Redeem now - Influencer Mikayla Nogueira said she'd been "falsely accused" of editing her body.
- In response, she filmed a "being fat for dummies" video showing herself before and after shapewear.
- "I actually love my body," Nogueira told viewers, "which I never used to be able to say."
Beauty influencer Mikayla Nogueira told viewers she'd been "falsely accused" of editing her body in videos and, in response, filmed a before-and-after of herself trying on shapewear to show the difference it makes.
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in."Welcome to 'how to be fat for dummies,'" Nogueira began the January 3 TikTok. "I'm going to teach you how to be beautifully fat, gorgeously fat — but snatched."
Beginning in a bra and underwear, Noguiera turned to show viewers different views of her body — "here's my stomach relaxed" — and shared her weight and height for reference.
"I've always had bigger arms, and I definitely have a curvature at the hip," she said, laughing, in the video that's since been viewed 13.5 million times.
"This is, like, just my body as it is, and I am totally happy with it. I actually love my body, which I never used to be able to say," Nogueira said.
Nogueira agreed that she "doesn't look anything like this" in the unspecified video she said commenters believed to be edited, "but that is because I'm wearing two pairs of Spanx."
On camera, she layers a Spanx pair that "immediately will get that stomach suctioned in" and a "little more intense" Maidenform pair on top to cinch her waist.
"The front is fucking snatched," Nogueira said, turning to the side to show viewers her side profile. "But, if I relaxed my stomach, I still look like this. I just would obviously prefer to show myself like this," she said, turning to show viewers a front-facing view and laughing.
Nogueira, who's beloved by viewers for her thick Massachusetts accent and perceived approachability, pulled on a red, one-shouldered dress over her shapewear and, later, added pair of heels she said she could only wear for 10 seconds, maximum.
"As you can see," Nogueira told viewers, "snatched. And there's no fucking filter — if I move my hands like this," she said, waving her hands near her waist, "I bet you the floor is pixelated because the camera can't fucking catch what I'm doing because I film on my fucking iPhone in the TikTok app."
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♬ original sound - Mikayla NogueiraFellow influencers Benito Skinner and Cyrus Veyssi commented in support of Nogueira.
Noguiera has often been the subject of TikTok controversy.
In December 2022, Nogueira fired back at a waitress who accused her and her family of being "rude," by originally apologizing and then walking the apology back, saying the TikToker was "fucking lying." Nogueira, who has 2.5 million followers on Instagram and 14.3 million on TikTok, received backlash in September 2022 after a nearly two-year-old video resurfaced of her appearing to complain about her job as an influencer. In a nine-minute response video on September 30, she announced a break from content creation to "get help" for depression.
In a December 28 Instagram post, she disclosed that she'd entered eating disorder recovery in the two months she spent away from social media. "My life changed in those two months," the caption read, in part. "The happiness I feel today is new, and something I am still getting used to."
Nogueira did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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