TikTok star Ken Eurich opens up about the downfalls of internet virality: 'I'm constantly overthinking everything' - Yahoo Life

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Whether she is spilling the beverage connected her latest breakup oregon explaining the prevalence of "sharting" successful her romanticist life, Kennedy "Ken" Eurich has managed to crook oversharing into a full-blown career.

"I've conscionable ever been an unfastened book, similar my full life, similar a small spot excessively much," the 22-year-old tells Yahoo Life of her seemingly instant emergence to net stardom.

Through disclosing immoderate of the astir intimate and admittedly cringiest moments of her life, Eurich has amassed a pursuing of implicit 1 cardinal connected TikTok, has her ain footwear collaboration with Steve Madden and has been dubbed the "next Emma Chamberlain" by chap influencers — a surreal world for the Pennsylvania autochthonal who utilized to enactment connected a workplace earlier societal media fame.

'I unrecorded my beingness someway and I've managed to marque this a career," says Eurich, whose meteoric emergence has been exacerbated by the unfastened quality of her content. One of the videos that catapulted her to TikTok stardom included a humorous retelling of a hookup gone wrong successful which Eurich pooped — yes, pooped — her pants portion astatine a guy's house. But recapping the infinitesimal for the satellite to spot was a no-brainer, she says.

But her openness extends beyond fecal matter(s). Eurich has been rather candid astir her conflict with anxiousness connected her page, chronicling her acquisition with being diagnosed with generalized anxiousness upset and starting medicine connected TikTok.

Followers person praised Eurich for her willingness to stock the ups and downs of starting Lexapro; "normalizing anxiousness medicine is truthful important," reads a illustration comment. But it's not each affirmative feedback and affirmations. As her follower number grows, the contented creator progressively feels similar she has a people connected her backmost and nary shortage of viewers acceptable to "kick her erstwhile she is down."

"People similar to hate-watch people, you know? People are watching maine and I consciousness similar sometimes [they're] waiting for maine to gaffe up," she says. "I cognize that immoderate I say, if I'm being susceptible astir thing similar intelligence wellness oregon immoderate it is, I cognize that tin and volition beryllium utilized against me. Like, if idiosyncratic sees that I mightiness beryllium feeling a small weaker and struggling with intelligence health, sometimes I consciousness similar that brings connected the hatred comments adjacent more. People who don't similar maine are like, let's footwear her portion she's down."

Eurich says having her ain abstraction has helped her well-being immensely.

"My flat is my harmless place.This is wherever I consciousness similar nary 1 tin harm me. It's precise relieving," she says.

Her pets, Lil Ma, Baby and Minx, are besides immense factors successful her intelligence wellness.

"My animals particularly are my fig 1 happening I deliberation that helps erstwhile it comes to my intelligence health, much than immoderate medicine oregon talking to people," she shares. "I consciousness similar my pets are thing that genuinely assistance me. Getting a canine precocious gets maine retired of the house. ... I deliberation that's thing that a batch of radical with intelligence wellness astir apt conflict with, is getting up each day, getting moving. Taking attraction of idiosyncratic other has truly changed my life."

When she archetypal started her account, Eurich was surviving with her parents and gearing up to be assemblage college. Now she is bringing successful much wealth than her ma and dad, which was initially hard for everyone to reckon with erstwhile she inactive lived astatine home.

"It became this weird, astir combat for independence. Like, I felt similar I was truthful independent, I was making my ain wealth but I was inactive a child. I'm inactive a child. So it benignant of enactment this weird ... accent connected my household dynamic erstwhile I was surviving astatine location due to the fact that nary 1 truly knew what to do. Like, overnight, I was making much wealth than my parents, they were like, 'How bash we archer you no? Or 'How bash we power you?'" Eurich explains.

Her occurrence has besides led to bouts of alienation from her assemblage arsenic her existent beingness looks overmuch antithetic from the contented that resonated with truthful galore aboriginal on. Eurich has been vocal astir struggling to travel crossed arsenic suitably relatable.

"I started societal media for myself, and it doesn't consciousness similar adjacent though there's parts of my beingness that person changed similar crazy, due to the fact that of societal media, I inactive beryllium successful my country each azygous day, aftermath up, portion my coffee," she says. "It's not similar I'm a movie star, you know, going retired to reddish carpets."

Still, Eurich acknowledges the privilege of having a pursuing who holds her accountable and keeps her focused connected wherefore she truly started posting.

"Having an assemblage that is truthful invested successful the relatability of maine has helped maine due to the fact that you don't recognize it [but] sometimes with success, you're truthful excited for yourself that you're like, 'Oh, look what I bought,' and 'I tin bash this now,' and 'I tin bash that.' And sometimes it tin hitch your followers the incorrect mode due to the fact that they're like, 'Wait a minute, I can't subordinate to immoderate of this anymore.' It decidedly keeps you successful line," she says.

She notes that this summertime served arsenic a large world cheque arsenic she received sizeable backlash for the frequence astatine which she was purchasing and posting decorator handbags.

"There's a good line. You tin speech astir your successes, and you tin observe yourself, but you person to retrieve who got you determination and what they privation to see. Because that's truly honestly what's astir important with a occupation similar this. If you don't person radical loving you and supporting you and liking you, what are you doing?" she says.

Ultimately, Eurich sees herself stepping backmost from societal media astatine immoderate constituent — successful portion due to the fact that of the interaction it has connected her intelligence health.

"The main happening with societal media is dealing with different people's opinions.," she says. "Having to interest truthful overmuch astir what different radical deliberation of maine conscionable isn't bully for my intelligence health, particularly [as] idiosyncratic who struggles with anxiety. I'm perpetually overthinking everything arsenic is. So having different radical benignant of chime successful connected my beingness and overthink for maine is thing that I'm like, 'OK, I can't bash this forever.' I would emotion to spell into starting my ain business; that's benignant of thing that I'm moving connected close now. [And] dilatory backmost down from this societal media beingness that I have. I deliberation societal media is simply a large thing, and it's done truthful galore astonishing things for me, but it's astir like, 'You cognize what? I've seen what I needed to see. It's been real.'"

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