For over a decade, YouTube star Eugenia Cooney’s extremely thin frame has sparked fierce concern from her followers – and now, some have become so worried about her wellbeing that they dialed 911 and urged police to step in.
It was revealed earlier this week that local law enforcement in Eugenia’s hometown had received a slew of frantic calls from her terrified supporters, who begged them to help her in some way.
However Eugenia’s tragic story began long before she became an internet sensation – when she was just an insecure and frightened little girl who became the victim of brutal tormenting and bullying at the hands of her peers.
The now-29-year-old has been open about how she was subjected to ‘severe bullying’ starting at age six, which became so intense she was forced to switch schools on multiple occasions – until she ultimately dropped out to be homeschooled instead.
She once opened up about how her peers would make fun of her looks, body shame her, and even turn others in the school against her – leaving her fiercely lonely and deeply insecure.
She turned to social media as an outlet, posting her first video to YouTube in 2011 – but it wasn’t until two years later that her online career really took off, when a video she shared in which she taught her followers how to twerk went viral.
Eugenia’s videos featured a smiley, bubbly young girl who loved experimenting with makeup and dressing up in cosplay – and the views soon came pouring in. But as her popularity soared, her weight began to dwindle.
It didn’t take long for her growing fanbase to become fiercely worried about the extremely frail social media star. And the fears over her health only sparked a deeper fascination into Eugenia’s life.
Rumors began to swirl about her family and upbringing – and some began accusing her mom of forcing her to post content against her will.
It seemed as though she was deteriorating in front of her millions of followers’ eyes, and they begged her to get help – but she continuously insisted that she was fine.
But in early 2019, Eugenia announced that she was stepping away from social media to get professional help.
She spent a month in rehab and another four months offline, and when she returned to YouTube that July, she vowed, ‘I’m doing a lot better and I’m going to continue to take care of myself.’
Unfortunately, since then, Eugenia has become visibly thinner, and fans have once again become worried about her feeble physique – this time, opting to get the police involved.
In the wake of the law enforcement’s recent involvement, FEMAIL went ahead and recapped Eugenia’s harrowing story – from what she has said about her eating disorder to the truth about her mysterious home life.
Childhood rocked by incessant tormenting: Eugenia was subjected to ‘severe bullying’ starting at age six, which forced her to switch schools many times before she eventually left for homeschooling
Eugenia – who was born on July 27, 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts, but spent most of her childhood in Worcester before eventually moving to Greenwich, Connecticut – has been very outspoken about how she was fiercely bullied as a kid.
In a YouTube video shared back in 2019, she explained that it started when she was only six years old.
She said as a result of the horrific tormenting she received from her peers, she was forced to switch schools numerous times before she eventually decided to finish her degree through homeschooling.
‘Bullying was something I dealt pretty severely with from the time I was six basically all the way through high school,’ she began in the video.
‘I know how harmful and hurtful it can be so I thought I would share my story and experience with you guys.’
Eugenia recalled being ‘hit in the head’ or ‘pushed against the wall’ by her fellow classmates.
And she said it only got worse once she started to ‘get interested in makeup’ during fourth grade.
‘People would make fun of what I’d wear or how I would do my makeup,’ she said. ‘Things like that.
‘People would make body comparisons between me and them, and pull up their shirts and be like, “I’m so much skinnier than you.”
‘Comments like that, they really bothered me at the time. They built up and they started really affecting me.
‘They would also make other comments about the way I looked. They made fun of my eyebrows, and said it looked like I had a unibrow.
‘People made fun of my eyelashes in high school, which is kind of a weird insult. This guy said my eyebrows were super ugly and way too long and I should cut them.’
Eugenia said the bullies would turn others ‘against her,’ which left her feeling like ‘everyone hated her.’
‘The popular girls didn’t like me and they would get their friends not to like me, and it just felt like more and more people were turning against me,’ she continued.
‘Suddenly it seemed like everyone hated me and more and more people were ganging up on me. And that’s not a good feeling.’
She explained that she would switch schools in the hopes that ‘things would get better,’ but that she would ‘always find herself back in that situation.’
She added, ‘Because of that, I’ve always felt like something was wrong with me. I never meant to cause any harm to anyone.’
The YouTube star said she ‘never did anything about it’ or ‘told anyone’ because she was scared that the bullies would retaliate.
‘I never really told anyone about it because I didn’t want to be looked at like a tattle tale,’ she shared. ‘I thought if I did that, people might hate me even more and be even worse to me.
