Within the wake of her previous tweets reemerging, Tinx says she’s “greater than cringing.”
Over the weekend, the 31-year-old TikTok star, born Christina Najjar, got here beneath hearth after previous social media posts—together with ones the place she took intention at Kim Kardashian, Tori Spelling, and different public figures by calling them “fats” and “pathetic”—resurfaced. She’s additionally being accused of resharing controversial political posts over the previous few years. In a press release shared to her Instagram April 24, Tinx stated she’s “past embarrassed” and “desires to personal it.”
“About 10 years in the past, I despatched some really nasty, imply, horrible tweets,” she wrote. “I referred to as people who I had by no means met fats, pathetic and ugly. I even referred to as Kim Kardashian fats, which is ironic contemplating she is my primary idol and individual I look as much as. Once I learn the tweets again, I’m ashamed and embarrassed. They’re imply spirited, and I’m not mean-spirited—however I was.”