In the video shared to Instagram, Rachel Hollis responded to a commenter who found her "unrelatable" after she mentioned having a housekeeper "come twice a week to clean my toilets" and the influencer did not take it well. "Someone commented and said 'You are privileged AF.' And I was like, 'You're right, I'm super freaking privileged. But also, I worked my ass off to have the money — to have someone come twice a week and clean my toilets,'" she said. Hollis approached the hole she wouldn't stop digging herself into, adding, "What is it about me that made you think I wanna be relatable?"
It could be the fact that her books try to relate to her audience with cutesy anecdotes and revelations about herself (via Time). "No sis, literally everything I do in my life is to live a life most people can't relate to. Most people won't work this hard. Most people won't get up at 4 a.m. Most people won't fail publicly again and again just to reach the top of the mountain," she continued, finally coming to the conclusion, "Literally every woman I admire in history was unrelatable. If my life is relatable to most people, I'm doing it wrong."
While the video was already tone-deaf, ignoring structural and racial privileges that helped her career, Hollis' caption was the icing on the cake with references to other "unrelatable" women like "Harriet Tubman, [Ruth Bader Ginsburg], Marie Curie, [and] Oprah Winfrey."
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