The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach
I Was Caroline Calloway
Seven years after I met the infamous Instagram star, I’m ready to tell my side of the story.
By Natalie Beach
When I was a sophomore in college, I took a creative-nonfiction workshop and met a girl who was everything I wasn’t. The point of the class was to learn to write your own story, but from the moment we met, I focused instead on helping her tell her own, first in notes after workshop, then later editing her Instagram captions and co-writing a book proposal she sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It seems obvious now, the way the story would end, but when I first met Caroline Calloway, all I saw was the beginning of something extraordinary.