Lee Tilghman

@leefromamerica

Wellness Creator, Blogger, Entrepreneur
My memoir, IF YOU DON’T LIKE THIS, I WILL DIE, is out now @simonandschuster
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Cannot wait for pequotlibrary this Thursday, 6PM, where I’ll be sitting down with lucybiggers to talk about my memoir. Bring your questions, your friends, your curiosity— it’s going to be one helluva homecoming. #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir 2025-09-03 02:33:24 Cannot wait for peq.. 27 -96% 1 -96%
Vermont is the California of New England. Change my mind!!! 2025-09-02 19:00:42 Vermont is the California.. 790 +3% 24 +7%
Growing up in Connecticut, these outlets MEANT something to me. It’s where I found my first silk tie belt, where I secured THE teal bubble necklace, and where i restocked my tissue tees and chino shorts.

And honestly, jcrewfactory still slaps and I’m glad it’s made it through all the changes over the years✨ 2025-09-01 04:02:08 Growing up in Con.. 845 +10% 7 -69%
Using my original recipe, I decided to recreate the smoothie that so many of us loved to see if it stood the test of time. Verdict: not very sweet, but still thiq AF. #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 
Original recipe:
1.5 cup frozen cauliflower
3/4 c. frozen blueberries
1/4 frozen avocado chunks
2 T almond butter
2 scoops protein powder
1/2 cup my unstrained homemade hemp milk
3/4 c. water
A good dusting of cinnamon
Blend in a vitamix and top with coco shreds, granola and more frozen bloobs 2025-08-27 22:13:10 Using my original recipe,.. 876 +14% 46 +105%
I woke up to news of the 2017 Las Vegas shootings from my Airbnb in Lower Merion, before a talk at Villanova and a brand trip.

There were already enough thoughts and prayers, so I posted a photo of my travel-friendly oatmeal bowl. 

I didn’t think much of it until, within minutes, someone commented:

“People are dead and you’re posting about oatmeal?”

Around this time, online outrage and political activism was only gaining momentum. Suddenly, there was an expectation that wellness influencers—or really, all influencers—not just care, but publicly perform that they were on the right side of history.

Followers expected this from us. We didn’t realize it then, but soon, we’d be expected to be well-versed in any and all crises within hours of them happening.

I deleted the oatmeal photo and spent hours researching gun laws and nonprofits. I posted a long caption about how I was feeling and what I’d learned.

Did it actually move the needle? I don’t know. But I was flooded with “thank you for speaking up” comments, so I felt validated.

People wanted to know where you stood, even if it was just for show. It didn’t matter whether it was genuine or not. They just wanted to see their influencers reflect their own beliefs back to them.

The pressures to be political, and so many more influencer experiences, are in my influencer memoir, If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die, out now with simonbooks 

#ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #memoir #leefromamerica #influencerculture #visibilityfatigue #socialmediafatigue 2025-08-27 03:36:14 .. 767 -0% 23 +2%
Cooking and preparing meals that honor the season’s bounty has been a thread running through my life. I grew up with food at the center—professional cooks in the family, like my aunt Didi Emmons (cookbook author and founder of Veggie Planet in Cambridge, MA), and home enthusiasts like my dad. A summer farming on a tiny island off the coast of Sag Harbor only deepened that connection.

Today, I see eating as a way to nourish, celebrate, and to feel good. Caring about food is part of how I live with presence, joy, and taking care of myself and others. #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 2025-08-25 23:33:46 Cooking and preparing.. 747 -3% 20 -11%
2 weeks ago, 50 of my closest friends and family (and a few followers) headed down to jacsonbondnyc after my book launch reading at strandbookstore. It was the absolute perfect way to celebrate, because everyone in the room had helped me some way, somehow, get to the place where I could put down the magnifying glass and pick up the mirror (wise words of kaciecarter). It was everything I ever wanted and more: caprese sliders, cheese plates, sheet cakes, and mocktails lovingly supported by thezeroproof (including the n/a espresso martini I’m holding by drinklapos). I was apparently so offline I forgot to take pictures but thankfully alikriegs brought her disposable camera. Thank you thezeroproof making it the perfect night and for everyone who has read If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die <3 2025-08-25 20:09:50 2 weeks ago, 50 of my.. 1,642 +114% 10 -56%
It wasn’t all bad #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #berkey #tapwater #influencermemoir #wellnesstips 2025-08-21 22:11:37 It wasn’t all bad #ifyo.. 535 -30% 10 -56%
Fluoride ≠ sheeple #wellnesstips #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir 2025-08-19 21:28:29 Fluoride ≠ sheeple #wel.. 587 -24% 38 +69%
Smooth talk for your hot girl walk: 5 hours, 39 minutes, 20k steps. 🎧 #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir #leefromamerica simonbooks 2025-08-19 18:43:36 Smooth talk for your h.. 183 -76% 6 -73%
RIP to the linen parachutehome sheets that soaked up 2 tbsp of oil a night #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir #wellnesstips 2025-08-19 03:34:25 RIP to the linen parachut.. 474 -38% 13 -42%
Reliving my past/30 hours in LA. It’s amazing how food can just bring you right back to the old days. Also, I love the differences btwn LA and NY eats. We could never have these LA eateries in NY without compromising quality. One of the things I love most about LA, the quality and care per plate is unmatched. It feels personalized. ❤️ #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 2025-08-17 22:41:37 Reliving my past/30.. 773 +1% 26 +16%
Day 11: Oil training, cacao powder, and priding myself on going as long as possible between shampoos. It worked for a while until it didn’t (like so many things in this life). After a year of this habit, I developed seborrheic dermatitis on the front edge of my scalp and, as it turns out, my hair DOES like to be washed, exfoliated, and cleansed more often than not. You live and you learn. #oiltraining #nopoo #wellnesshacks #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 2025-08-16 01:43:32 Day 11: Oil training, c.. 763 -1% 42 +87%
Aquarian cerulean magic 🪄🦋🫐 seacretvintage #kenzo 2025-08-15 19:46:59 Aquarian cerulea.. 481 -37% 21 -7%
Best treated armpits in east LA #armpitmask #detoxify #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #leefromamerica 2025-08-14 19:04:41 Best treated armpits in e.. 885 +15% 37 +65%
The cover of my memoir is quite literally a crumbling Instagram grid.

