In March 2025, Remi Bader went on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast and said what a significant portion of the internet had been speculating about for over a year: she had undergone weight loss surgery.
The admission ended months of online debate, Reddit threads, and pointed questions from followers who felt they’d been misled. For a creator who built her entire platform on being the person who told you the truth about how clothes actually fit — who called out brands for bad sizing, who showed her stretch marks and cellulite instead of hiding them — keeping something this significant private had felt, to some, like a contradiction.
Remi Jo Bader is 31 years old, based in New York City, and has 2.2 million TikTok followers and over 845,000 on Instagram. She’s on the TIME100 Creators list for 2025, has a Forbes 30 Under 30 credit, and in 2026 made her debut as a rookie in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Her story is considerably more layered than her follower count suggests.
Before the Fame: Getting Fired, Fashion PR, and Finding Her Way
Remi grew up in New York and graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing. Her early career reads like a very particular kind of New York hustle: she interned at Black Frame PR during New York Fashion Week, worked as a senior reporter at Business of Fashion, and then landed a role as a Partnership Marketing Coordinator at Tidal.
That Tidal job didn’t last. She was let go — one of the two firings she referenced in her November 2025 conversation with Jason Tartick, titled pointedly “From being fired to powerhouse creator.” Losing that job turned out to be the opening. With her schedule suddenly clear in 2020, she filmed a Zara try-on haul and posted it online.
She described that video later as “the video that accidentally changed my life.”
It went viral because it was doing something no one else was doing with the same specificity. Remi didn’t just review clothes — she showed exactly how they fit on her size-16 body, called out sizing inconsistencies in real time, and used language that was funny, direct, and completely devoid of the flattering angles and Facetune most fashion content relied on. The format had a name: the realistic haul. She became its defining voice.
By March 2021, she was doing this full-time.
The Platform She Built and What Made It Different
Remi’s content is built on a simple premise: clothing brands market to one body type and often size inconsistently, and someone should say so clearly and publicly. That’s not a new observation, but the execution mattered. She had the fashion background to speak with credibility and the personality to make it watchable.
Her TikTok now has 133.2 million total likes. Her Instagram following sits at 845,000. Across platforms, she’s over 3 million followers combined.
The brand partnerships followed the audience. Revolve launched a plus-size clothing collection with her in 2022. Victoria’s Secret, Walmart, and L’Oréal all came next. She has an Amazon Shop and a resale closet on Pickle. Forbes named her to the Top Creators: Fashion 50 list in 2023.
For context on how rare that level of brand access is for a plus-size creator, consider that the fashion industry’s embrace of size inclusivity has been incremental and frequently performative. Remi’s ability to convert that into sustained commercial partnerships says something about both her audience’s loyalty and brands’ growing recognition that the size-16 consumer buys clothes too.
Creators like Leana Deeb and Golloria George have built comparable authority in adjacent spaces — fitness and beauty respectively — through the same mechanism: specificity, honesty, and an audience that feels seen rather than sold to.
The Weight Loss Timeline, From Ozempic to Surgery
This is the part of Remi’s story that drives the most searches, the most debate, and the most complexity. Here is what she has shared, chronologically.
In 2019, Remi was diagnosed with binge eating disorder. In May 2022, she announced she was entering a six-week outpatient treatment program. She shared that publicly at the time, framing it as part of an ongoing conversation about her relationship with food and her body.
What she didn’t share publicly was what came after. She tried Ozempic — the GLP-1 medication that had become both a medical tool and a cultural flashpoint. It didn’t work the way she hoped. When she stopped taking it, the binge eating “got so bad,” she later said, and she gained back double what she’d lost. She also tried Vyvanse and Wellbutrin. Neither produced lasting results.
In December 2023, she underwent SADI-S surgery — a form of gastric bypass. She told no one.
The decision to keep it private made sense in one context and created a different problem in another. Remi had built her platform on the premise of showing her body honestly and refusing to participate in the performance of perfection. When her weight loss became visibly noticeable in 2024, her audience noticed immediately. The speculation online was relentless.
By September 2023, before she’d publicly acknowledged anything, she posted a tearful TikTok calling out what she described as “disgusting” body-shaming comments and announcing that her health journey would be “her business.” In May 2024, she published an essay in Nylon setting boundaries around sharing any further details. In July 2024, another essay pleaded with trolls to stop commenting on her appearance, noting that the commentary was contributing to her own disordered body image.
The full reveal came on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast in March 2025. Shortly after, Slate’s ICYMI podcast ran an episode titled “Did Remi Bader Lie To Her Followers?” — which captured the fork in how people received the news. Some felt the transparency, even delayed, was enough. Others argued that a creator whose value proposition was radical honesty about her body owed her audience a different kind of disclosure.
Remi’s position has been consistent: “You don’t owe ANYONE any details about your personal health journey.”
That’s a reasonable principle. It also collides with the parasocial compact her content had created — one where followers felt part of the conversation. That tension is not entirely resolvable, and the ongoing r/remibadersnark community (over 7,300 members, generating roughly 28 contributions per week) reflects how unresolved it remains for a subset of her audience.
Mental Health, Depression, and Stepping Back
The weight loss story didn’t happen in isolation. Remi has spoken openly about anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, and sleep apnea (she’s mentioned a CPAP machine in her content). The E! News piece about her stopping posting framed it around her battle with depression, though she’s been careful not to over-disclose on her current mental health status.
