A butterfly begins life as an unassuming caterpillar and then changes into a vibrant, flying creature seemingly overnight. Chrissy Chlapecka went through a similar metamorphosis as she transformed from a college student struggling with her identity to a pink-haired, self-proclaimed bimbo dominating TikTok’s algorithm.
“Right when we’d locked down for COVID, I was in a really horrible, abusive relationship and obviously wasn’t myself in any aspect—I’d really lost a sense of whatever self I even had,” Chlapecka says. “I remember going back home from college and being like, ‘What am I doing?’ I feel like when everyone had that time off, we all kind of stared at ourselves and faced all the things that were going wrong. I had broken up with my abuser and it was like I’d shed this skin
