In early July a relatively unknown social media account posted a two-part story on TikTok that has since become the talk of the internet and travel community.
Who Is Meghan Reinertsen, Why Is She Trending?
Meghan Reinertsen, a nanny and actress, recalled the time she suffered an apparent bout of norovirus after eating an undercooked cheeseburger before her flight from Portugal to Newark, NJ. While she successfully made that flight, the budding social media darling revealed she “single-handedly got a flight out of Indianapolis cancelled,” after suffering diarrhea and vomiting on a flight from Newark to Indianapolis.
An apologetic Reinertsen‘s video reached 20 million TikTok viewers and thrust her into the limelight. “If that flight cancellation changed the trajectory of your life in a really negative way, I’m so sorry,” she said.
“I’m full body sweating, I’m crying, my insides are cramping,” she recalled of the moments that led to her to disregard the seatbelt warning and retreat to the bathroom where recalls “for the next 20 minutes, I have more diarrhea than any human should have in their life.”
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But that wasn’t all. She also suffered a bout of vomiting which led her to call for a cabin crew member as she remained in the lavatory for the rest of the flight fighting for her dignity.
The shame was just beginning though, as a flight attendant informed her that the next trip the Airbus was scheduled to make had been canceled.
“They canceled that flight because of me. The hazmat team [had] to come in and clean it, because [they didn’t] know if I’d brought [a disease] back from Portugal,” Reinertsen groaned.
“I am a biohazard,” she self-deprecatingly teased. “I am patient zero.”
Reinertsen Posts on Instagram for the First Time Since
Reinertsen’s initial video was published on TikTok in early July and while she’s posted on TikTok since then, she’s remained silent on Instagram – until now.
“July was spent building fairy homes in the forest and becoming the public face of diarrhea on the internet,” she said in the post while showing a carousel of photos from a recent trip to Jackson Hole, WY.
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Reinertsen now has more than 90,000 followers on TikTok where she’s racked up more than 3.5 million likes from fans of her viral poop story.
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