Fans criticize Girl, Wash Your Face life coach after privileged comments
Katherine Rosman, New York Times
April 28, 2021
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FILE Rachel Hollis and her now-former husband, Dave Hollis, record a podcast in Austin, Texas, March 5, 2019. Hollis, the best-selling author and motivational speaker, built a blockbuster business sharing her “authentic” self then things got a little too real. (Katherine Squier/The New York Times)KATHERINE SQUIER/NYT
May 14 was supposed to mark Rachel Hollis’ return to her happy place: a stage in front of an adoring audience.
That was the day that Rise, her self-improvement company’s conference for women, was scheduled to begin in Austin, Texas. At least 100 people would attend in person, and more than 2,000 had registered by mid-April to join online. It would be a fraction of her usual crowd nearly 50,000 people logged on for a virtual event in May 2020 but would put her on track to business as usual.
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Earlier this week, influencer and bestselling self-help author Rachel Hollis apologized for appearing to compare herself to Harriet Tubman. “I know I’ve caused tremendous pain by mentioning prominent women including several women of color whose struggles and achievements I couldn’t possibly understand,” the author of
Girl, Wash Your Face and
Girl, Stop Apologizing wrote in an Instagram post. The post served as her second apology over the controversy, which has been roiling on social media for nearly two weeks.
Hollis’s ill-fated Harriet Tubman comparison emerged in a now-deleted TikTok video posted in late March, in which she responded to charges that when she talks about “this sweet woman” in her employ who “cleans the toilets,” she sounds “unrelatable.”
Why the author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to apologize twice in a week Vox.com 6 hrs ago Constance Grady © Dave Pedley/Getty Images for SXSW Rachel Hollis speaks onstage at the 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals, on March 9, 2019, in Austin, Texas.
Earlier this week, influencer and bestselling self-help author Rachel Hollis apologized for appearing to compare herself to Harriet Tubman. “I know I’ve caused tremendous pain by mentioning prominent women including several women of color whose struggles and achievements I couldn’t possibly understand,” the author of
Girl, Wash Your Face and
Girl, Stop Apologizing wrote in an Instagram post. The post served as her second apology over the controversy, which has been roiling on social media for nearly two weeks.
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