Influencer Catherine Ebs is speaking out after facing backlash for a video about a small town grocery store.
“What a week it has been. I wanted to come on because I’m not someone to not address the situation, especially at this scale,” Ebs shared in a Tuesday, July 14, Instagram video. “I took the week off to kind of be with my family while they were in town.”
She continued, “Looking back, the video I posted walking in the grocery store — did I 1,000 percent have a bratty, bad attitude? Yes. I was very, very, very frustrated with the day. I spent weeks to make sure that everything went to plan and us girly pops putting all the pressure on our shoulders to make sure family birthday parties, family parties, family weekends, family trips, everything goes well.”
Ebs faced criticism when she filmed a vlog acquiring groceries inside a Sam’s Club in Montauk, New York, in which she criticized the appearance of the fruits and vegetables before suggesting the group “order out.”
In her Tuesday video, Ebs explained that she felt like the day was a “stimulation,” sharing that “everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong.”
“On the flip side, watching it back through the lens of others, I am now well aware that my day stressors were not [reflected] in the video,” she said. “It was just a bad attitude. Bad energy. And now when I look back, I cringe because my intent versus the impact are miles and miles and miles apart. That’s not me. That’s not me. That video does not reflect my own true character, my own true thoughts. I come from way, way, way less than what I have now, so I know what it’s like to not be able to feed your family, going to bed hungry. That just was the furthest thing [from] my intention.”
Ebs explained that she wouldn’t have posted the video if that is “what [she] knew was landing,” adding that she hopes “people can understand” where she “was coming from.” Ebs went on to note that the bullying she experienced has been “unbelievably eye-opening.”
“I wish the people that took this moment for their own virality — if they meant to make such an impact and they wanted to make such an impact — I wish they would have been like, ‘Hey let’s like let’s use her name for the clout, but let’s use it for impact. And the impact is every single person does deserve fresh produce and not bleached eggs, not rotten cucumbers — like, everyone deserves that,” she said.
