A woman’s TikTok video about a year-long situationship has gone viral after she described discovering her partner’s phone contained messages with several other women, all of whom shared a similar body type to her own. The video, posted by Bella Vandala under the handle @vandala_effect, has received 4.4 million views, 338,600 likes, and more than 16,800 comments.
In the TikTok video, Vandala said she had been seeing a 27-year-old man for more than a year while she is 41. She said she did not take the relationship seriously at first because of the age gap and her own life circumstances, including the death of her children’s father in July 2024.