I Filed For Bankruptcy After Lularoe And Now Work 2 Jobs

we work on a new offer okay $14.10 you but it's downtown I'm gonna accept it okay let's go [Music] I just feel like you know like I failed I I'm embarrassed and now I'm just trying to fix my mistakes like I'll do whatever I can to make it make it right you know and get myself back on track looking back you know on my time with lularoe they just felt like I was untouchable basically I just and I just wanted to keep making more like it was never enough like if I made twenty five thousand the next month I wanted to do thirty thousand so it just I got addicted to working I guess when I got addicted to the sale and now I have thousands of dollars my brand-new car got repoed after I was successful with lularoe [Music] hi Madison once I earn full time income for part-time work ask me how flexibility independent satisfying fashionable fun and at one point I did believe all this for sure my name is Jill Tommy and I was a lularoe consultant I was a part of lularoe for about a year and a half a little bit more than that but yeah a year and a half [Music] [Music] I decided to sign up in February of 2016 my very first month I didn't know what I was doing what I was getting myself into and I did almost $10,000 so I was like oh my gosh like this is awesome like and by July you know I was like I should quit my full-time job and do this the next month a 15,000 384 and I was so close to hitting or I guess I did hit the mark for cooze qualifying to qualify for the loup-garou cruise you had to earn 12,000 to $18,000 a month for six months straight it felt awesome I was so excited I posted I was just elated I finally felt I found something career-wise that meant something to me and I was like hey I'm good at this like I think I found my passion I was consumed absolutely consumed I wouldn't see like my friends like I would barely leave my apartment and so I just I was excited I thought I was living the life but I didn't never had time to really enjoy it so often number one I have an extra small brandy and it's paired with mashing os ladies my biggest month was thirty seven thousand five hundred and sixty six and then I would average about twenty five twenty to twenty five thousand and so June is when it started to dip and each month after that I felt like sales would just get worse and worse so I think when I was filming this like it was a brand-new year and I had like hope that I would get back to where I was but deep down like I was really sad at this point member who was just bad I actually hated going on camera and doing lives to sell but I was willing to do anything and everything and that included taking out loans to buy new inventory cuz you know all my customers saw what I had and I couldn't get new inventory and it was just there's only so many ways you could be creative with a triangle print you know what I mean so sales just kept declining and I think it was a lot of factors it's not any one factor there was an overall I guess negative feeling about the company and the holes and leggings and there was lawsuits starting to surface that I would get PMS from customers like hey what do you think about this lawsuit and it just that overall negativity started to come through and I think hurt sales and I felt like I was just spending more than you know selling I just didn't want to tell my family I was so embarrassed I never told my mom that I was quitting or that sales were down I'd never told her the truth because I was scared that she's gonna be disappointed in me I literally had to be dragged out of bed had no makeup on I looked like crap hadn't taken a shower I just was so depressed and she's like Jill what's going on and so I told her she understood and she was like Jill you need to go back to work and she kind of gave me a pep talk and I had to go back to work so after the New Year I went back to work full-time I started a new job as a claims analyst and what I'm trying to do now about the amount of taxes I owe the bills that I owe my car that was repossessed I need to file bankruptcy and so I have a bankruptcy attorney that I've worked with before in the past back in 2015 I filed chapter 7 bankruptcy it was because I was shopping too much I was addicted to shopping I mean it sucks to half be 34 and going through bankruptcy twice like I feel like the biggest failure I just feel so stupid [Music] right now I feel so vulnerable I feel like my wages can get garnished you know I have creditors calling me I get notices in the mail of everything that I owe and I think once I am filed that'll help lift a lot of heavy stuff off my shoulders to file for bankruptcy with the attorney that I'm going with it's $2,000 and so I just don't have that kind of money laying around so I work a second job to help pay for pay for that so at night and weekends so my second job GrubHub I generally make 80 to 100 dollars per night to help pay my lawyer and anything else that I need to help paying on while I go through this so I think the reason why I'm so positive is because a few years back I was diagnosed with cancer breast cancer and being a cancer survivor is helping me get through this time because I know that it can get better it's not the end of the world I have a roof over my head and I have people that love me and it'll get better so I guess that's where I draw strength from [Music] right now I have about 40 pieces left of inventory so tonight I am going to donate the rest of my little ro it'll be gone from my apartment and I'm actually looking forward to that cuz I feel like I'm closing the book on that I'm closing the book on my lularoe chapter [Music] hi mom so I just finished dropping off the last of my lularoe yeah those people running that company yeah I'm trying not to be bitter and I just roll my eyes okay well I'll talk to you later and I hope you have a good night and I love you so much mom okay all right bye [Music] [Music]

Channel: VICE

Views: 312,142

Rating: 4.5607786 out of 5

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Id: l_eikkwz8nc

Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/shmebbles]

JFC....her mom was right comparing lularoe to cancer. I feel sorry for her, but it sounds like she has some impulse control problems. Being addicted to shopping and getting into an MLM is a recipe for disaster.

[u/MrStomp82]

She talks about averaging 25k a month in sales. I wonder how much of that actually went in her pockets.

[u/blobfish_brotha]

Someone at Vice has it out for Lularoe, and I'm here for it.

[u/porcelain_queen]

Okay so I totally don’t like MLMs and I think they are shitty but also some of these women need to hold themselves accountable and realize that they made some really poor decisions. I know that might be an unpopular statement but it is true.

[u/eihslia]

It’s just a very bad business model for everyone but the upper level. They give unattainable examples of “success stories,” that aren’t reality for the average person.

My MIL got suckered into 31 (the bag company), and lost so much money. We had 5 different people on our street trying to sell these bags, it was ridiculous.

[u/Futurames]

The fact that she’s selling for another MLM makes me lose ANY sympathy I may have had for her. She has faced the consequences of working for one of these companies first hand and she had no problem trying to rope people into a other one.

This lady deserves everything that happens to her.

[u/libertyUindangaGURL]

This is so sad.

[u/LizzyMacTownie]

This is just so sad.

[u/deathlevel]

This was so heartbreaking to watch. I wish I could give her a hug.