You're listening to In Perfect Paradise from LAa Studios. I'm your host Antonia Sirejito.

This is the final part of our four-part series People versus Karen.

In the last episode, Katie Sorensen's criminal case

headed to trial.

Somebody's gonna learn from this.

If it's not her, it'll be somebody else.

Somebody will see this and say, hey, you know, think twice before you post

some crazy lies online. And Katie was found guilty.

As part of his legal strategy, the prosecutor had argued that Katie was a, quote, momfluencer gone wrong. In this episode, we explore what exactly is a momfluencer, and how do some women go from using

their social media following to make money to then spreading lies?

I think it's really easy for mothers to disseminate these messages in ways that like

screaming men on 4-chan cannot.

That's coming up on Imperfect Paradise from Alaya Studios. The idea of what a good mother is is really central to this story.

When Katie Sorensen calls the police to report an attempted kidnapping,

she believes she's being a good mother.

When Sadie Martinez is falsely accused of attempted kidnapping,

part of why she's so offended is that being a mom is so core to her identity.

When Katie is sentenced to a month in jail, Eddie Martinez has mixed feelings because

as a father he knows how difficult it will be for her children to be without their mom for a month.

But he also feels like mothers of color are imprisoned all the time.

I wanted to talk to Elleist correspondent Emily Garin about this because it was her curiosity

about the idea of the good mother that actually brought her to the story in the first place.

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