A Pennsylvania mom’s TikTok video confessing her family’s struggle living paycheck to paycheck left her stunned after gaining 1.5 million views.
“I feel like my husband and I are doing everything right. We both have good jobs. I’m a registered nurse who works full-time. He works full time,” Mackenzie Moan, a mom of two, said in the video.
“We just got paid this past Friday, right? We paid the mortgage, bought some groceries, put some gas in the car. Guys, it is Tuesday, and we have like $200 or $300 to last us until next Friday.”
In the video, Moan described how her husband, Steve, works overtime every week while she works full-time and is also a full-time student.
“I don’t know what to do,” she cried. “I’m so stressed out.”
Moan, told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy on FOX & Friends Weekend she never intended for the video to go viral.
“I didn’t really have any intentions when I posted the video. I had maybe five videos that I had posted to TikTok prior to that, and I just needed to vent in the moment,” she said.
“I needed to vent to my phone and just get the words out of my brain with all the stress that I was feeling. I had maybe 30 followers before I posted that video, and I didn’t ever intend for it to spread as much as it did,” she added.
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♬ original sound – Mackenzie