She’s said repeatedly that she’s “putting mental health first” and that her body’s shape and size “does not determine who I am as a person.” The messaging has shifted from sharing the struggle in real time to protecting the process from public view.
That’s a significant evolution for someone who made her name by doing the opposite. Whether it reads as growth or retreat probably depends on how much you invested in the earlier version of her content.
The Ranch Incident No One Talks About Enough
In the summer of 2024, Remi went to a ranch and was turned away from a horse-riding activity because of her weight. She was publicly humiliated and forced to leave.
She shared this. It didn’t go as viral as her Ozempic timeline, but it should have — because it’s the clearest encapsulation of what she’s been documenting for years. The fashion industry has inconsistent sizing that excludes her body. The wellness industry has treatments that didn’t work for her body. And a ranch turned her away because of what her body weighed. The through-line in all of it is that public spaces, product systems, and service industries are still built around a narrow definition of who deserves access.
Her platform’s entire argument is that this is worth calling out. That incident was proof of concept.
Keyveat Postell and the March 2025 Breakup
Remi and Keyveat Postell dated for nearly two years before splitting in March 2025. By her account, he ended the relationship via text. She didn’t go into extensive detail publicly, but a TikTok posted in March 2026 — captioned “I’m better off single if you ask me” — confirmed where she stood a year later.
She’s not currently in a publicly known relationship.
SI Swimsuit 2026 and What It Represents
In 2026, Remi Bader walked her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shoot as a rookie, photographed by Ben Watts in Montauk, New York. SI Swimsuit has made a deliberate shift in recent years toward representing a broader range of body types — Ilona Maher was among the other profiles to receive that platform — and Remi’s inclusion fits that context.
For someone who started her career showing how Zara clothes actually fit on a size-16 body, the SI Swimsuit cover is a specific kind of full-circle moment. The industry she critiqued invited her into one of its most historically exclusive institutions.
The internet’s response was largely positive. The snark communities, predictably, had notes.
How Remi Bader Makes Money
Remi’s income streams are varied enough that a single net worth figure hasn’t been confirmed publicly — no reliable estimate exists from CelebrityNetWorth or comparable sources. What’s visible: brand deals with Revolve, Victoria’s Secret, Walmart, and L’Oréal form the commercial core. Modeling work — including SI Swimsuit — adds to that.
She revealed TikTok earnings in a Page Six TikTok appearance in November 2025, though specific figures weren’t published in coverage. Her Amazon Shop, Pickle closet, and Poshmark account represent additional income layers, albeit smaller ones.
Given her Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), Forbes Fashion 50 (2023), and TIME100 Creators (2025) recognitions, her career is operating at a tier where the numbers are significant — just not publicly confirmed.
Remi Bader in 2026
She’s newly single, a first-time SI Swimsuit rookie, and no longer sharing her health journey in real time. The content has shifted: Coachella recaps, concert posts, travel, and the occasional moment of candor about being better off alone.
The version of Remi Bader who posted tearful TikToks about body-shaming and the version who walked a Sports Illustrated shoot in Montauk are the same person. That’s actually the point she’s been making for years — that a body like hers deserves the same access, the same coverage, and the same range of experiences as anyone else.
Whether her audience follows her through this next chapter depends on whether they were invested in the format or the person. Based on the numbers, a significant portion is sticking around to find out.
Creators like Alix Earle have shown that audiences can follow a creator through significant personal evolution without losing the core of what made them compelling in the first place. Remi’s version of that evolution is messier and more contested — but it’s also, arguably, more honest about what growing up in public actually looks like.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Remi Bader famous for?
Remi Bader is a New York City-based content creator best known for her “realistic haul” format on TikTok — try-on videos that honestly show how clothing fits on her size-16 body, calling out inconsistent sizing and exclusionary fashion industry practices. She has 2.2 million TikTok followers and is credited with helping shift how brands approach plus-size marketing.
Was Remi Bader on Ozempic?
Yes. Remi Bader tried Ozempic as part of a broader effort to manage her binge eating disorder and weight. She has said the medication did not produce lasting results and that when she stopped taking it, her binge eating worsened significantly and she gained back double what she had lost. Ozempic was one of several medications she tried before pursuing surgery.
How did Remi Bader lose so much weight?
Remi Bader underwent SADI-S gastric bypass surgery in December 2023 after medications including Ozempic, Vyvanse, and Wellbutrin failed to produce lasting results. She kept the surgery private for over a year before revealing it publicly on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast in March 2025. She has been open about her binge eating disorder diagnosis in 2019 and a six-week outpatient treatment program in 2022.
What happened to Remi Bader?
In 2024, Remi stepped back from sharing her health journey publicly, citing the impact of body-shaming comments on her mental health. She was dealing with depression, anxiety, and the aftermath of her weight loss surgery. In March 2025, she and boyfriend Keyveat Postell split. She has since returned to consistent posting and in 2026 walked her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shoot as a rookie.
How old is Remi Bader?
Remi Bader was born on March 7, 1995, making her 31 years old as of 2026. She is a Pisces, born and raised in New York City, and currently based in NYC.
Is Remi Bader in a relationship?
As of 2026, Remi Bader is single. She and Keyveat Postell dated for nearly two years before he ended the relationship via text in March 2025. A TikTok posted in March 2026 — “I’m better off single if you ask me” — confirmed her current status.
