What a complicated person she is!
It is due to her jaw-dropping drab-to-fab beauty transformation videos that the self-proclaimed “Catfish Queen,” who is known to her over 121,700 TikTok fan-tribe as Gemluva Beauty, is reaching royal heights of viral fame.
Gemluva, whose true name is Patricia Lichtenberger and who is 47 years old, said to The Post, “I love catfishing.” According to the online makeup artist, who added with a giggle, “I have the ability to transform myself from a Mexican-Hispanic woman to a white woman if I so desire.”
She strategically structures her TikToks, some of which have amassed over 2.4 million views, to begin with unflattering images of herself without makeup or tamed tresses. This is what she means when she refers to “catfishing,” which is the act of luring a person or group of people into a false state of familiarity by creating a fake online look or persona. The mother of four lives in Kansas.
She chuckled and said that her preferred method for smoothing her complexion is to use the One/Size Butter Silk Concealer by Patrick Starrr, which can be purchased online for a price of $25. “I love shocking people,” she said.
She proceeded by saying, “It’s the best when I post my videos and people see me without makeup, then they see me with it and think I’m a completely different person.” She was referring to the revitalized and young appearance that her face paint creates. “They believe that I am my own daughter.”
Gemluva attributes her ability to continue broadcasting her cosmetic overhauls to her daughter Pamela, who is 22 years old. Gemluva attributes her ability to Pamela, despite the cruel abuse she gets on a daily basis from online trolls.
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“People say incredibly awful things about my face and my teeth,” Gemluva remarked, referring to remarks that were deemed to be offensive, such as “you’re so ugly” and “What’s wrong with your face? “Did you suffer a stroke?” bullies said in their letters.
During the epidemic that occurred the previous year, she went on to say, “I became extremely depressed as a result of the constant backlash and criticism.” “In addition to that, I had been diagnosed with fibroids. Due to the fact that I was losing a significant amount of blood and using a number of different drugs, I eventually developed anemia, which resulted in hyperpigmentation sores appearing all over my face.
Nevertheless, Pamela would not allow Gemluva to abandon her ambition of establishing a beauty positive platform for herself and other women, even in the midst of a physical and emotional crisis.
All the time, my daughter is encouraging. “Mom, you are such a beautiful person, and I am so proud to have you as a mother,” Gemluva said. “I am so proud to have you a mother.” “That is what motivates me to keep going.”
According to the cosmetics sorceress, “No one is going to stop me from being my beautiful and loving self.” This statement is directed for those who dislike her. Don’t bother watching my vids if you don’t like what you see.