I was excited to see what Naomi would share, in a memoir that promised to contain “all-new intimate and vulnerable essays” about her personal life.
Influencer memoirs are rare, and few have revealed in detail what it is actually like to make your family into a brand that can support all of you financially. Besides that though, I also had hoped to get insight into Naomi’s life as an OG blogger. Many followers, myself included, wondered if Naomi would use the book, published about a year later, to offer insight and reflection on this incident. The family has since relocated to Arizona, a huge change for a mom who once made living in Manhattan a core part of her brand, but Naomi has never fully explained that decision either. Not only did her choice, and subsequent sharing on social media, enrage some of her fans, but it also caught the attention of mainstream media like the New York Post, which called her a “runaway blogger.” Besides a brief apology at the time, Naomi has never addressed the incident or the impact it has had on her public perception and career. Last March, Naomi got branded, fairly or unfairly, as a selfish and out-of-touch example of everything wrong with influencer culture when she and her family left New York City in the middle of the city’s intensely scary COVID-19 outbreak. Not only have I followed Naomi and her career for years (she started blogging in 2007), but I also extensively covered one of the biggest hurdles she has had to overcome. I had anticipated reading this book for months. Unfortunately, the book is only surface-level, with so little insight into Naomi’s actual life that I am struggling to understand why she wrote it in the first place. And I am going to keep taking this seriously and am going to keep trying to be careful in the coming days and months.In her newly released first book A Coat of Yellow Paint, Naomi Davis, aka the wildly popular parenting blogger Taza, had a huge chance to show readers a different side of herself and get real about what it is really like raising five kids under the scrutiny of social media. “Just know that I was trying to be careful and trying to take care of my kids and my family. “I don’t know if it helps, but I am trying to do my best,” Davis wrote in a comment on Instagram on Monday. “We need to remember we’re all in this together and promote policies that protect everyone.”ĭavis has since responded to the backlash through Instagram Stories, as well as a comment on her original Instagram post. “This is no different than when the rich left the cities to the poor folks during the plague,” Harris told BuzzFeed. Drew Harris, a population health researcher and assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University who spoke to BuzzFeed about Davis’ decision to leave New York City, said that the public has a responsibility to the people around them to do whatever they can to contain the spread of the virus. But when they come down here now, the services here aren’t geared up for them.”ĭr. “We all love the summer people,” Joseph Mancini, the mayor of Long Beach Township in New Jersey, told the Times. “A backlash has grown on the outskirts of the New York region as wealthy people flee to summer homes to avoid the densely packed city, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis,” The New York Times reported last week.įor example, the population of Southampton has gone from 60,000 to 100,000 in just a few weeks as wealthy New Yorkers leave the city for vacation homes, according to Forbes.įull-time residents of beach towns have expressed frustration with the newcomers, with some local government officials asking the travelers to stay away for now, according to the Times. Davis is not the only New Yorker to leave the city in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
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