The story of TikTok's first family: the D'Amelios

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Some call them TikTok’s first family, others compare them to the Kardashians...   Meet the D'Amelio Family.

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00:00Millions of people watching your every move, that's like constant terror.

00:21If you have followers, you're not considered a person, you're just a thing that people get to

00:25judge and objectify and call names and bully.

00:56What is it like to be known as Dixie's sister?

00:58I was known as Dixie's sister for a really long time and it was not fun.

01:06Yeah you hated it.

01:08I felt like I was my own person and I did a lot of things that were very unique to me

01:13that we didn't share and I wanted to be appreciated for those things

01:18and instead I was Dixie's sister and that was frustrating.

01:22I don't care.

01:25Who loves the spotlight?

01:48Me.

01:49Well like you don't love it, you're just good at it.

01:52Yes you're good at it.

01:53Best at it.

01:55So

02:06uh

02:24wait

02:36You are a sweetheart, you're adorable, you know that the girls love you, our girls love

02:52you.

02:53She's like, I just love her more every day.

02:54I love her more every day.

02:55Yeah, they love you.

02:56So thank you so much for doing this.

03:06Sometimes I don't want to be happy, don't want it against me, if I'm down just leave

03:34me there, let me be sad.

03:47LA is a very tricky place and people get sucked in, but being around my parents and my family

03:53keeps me so grounded.

04:23Getting hundreds of thousands of hate comments per week is a lot to handle.

04:42Some of the most hurtful comments that I've read about myself online are, she's fatter

04:48than when we got her famous, or she's ugly, they don't like the way my face looks for

04:54some reason.

04:55A lot about my body shape, my body type, which it's close to home because I struggle a lot

05:02with body image, body dysmorphia, bad eating habits.

05:07No one really knows that.

05:08Sophomore year was very hard and I would go to therapy every week and I wouldn't talk.

05:14It has gotten that bad to the point where I felt like I can't go on.

05:26I want to try and keep that as normal as it was.

05:30I'm going to earn everything I do.

05:33I have no idea how this is going to work out.

05:36Knowing what I know about our family, we're going to get through it together to tell a

05:40true story of us.

05:49Showing our mental health journeys I thought was really important to both of us and how

05:53far we've come since filming.

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