Bankrupt influencer brags about her ‘addiction’ to online shopping in tone-deaf sponsored post, revealing it got ‘fifty times worse’ when she discovered cashback apps
She recently filed for bankruptcy after accumulating a pile of debt that she can’t pay back.
But Aussie influencer Christie Swadling is now bizarrely encouraging her followers to spend more online.
Swadling, 26, shared a sponsored post for a cashback app on Thursday, boasting about her “online shopping addiction.”
While urging her followers to use ShopBack for all their online purchases in the tone-deaf post, she said her own spending habits had “got 50 times worse” since using it.
“This is literally not okay. My addiction to online shopping just got 50 times worse,” she said of the shopping rewards app.
Christie Swadling, 26, recently filed for bankruptcy after racking up a pile of debt she can’t pay back – now she’s encouraging her followers to spend more online
The YouTuber added, “I’m a savvy shopper. I’ve been using ShopBack for years.”
Documents leaked online in February showed the social media star was in financial trouble, even as she projects a lavish lifestyle on social media.
It was revealed that Swadling was out of business after an anonymous user on the Tattle Life forums paid $15 to obtain the paperwork for her bankruptcy filing.
The Instagram model listed her job as an “advertising and marketing professional” in the publicly available document filed Dec. 29.
The influencer shared a sponsored post for a cash-back app on Thursday, boasting about her “online shopping addiction”
While encouraging her followers to use ShopBack for all their online purchases, her tone-deaf post said her spending habits had “got 50 times worse” since using it
Her bankruptcy status is “undissolved,” meaning she has yet to repay certain debts and she cannot re-borrow from financial institutions without the announcement of her bankruptcy.
While the release of the debtor’s petition did not specify outstanding debts, the Australian Financial Securities Authority says a creditor must ask for $10,000 or more to put you out of business.
On April 20, Swadling went to court for a financial inquiry to evaluate her property and financial circumstances as a means of satisfying court debt.
She carried a Louis Vuitton handbag worth a whopping $2,840 as she prepared for the investigation to determine if she was able to repay her debts.
Documents leaked online in February showed TikToker was in financial trouble, even as it projects a lavish lifestyle on social media
It was revealed that Swadling was out of business after an anonymous user on the Tattle Life forums paid $15 to obtain the paperwork for her bankruptcy filing