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‘I never really wanted to stand up for myself because I was scared and I didn’t wanna be mean back to people. So I just let it happen and I didn’t know what to do about it.’
At the time, Eugenia admitted that the bullying ‘affected her really badly’ for years, adding, ‘It can have long lasting affects on people.
‘Bullying can lead to eating disorders and self harm. It can contribute to depression and anxiety and a lot of mental health problems.
‘I never understood why so many people would be like that towards me and why they didn’t like me. I guess I always hoping things would get better but things weren’t getting better.
‘I was very afraid to do anything. It was on a daily basis, people constantly making mean comments about me, no one wanted to be friends with me. I just felt very alone and things felt really hopeless at times.’
Turning to social media after years of loneliness: The vlogger started sharing videos in 2011 and quickly became an internet sensation, but as her popularity soared, her weight dwindled
Eugenia first started doing livestreams on the broadcasting service YouNow in 2011, soon after she started homeschooling, and later that year, she switched to YouTube.
She has said that she turned to social media as an outlet after spending so much of her life battling loneliness.
The first time she went viral was in May 2013, when she shared a video entitled How to Ratchetly Twerk – which showed her teaching her followers how to dance.
After that, Eugenia’s internet fame took off. She started sharing weekly vlogs about her life, and uploading videos that featured her trying out various makeup trends, discussing her favorite beauty products, and showing off her clothing hauls.
Her videos soon started raking in hundreds of thousands of views and her subscribers soared.
She became known for her quirky sense of style and her dramatic makeup looks – as well as her incredibly thin frame, which began to worry some of her growing fanbase.
As Eugenia’s popularity soared, her weight began to dwindle – and by 2015, almost every one of her videos was flooded with concerned comments.
But the YouTube star would often shut down rumors that something was wrong.
‘This is just how my body is,’ she responded to one viewer. She told another, ‘I’m not anorexic, I’m just naturally skinny.’
‘I don’t really feel like I have to go get help,’ she said in another video.
In 2016, more than 18,000 people signed a petition that called for her to be banned from YouTube after they claimed she was promoting anorexia.
At the time, she released a statement that read: ‘Some people are saying I’m a bad influence on girls.
‘I just want you guys to know, like, I have seriously never have tried to be a bad influence on YouTube or to influence anyone badly. I would never want to do that.
‘I have never told anyone to try to like lose weight or to try to like change the way they look or to look like me.’
She sparked more concern in 2018, when she revealed in a livestream that her weight had dropped to 84 lbs. She’s roughly five-feet-seven-inches tall, which meant her BMI was 13.6.
‘A BMI below 13.5 can lead to organ failure, while a BMI below 12 can be life-threatening,’ BMI Calculator has reported.
Eugenia’s family: Rumors have swirled for years that the star is being forced to make content by her parents, while others have branded them as ‘enablers’ – so what do we know about her home life?
For years, rumors have swirled that Eugenia was being forced by her parents to make content or keep up her online persona against her will.
Others have branded her family as ‘enablers’ and have slammed them for not doing more to help her.
The star’s family has done their best to stay out of the limelight, so very little is known about them – and the fact that they’re shrouded in mystery only fuels the speculation.
So what do we know about her home life? Well her brother, Chip, is present in a few of her old social media posts from 2012 and 2013, but since she rose to online fame, he hasn’t appeared on her profile at all.
Her dad has never been in any of her content, so some believe he’s not in the picture, while her mom, Deb, has popped up in a few of her videos over the years.
Eugenia once had her mom appear on camera to shut down rumors that she’s unhealthy.
‘I know her. I’m there at her doctor’s appointments. They all check out good. I’m not concerned,’ Deb insisted. ‘I know she eats, she takes good care of herself.
Admitting she has a problem: Eugenia announced she was stepping away to get help in 2019 and spent a month in rehab – and when she returned, she spoke about her eating disorder for the first time
In January 2019, Eugenia went from posing videos every day to disappearing from all of her accounts, and her sudden absence left many worried that something had happened to her.
After eight days of social media silence, she announced on Twitter that she was taking a break to ‘work privately with a doctor.’
Then, in July 2019 – after five months of being off the web – Eugenia sat down for an emotional chat with fellow YouTube star Shane Dawson, during which she admitted for the first time that she had an ‘eating disorder.’
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In the video, she explained that she decided to get help after a group of her friends ‘brought up’ a series of ‘concerns’ they had regarding her health.
