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Trying to be an Instagram star costs a lot more than you think (링크)

A woman who tried to make her life Instagram worthy went flat-broke in the process.

Lissette Calveiro, who is now 26-years-old, moved to New York for an internship in 2013 and said she felt she was living the 'Sex and the City' dream.

The only problem was she was going broke trying to keep up appearances on social media with brunches, new outfits, and jet setting, all to impress her followers, reports The Daily Mail.
Her internship only provided a travel stipend, so she worked a part time retail job to supplement her income that went entirely to her quest for photo lifestyle perfection.

"I wanted to tell my story about this young millennial living in New York," Calveiro said to the New York Post.

After her New York City internship, she moved home to her parents place in Miami where she was working in public relations. After, she accepted a job and returned to the Big Apple for another PR gig that allowed her to keep chasing the Sex in the City Instagram-dream.

She currently has more than 12,000 followers on Instagram.

"I was shopping... for clothes to take 'the perfect gram.'"

She says that despite moving back to Miami and getting a full-time job as a publicist Calveiro was $10,000 ($13,000 NZD) in debt trying to keep up on Instagram.

"I was living above my means," she said.

Her expenditures trying to cultivate the perfect looking life were enormous, with $200 US monthly shopping sprees so she'd never show the same outfit, and a monthly splurge on a designer item like a $1300NZD Louis Vuitton purse or an accessory from Kate Spade.

새로운 어휘

flat-broke : having no money at all

stipend : a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance.

travel stipend : A travel stipend usually covers your air ticket/mileage from your place of residence to the place where the event is happening, and back. If you're driving long distances some organizations cover your hotel expenses as well, if you have reasonable breaks in the journey.

I was living above my means : If you're just holding your own, that is your balance remains the same from month-to-month, this is a pretty good sign that you're living above your means

expenditure : spending, paying out, outlay, use, disbursement, doling out, waste, wasting, frittering (away), dissipation. ANTONYMS  saving, conservation.

sprees : binge, bout, orgy, splurge, session.

splurge : an act of spending money freely or extravagantly

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