In August, news came that food influencer and former top blogger Emilie Voe Nereng (26) and her boyfriend Torgeir Glomnes Johansen they had gone their separate ways.
Responds to criticism
Nereng himself shared the news on Instagram. In the period following the violation The former couple sold the shared apartmentand the same influencer bought a new place to live in Grünerløkka in Oslo.
Food used negatively
Nereng has been Norway’s biggest blogger for several years, but in recent years she has become famous as a food influencer and among other things has over 200,000 Instagram followers where she regularly posts recipes.
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day on Monday 10 October, the influencer shared an honest post. In the post, Nereng writes that although she didn’t want to, she was unable to “avoid using food in a negative way” after the August breakup.
“When it became too much for me, I found solace in the refrigerator. It sounds so cliché and stupid, but whatever, it seemed like that. I could sit there for hours and eat without feeling full,” she wrote.
Dagbladet has been in contact with Emilie Voe Nereng, who does not wish to comment further on the case, but is aware that the case is under discussion.
Racing against the food giant
“For me, perhaps the feeling of shame was the worst – which, with a background in nutrition, I didn’t know better and lacked self-control,” Nereng further wrote and described it as a sad pattern.
In the post, it appears that the influencer himself quickly reached out to a psychologist for help in dealing with emotions differently. However, Nereng points out that everything got better when she got better herself and that food has now “regained its original function” in everyday life.
The 26-year-old doesn’t hide that she finds it difficult to share, but in conclusion, Nereng writes that she believes the experience has made her a better nutrition consultant and a more understanding human being.