She was then put on a 5150 – a 72-hour psychiatric hold – at a hospital in Los Angeles. After that finished, she headed to a recovery center in Connecticut, where she stayed for four weeks.
‘It was a really weird experience. When you go from being the real world to entering that, it’s so different,’ she said of being at the facility.
She compared it to being in a ‘boot camp,’ explaining that it was ‘very scheduled’ and she was constantly under ‘observation.’
‘As you’re eating, you’re kind of being watched. And afterwards, for meals there would be an hour observation period and for snacks there would be a half hour,’ she shared.
‘When you go to the bathroom you have someone observing you, they’re right outside the door. So it’s all about being watched which is really strange.’
She said she was put on a ‘food plan’ and admitted that it was extremely ‘hard’ for her ‘at first.’
‘It can seem like a lot going in there and suddenly having to eat so much,’ she explained.
‘When I found out how low my weight was, it was really shocking to me. I didn’t realize, I didn’t see it was getting to that point.’
When asked by Shane about how she got to that point, Eugenia explained that she ‘never had the highest self esteem’ and admitted she ‘can be really critical of herself.’
She added that there were times when she ‘knew she wasn’t eating enough’ and should have been ‘taking better care of herself,’ but she didn’t want to admit that she had a problem.
‘It’s like smoking, people know in their brains that they should stop but it’s hard to just stop and try to be better,’ she said. ‘I was still eating every day but I guess it wasn’t really that much.’
She added that while she hopes speaking out about it will encourage others who may be struggling to get help, she doesn’t want her eating disorder to be the only thing she’s known for.
She admitted that she hated how it seemed like people ‘only talked about’ her problems and treated her like ‘there was nothing more to her.’
‘It was almost like there was nothing else anyone cared about and it made me feel like I wasn’t human,’ she concluded.
‘It’s important for people to know that if you’re dealing with an eating disorder or a mental health disorder, that’s not who you are, there’s more to you than just that. Don’t feel like your whole identity is that one thing.’
Growing fears: Since then, Eugenia has continued to spark concern due to her frail figure – and some of her fans became so worried recently that they started calling the police in her neighborhood
After that, Eugenia started posting regularly on YouTube again, and she insisted that she was ‘doing a lot better.’
‘I was in a rehab program for about a month. It’s kind of hard to talk about but I wanted to let you guys know that I’m doing a lot better,’ she shared in the first video she posted following her time away.
‘I really needed a social media break while I was in treatment. Even afterwards, I needed to take time to myself so I could try to take better care of myself because I think for a while I really wasn’t. I wasn’t even realizing how bad things were getting. It was a lot.’
Eugenia admitted in the video that before she went to rehab, the internet had become ‘pretty toxic’ for her and was ‘causing her to feel really overwhelmed.’
‘It’s scary coming back on here because the internet can be so toxic. But I hope you guys are nice to me,’ she added.
‘I needed to take time to myself and learn to take better care of myself. Which I am definitely trying to do now. I’m trying to do my best with everything.
‘This whole process was honestly pretty difficult for me but it is exciting that I’m doing better now and I’m excited to get back into things and get back on here, even though it’s scary.’
In another video posted months later, Eugenia begged her followers to stop bringing up her disorder.
‘It’s scary to talk about. I would like to be more open but I’m afraid because I don’t want to trigger people with anything I’m saying,’ she said.
She added that people who leave comments accusing her of relapsing or say it looks like ‘something is wrong again’ only make her recovery ‘harder.’
‘That just makes it harder for me to talk about and it puts pressure on me, to be honest,’ she replied in one video.
‘I’ve been trying to make sure that I’m continuing to take care of myself and keeping on top of myself with everything, which I have been.’
Unfortunately, since Eugenia has continued to spark concern due to her frail figure.
Another petition popped up on Change.org in October 2020, asking her to be removed from YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter, and it got more than 53,000 signatures.
Most recently, her appearance left so many of her followers terrified for her wellbeing that they actually started calling the police in her neighborhood in the hopes that law enforcement could help her.
Greenwich Police Sergeant Brent Reeves confirmed to TMZ earlier this week that the police department had been flooded with numerous calls from her worried fans.
He insisted that she was completely safe, explaining that he has known the vlogger for more than a decade – and that they had created a secret code she could use to signal if she needed help.
The sergeant added she had always had a skinny frame, and insisted that she does eat and ‘especially likes’ chicken sandwiches.
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