ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatrist—Then She Met TikTok

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario to talk about Kendra, the woman whose 25-part TikTok series about falling in love with her psychiatrist has captivated the internet. However, what viewers thought would be the next Reesa Teesa “Who The Fuck Did I Marry?” series turned out to be something much more complicated, as Kendra’s story went from suspicious to downright troubling. Now, TikTok is diagnosing Kendra with mental health issues, while still consuming her content like entertainment. Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay.
0:15.1	And I'm Daisy Rosario, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:18.2	In case you missed it.
0:19.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Daisy,
0:22.7	welcome back to the pod. Well, back for you, but this is our first time being both on mic
0:28.7	together. How does it feel? I mean, it feels a little bittersweet because I'm here because our
0:34.2	own Candace's limb is out sick today. So Candice, feel better. We miss you.
0:40.0	Yeah, I talk to you every single workday for this show. I feel like you guys broke my,
0:45.5	you know, in case of emergency, break the glass and Daisy will sit in the chair. So, you know,
0:50.5	in that sense, I'm happy to be sitting across from you today. Yeah. And I mean, what better episode than this one?
1:04.0	Like, I don't know if there's been a story before this one that all of us, you know, you, me,
1:10.2	Candice, our producer, Vic, have been this uniquely
1:14.2	and separately invested in, which is the woman on TikTok who fell in love with her psychiatrist.
1:21.6	I fell in love with my psychiatrist and he knew and he kept me until I had the strength
1:26.5	to leave after four years.
1:28.6	Here it is, part one.
1:31.1	So, Daisy, what does your side of TikTok look like thanks to this story?
1:35.1	Oh, it absolutely looks like this story and then a breakdown of this story.
1:39.8	It just depends on which type of analysis of this story that you'd like to see.
1:44.7	But I honestly think that the more kind of jarring part to me is that I also see this all over Reels, which is how you know it is big.
1:53.9	Because Reels is usually like two weeks behind.
1:56.3	Right.
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