color nor to the idea that she simply outworks anyone who is not as financially successful as she is. Harriet Tubman, RBG, Marie Curie Oprah Winfrey, Amelia Earhart, Frida Khalo, Malala Yousafzai, Wu Zeitan. If my life is relatable to most people, I'm doing it wrong." Literally, every woman I admire in history was unrelatable. Most people won't fail publicly again and again just to reach the top of the mountain. Literally everything I do in my life is to live a life that most people can't relate to. “And then she said ‘Well, you’re unrelatable.’ What is it about me that made you think I wanted to be relatable? No, sis. “You’re right, I’m super freakin’ privileged, but also? I work my a** off to have the money to have someone come twice a week to clean my toilets.,” she said in the video. But, since nothing on the internet every really goes away, it still exists in other formats. When a commenter responded that mentioning having a cleaning person was “privileged” and “unrelatable,” Hollis took to TikTok to respond in a now-deleted post. In a recent Instagram Live, Hollis mentioned having someone who came to her house twice a week to clean. In June 2020, she announced her divorce from husband David Hollis. Her company, The Hollis Company (which she styles as HoCo) “produces content in every kind of media format: books, podcasts, movies, social and live events as well as physical products.” All, she writes on her website, with the goal of giving readers tools to make “permanent and lasting, positive changes in your life.” Subsequent books include Girl, Stop Apologizing and Didn’t See That Coming. Her self-help book, Girl, Wash Your Face has remained wildly popular since it was published in 2018 and has sold over 4.5 million copies, according to Hollis’ website. Rachel Hollis is an author, motivational speaker, and blogger with a huge online presence. But what happened exactly? Here’s a quick explainer to catch you up to speed. How the self-help book author apologized (several times over) to fans and followers for an insensitive post on TikTok. You may have heard a lot of chatter about a Rachel Hollis controversy on Twitter and Instagram since the beginning of April.
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