After 10 years, Chrissy Teigen is saying goodbye to her Twitter account.
She posted a goodbye on Wednesday and then deactivated her account, writing that “it no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively and I think it is the right time to call something.”
“For more than 10 years, you have been my world. Honestly, I owe a lot to this world that we created here. I really consider many of you to be my true friends, ”wrote Teigen. “My life goal is to make people happy. The pain I feel when I don’t do it is too much for me. I’ve always been portrayed as the clapping girl, but I just don’t …
“My desire to be loved and fear of irritating people made me someone you didn’t sign up for and a different human being than the one I started here! Live well, tweeters. Please know that all I ever cared about was you !!
“For years, I have thrown so many small punches and counted 2 followers that, at this point, I am sincerely deeply hurt,” she wrote, adding that she did not learn how to “block out negativity”.
“I’m just a sensitive guy, ok !? I don’t want to be like that! I just am!” she concluded. “But I love you and I really enjoy our time together. I hate you too.”
Teigen is no stranger to online trolls and has been a target for them over the years. In the past few weeks, she posted several times about the hatred she was putting online.
“Have you ever felt that everyone hates you? I feel like everyone hates me, “she wrote on March 19.” I’m not looking for you to tell me that you don’t hate me, I swear, please don’t hate me !!! it is simply oppressive. I keep seeing ‘how she didn’t disable those comments’ across platforms on anything I say and it sucks. “
That same day, she added that she didn’t feel she could do “anything well enough or right. I do not know. Perhaps just a difficult phase. “
Often, Teigen used his account to share food and jokes with his fans, but also disgust. Last fall, after reporting that she experienced a devastating pregnancy loss, she was accused by online critics of seeking attention.
Later, in a post on Medium, she told her critics that she didn’t bother with them.
“I can’t express how little I care that you hate the photos. How little do I care that it is something you would not have done. I lived it, I chose to do it ”, she wrote at the time.
Teigen’s departure from the online platform comes at a time when the treatment of female celebrities has been under investigation in recent months. Notably, celebrities flocked to Britney Spears in the midst of the #FreeBritney movement and a New York Times documentary reminded fans of “end-to-end breathless coverage” in Spears’ media before, during and after his public meltdown. in 2007.
Former child actor Mara Wilson recently wrote an article about how women in the spotlight have to endure undue criticism.
“The way people talked about Britney Spears was terrifying to me back then, and it still is now,” she wrote. “Her story is a remarkable example of a phenomenon that I have witnessed for years: our culture edifies these girls just to destroy them.”