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Trashy Divorces

Wondery Presents: Fed Up

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When Emily Gellis hears rumors of people suffering horrible side effects from a trendy diet she springs into action. Armed with over a hundred thousand Instagram followers, Emily launches a social media crusade to expose F-Factor and its founder, Tanya Zuckerbrot. It’s the start of a feud that will attract trolls, lawyers, and, eventually, national media all because of fiber. From Wondery, this is a story about wealth, wellness, and influence hosted by Casey Wilson. Listen to Fed Up: http://wondery.fm/TD_FEDUP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Friends, when you're scrolling through social media, are you sure that what you're reading

0:04.0

is really real?

0:05.9

Misinformation can be dangerous, especially when it's related to your health.

0:10.5

Anything can be posted online without being fact-checked.

0:13.8

But if you heard about the secret to permanent weight loss, wouldn't you want to give it

0:18.4

a follow?

0:19.4

Tanya Zuckerbrot, founder of the trendy high-fiber F-factor diet, has celebrity followers,

0:25.2

including Megan Kelly and Supermodel Olivia Colpo.

0:28.7

Tanya has a nice house, nice husband, nice vacations, a very aspirational lifestyle.

0:34.7

But allegations of troubling side effects with the diet began to surface, and people started

0:39.3

to wonder, is she selling powder?

0:42.2

Or power?

0:43.7

Emily Gellis, a popular fashion influencer saw all of these allegations and put the diet

0:50.0

on blast to her own large social media following.

0:53.8

She launched a crusade to expose Tanya and the F-factor diet.

0:59.1

Emily thought bringing awareness to the claims would be enough, but that was just the

1:03.3

beginning.

1:04.7

What started as an online feud escalated into the real world, resulting in threats, lawsuits,

1:10.7

and a whole lot of drama, you're about to hear a preview of Fed Up.

1:15.6

Listen to Fed Up on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music Spotify, or you can listen early and

1:20.9

add free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app.

1:24.5

Oh, summer in Manhattan, there is nothing quite like it.

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