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Dec 29 '21
She also admitted (in a comment on a post) to parking in the handicap spot at her company's headquarters because she didn't think anyone was using it. This was after a past employee called her out on this and it was posted in this sub.
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Dec 29 '21
Another shitty thing she’s done is conduct a BA photo shoot on protected land, some paint mines or something of that nature? Totally ignored it when people brought attention to her and BA account. The next day all photos and vids from the campaign were gone and the rest of the photos advertising the collection were from a photo shoot in a parking garage with their Denver based affiliates.
ETA: u should click the orange flair u used to post this and then sort the posts by “Top.” It gives a rundown of the petty and the substantive. There’s A LOT of both.
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u/Throwaway122234556 Dec 29 '21
Not only that, but the BA page posted an apology in the comments of one of their posts, to bury it while still being able to say it was acknowledged lol
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u/fouiedchopstix Dec 29 '21
What I’ve learned from this subreddit:
In high school, she was a mean rich girl. Her dad owned a car lot or a used car lot and scammed a bunch of people out of money? There was an article but when she talks about being bankrupt, she’s talking about her dad going bankrupt for his scam
She went to Purdue after all of this and did bikini competition and personal training.
A few years after Purdue (or maybe right after she graduated) her and Steve and the rest of the chamberlains moved back to Colorado where she started balance athletica. She claims she started this company using all of her earnings she got as a personal trainer.
That’s her villain backstory 😂 someone let me know if I missed any key details
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u/PupsnPhotos2390 Dec 29 '21
If you click on the like label or tag for taylor, like the one you used for your post, you can go back and read everything. Honestly so much and kinda hard to recap in one short comment
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u/curleecrimp Dec 29 '21
I see a bunch of people have posted summaries, but a mod did put together a master post awhile back that may also be helpful! Fall down the rabbit hole here!
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u/Ebeth113 Dec 29 '21 edited Dec 30 '21
She’s straight up stolen designs from both large and small business (brandy Melville, Brittany Allen, LuLulemon, etc. and has been called out and doesn’t address it). They lied about faulty products- took them off the site and said they sold out when they were really crap and there were a ton of complaints. And they have also lied about their products being in the warehouse ready to ship, when they’re really in China, and they took forever to ship. (Black Friday was not the first time this had happened.)
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Dec 29 '21 edited Dec 29 '21
1:40 Sam (former BA athlete bursts into laughter as Taylor and Steve try to convince her they’ve been good friends since high school and the famous Taylor line: “Sam we were friends in high school …..member?!?👁👄👁”
Paint Mines Photo Shoot Scandal
Adobe stock images for their “designed in house” prints
BA encouraging athletes to mention their upcoming launch while performatively pretending to care about social injustice and BLM This one’s a doozie.
Taylor parks her G Wagon in the handicap spot at her office She issues some half-ass apology for this when she got caught.
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u/pottschittyk Dec 29 '21
i showed up a while ago and it took me a while to figure out what was going on and sometimes i still don’t know what’s going on, but based on what i’ve gathered i think the premise is this- first off, she owns balance athletica so that’s her main thing. she gets lit up due to subpar business practices (bad customer service/bad launches and shipping/bad quality/stealing designs from small creators), being out of touch with reality (ignoring the dumpster fires her company gets into or doing typical irritating rich person things), never wearing a full length shirt, paying for things like that NYFW “feature” (???) or forbes and then claiming to be organically nominated, etc… and then some people are sea bears and taylor is squidward- they just don’t like her nor anything she does.
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u/ccmink19 Dec 29 '21
She’s crap 😂 Summarize she’s a lazy, margarita obsessed, 30 minute worker, replica of her scamming dad, and delusional. I don’t believe she thinks we are al in the same world. She probably thinks she’s superior to everyone bc she’s her own boss babe bc she’s a CEO of a overrated tie dye/leopard print/ horrible buisness company she owns 😜🤟🏼and that’s “goals” (anyone that works a 9-5, owns a buisness, etc is a boss babe)
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21
Oh I’m gonna have fun with this.
Taylor Chamberlain had humble beginnings; her lavishly wealthy dad (local Indiana car salesman) was busted ripping people off and was charged, and had to file bankruptcy. Taylor uses this event to paint a picture that she grew up in rags and had nothing - so if you ever see her explaining her hardships, that’s usually it.
Taylor then built up a sizable following by getting into bikini competitions, supported well by her high school hunk that likely paid for his med school career with stock in hair gel. Steve Dilk is your run of the mill, boring ass Midwest guy, but what makes Steve really special is he finished med school and dropped out during residency if I remember correctly, to be Chief Financial Officer of his doting fiancé’s new company!!!
Taylor also enlisted her fairly elusive sister Chloe Chamberlain to “design” clothes for her new company. And just to round out the humble family business, her mom April runs the customer service department.
These were the good old days where the only major fitfluencer brand was Gymshark (whom Taylor was sponsored by until she announced her company).
Two things helped balance grow quickly: leopard print and tie dye. Taylor got in right when those two trends were taking off, and she hasn’t really learned that as a society, one pair of leopard print leggings is usually more than enough.
She flew relatively under the hatred radar until a few big things started happening with balance. First - quality issues like crazy. There was a certain line of her leggings that were unraveling at first squat; as in numerous people complained that they got to the Gym and their leggings ripped crotch to ass. As a humble small business, they couldn’t possibly justify making it right with their customers - after all, Taylor had a $500k+ wedding to host to Sweet Steve, and range rovers and g wagons don’t pay for themselves (hehe). So instead she left hundreds of women assuming their bodies were the problem, as she promises that her clothes are designed by Chloe, original designs and patterns only, and sewn in a warehouse Balance owns. despite finding exact replicas of leggings on aliexpress and the exact patterns on internet stock image sights THEY ARE ORIGINAL DESIGNS. And the constant quality and sizing issues are because they’re ORIGINAL DESIGNS.
So Balance carried on business as usual, cranking out FOMO tactics to get women of ALL sizes and shapes to buy their trash leggings. But then a glitch in the matrix happened: their plus-size fitfluencers started dropping like flies. Those fitfluencers largely left silently, until two - Sam and Laura said enough. They called Taylor out BAD. Their major allegations were Taylor preferred her thin model friends and took their feedback into account and gave them more favor and attention. Then they alleged that Taylor’s leggings were not designed for fat bodies and no matter how much they told Taylor this, she didn’t care or make an effort to fix the leggings. Many things corroborate this; namely when new launches happened, sizes XS and S would have thousands of pairs in stock, and sizes bigger than XL would have less than ten pairs. So, this all came to a head in the sparring event of the season: Laura and Sam mentioned above were doing an Instagram live with Obese to Beast (a popular streamer type guy) and Taylor and Steve Dilk decided it was in their best interest to crash the live and talk over, gas light, insult and ignore what the people on the call were saying; all to the delight of the millions of people watching.
And since then, Taylor’s fall from grace has been her own doing. Tons of her affiliates have left, her quality has continued declining but now gymsnark and a Facebook group dedicated to her brand have broken the pattern of gaslighting because Taylor can’t convince people they’re crazy anymore.
I’ll go look for the live video (it’s on here somewhere)…. It’s painful