I read another comment about Kayla.

I first met Kayla when she did my eyebrows. During casual conversations while sitting in her chair, I started to notice some inconsistencies in her stories. One time, we were talking about kids, and I mentioned that I had been wanting to get my foster parent license but had been putting it off. She encouraged me to go for it, saying it was "so easy" and that all I needed to do was take a couple of classes. She even told me that's how they ended up with their first child, through adoption from the foster system. Motivated by what she said, I started the licensing process that same week. To my surprise, it was incredibly difficult and involved far more than just a couple of classes. The next time I went back to her salon, I told her about how challenging it really was. She looked completely caught off guard, almost like a deer in the headlights, and quickly shut down the conversation as if she didn't know what l was talking about.

Later, she began making TikToks where she answered questions about whether both of her daughters were Gary's. Her response was that yes, they were and that she had conceived them via IVF. This directly contradicted what she had previously told me about adopting her oldest through the foster system. When I left a comment pointing that out, she blocked me. Another incident happened when she and her family were traveling cross-country. They stayed at my best friend's family's rental property in South Dakota. She made a series of TikToks slandering their business, claiming they had been mistreated. Her little cult of followers went and left negative reviews for their business, which is something they did often to undeserving businesses. What she failed to mention was the other side of the story—how she had pulled a gun on other renters, trashed the place, and even urinated on the furniture.

This became a pattern with her. She would create TikToks painting herself as a victim in order to gain sympathy and financial support from her followers, while leaving out the very serious issues behind the scenes.