Sometimes a girl needs her privacy. But there are moments when she needs the right schmear on her bagel even more.
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was spotted barefoot in her pajamas outside her Los Angeles home Saturday, apparently hoping to correct a problem with her Uber Eats delivery order.
The 28-year-old social media persona told The New York Times she is trying to lay low lately, demanding that people respect her boundaries despite the intimate details of her gender transition and hookups she shared in her new book, Paper Doll: Notes From a Late Bloomer.
But Mulvaney’s call for privacy didn’t stop her from being seen on her driveway Saturday in a red gingham pajama set, its shorts twisted at her waist as if she had just woken.
Bed-headed and without makeup, let alone shoes, she waited for the return of the driver who seemed to have delivered the wrong order from Yeastie Boys – a Southern California bagel chain that touts itself as the ‘home of the LA bagel.’
Mulvaney had removed a wrapped food item from a white paper bag seemingly in hopes of trading it for the correct order.
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, 28, was spotted barefoot in her pajamas outside her Los Angeles home Saturday
Mulvaney was spotted trying to correct her Uber Eats order from Yeastie Boys – a Southern California bagel chain that touts itself as the ‘home of the LA bagel’
She looked frustrated when she saw the Uber driver was no longer there so she could get her correct order
Lox instead of pastrami, perhaps? Or maybe plain cream cheese instead of scallion? Whatever the mix-up, she looked determined to correct it and frustrated to find that her driver had already left, despite her efforts to flag them down.
Mulvaney has made headlines recently for her tell-all memoir reflecting on her transition from male to female, rise to fame as a social media influencer and some of her controversies, including her role at the center of a massive Bud Light boycott in 2023.
The influencer grew up in what she has described as a conservative Catholic family in the San Diego area.
She started her career as a stage actor, appearing in several musicals – including a touring production of The Book of Mormon – before finding herself out of work when Covid shut down the show in 2020.
That’s when she started making video diaries of her transition from male to female.
Her candid, humorous and sometimes raunchy reflections focused on the changes happening not only with her body but also with her relationships and how the world responded to her.
Bed-headed and without makeup, let alone shoes, she hurried down the driveway in a red gingham pajama set, its shorts twisted at her waist as if she had just woken
Mulvaney recently told The New York Times that she has been trying to lay low and demanded people respect her privacy, but this didn’t stop her from emerging from her house to get the right schmear on her bagel
After leaving the acting world when Covid-19 hit, Mulvaney hit the limelight through her Days of Girlhood video diary series on TikTok which documented her transition from male to female. Through this, she began securing brand deals, which also came with public backlash
The influencer’s new book Paper Doll: Notes From a Late Bloomer reflects on her transition from male to female, rise to fame as a social media influencer and some of her controversies, including her role at the center of a massive Bud Light boycott in 2023
Days of Girlhood, her daily series of videos posted on TikTok after she came out as a woman, gleaned more than 10 million followers worldwide and, as she has told it, sought to normalize a process often shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.
Meticulously coiffed and lipsticked and dressed like a demure Audrey Hepburn, Mulvaney became a spokesperson for Kate Spade New York.
Her appearance on an Ulta Beauty podcast drew transphobic comments and prompted a social media campaign seeking to boycott that company.
Conservatives slammed the beauty chain for using a person who wasn’t born biologically female to represent the experience of being a woman.
Mulvaney didn’t demur and used her fame to advocate for trans rights such as her conversation with then-president Joe Biden in 2022 when he told her that Republican attempts to outlaw gender-affirming care for trans youth in some states were ‘immoral’.
Right-wing activists and leaders only stepped up their attacks, with GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn posting on social media that ‘Dylan Mulvaney, Joe Biden and the radical left-wing lunatics want to make this absurdity normal’.
Mulvaney didn’t shy away from the public backlash and used her fame to advocate for trans rights, leading to her speaking onstage at the Human Rights Campaign on February 1
Meticulously coiffed and lipsticked and dressed like a demure Audrey Hepburn, Mulvaney became a spokesperson for Kate Spade New York
The influencer, utilizing her trans advocacy, snagged an interview with then-President Joe Biden who told her that Republican attempts to outlaw gender-affirming care for trans youth in some states were ‘immoral’
Her Bud Light endorsement created a wave of backlash. Singer Kid Rock joined in posting a video of himself shooting up several cases of the beer with a submachine gun
A sponsored post, in which Mulvaney promoted a Nike sports bra and a video of her applying Maybelline cosmetics, prompted further hateful posts and calls to boycott both companies.
But by far her biggest controversy came in 2023 when Mulvaney, a beer lover, posted a video during March Madness endorsing Bud Light.
The spot reportedly led to bomb threats at several Budweiser factories and inspired right-winger Kid Rock to post a video of himself shooting up several cases of the beer with a submachine gun.
The backlash to Mulvaney’s endorsement led to what media outlets have reported as more than $1billion in sales loss for Budweiser and inspired what researchers at Harvard Business School called one of the biggest brand boycotts in U.S. history.
Mulvaney has written and spoken publicly about her role as a lightning rod in recent culture wars, detailing her experiences of being stalked and otherwise harassed on a daily basis.
Her message: That all transgender Americans – not only high-profile social media influencers – face a steady stream of hatred and threats.
Mulvaney, as a beer lover, posted her endorsement during last year’s March Madness. But this led to the company taking a big hit with the boycotts, losing an estimated $1billion in sales loss
Mulvaney detailed in her book the harassment she’s experienced by being an advocate and a trans woman. But she clarified that this was something all transgender Americans – not only high-profile social media influencers like herself – faced
Her new memoir also describes her reckoning with female features of her body and tell-all details of her various hookups.
As The New York Times reported earlier this month, her willingness to share such intimate aspects of her life stands in contrast with her recent calls for the public to respect her boundaries.
‘I’m trying this new thing where I keep certain things to myself,’ Mulvaney writes at the end of her memoir.
‘Little yummy womanly moments just for me.’
Appearing in her jammies on her driveway Saturday may have derailed her privacy efforts. Let’s hope that whatever bagel she ended up with was yummy enough to have been worth it.