I wanted to evoke a feeling of everything looking perfect on the outside: a cute outfit (gifted, obviously), a confident smirk, the phone case evoking 2018 muted earthy colors, just the right amount of hip jut… but beneath the surface, a woman wobbling, collapsing, falling apart, while working so hard to make it all look perfect until she couldn’t keep up the act anymore.

The face I’m making in the mirror against the title says it all: I need you to like me so badly I might die without your approval. But you’d never guess it. Instagram was built for that; craving validation while pretending you couldn’t care less. It’s all part of the game.

I want anyone who picks up the book to feel that gap between what’s shown and what’s true. Maybe you’re not an influencer, but everyone will relate to the feelings of self-image, the pressure to be perfect online, and the drug of being adored. 

My memoir is available today wherever books are sold. 
#ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #leefromamerica #influencermemoir 2025-08-13 18:20:03 The cov.. 653 -15% 27 +20%
Launch day began like any other in our house: my fiancé bringing me coffee in bed, us chatting about last night’s dreams and the day ahead, before I took out the trash and headed into the city for an interview.

It’s surreal to release a piece of work that captures the darkest part of my life, and to share it with the world long after I thought I’d moved on.

I think about those days, alone in my apartment in LA, surrounded my serums, supplements, and gluten-free sourdough, and how lost I felt— how I spent my days chatting to my followers but no real human connection IRL, how I refreshed the Instagram app 100 times an hour, scanning for likes, desperate for the world to tell me that I was okay, that I was good, that I was worthy. Did you like my stuff? Do you like my recipes? Do you like my hair, my skin, my freckles, my legs, my teeth, my apartment, the way I talk? Do you like my clothes, the way I dress? Do you like me?

What’s different about my life today? I have a beautiful support system. I have a fiancé who quite simply, has been placed in my life by God. I don’t know where I’d be without him. I have friends and family who know me, love me, and who’d show up for me in an instant. But more than that, I’m not here for your approval, to make myself small, and certainly not to apologize for anything. I’m here to tell my story. 

And to answer the “but why are you on Instagram again?” Well, change is not made by hiding under a rock. We need each other to share our experiences and lessons, and this app is a pretty good way of doing that.

With everything I went through, I was set free, and if you want freedom, I believe you, too, can find it.

It just might require logging off for a bit.

Thank you for the preorders. Thank you for such a fabulous night at strandbookstore . Thank you, deeply, for the messages of those who have listened to it in full already (I’m impressed!) within hours of it dropping on audible and spotify. I’m crying. Yes. And I’ll see you Thursday 8/14 northfigbookshop LA with caroline_goldfarb xxxx💋lee 2025-08-13 03:59:51 .. 2,270 +196% 46 +105%
“Most people can only handle one side of a public figure. They can’t handle a whole person.

It’s always: ‘I am a wellness girl. I am a travel influencer. I do makeup in under five minutes. I do beach skin care. I do New England. I’m coastal granddaughter. I’m Rodeo Malibu Barbie influencer.’ But we all have multiple sides, multiple facets.”

My memoir If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die is out tomorrow.

Read more in today’s washingtonpost
📸 theprophetpizza jessedittmar 2025-08-11 21:31:20 “M.. 2,765 +260% 37 +65%
See you tomorrow 🎟️ ticket link in bio #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir  strandbookstore 2025-08-11 00:29:23 See you tomorrow 🎟️ .. 197 -74% 3 -87%
Hot bath to avoid a fever #wellness #holistic #detox #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 2025-08-09 22:28:29 Hot bath to avoid a fever.. 268 -65% 14 -38%
This needs to be researched #adaptogens #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #leefromamerica #healing 2025-08-09 02:05:24 This needs to be research.. 542 -29% 13 -42%
Marky mark approved #sleepcycle #healthy #morningroutine #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #leefromamerica 2025-08-07 22:44:51 Marky mark approved #slee.. 528 -31% 6 -73%
My book comes out in 5 days.

If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die is part memoir, part mirror. It’s not just about my obsessive quest to be the perfect healthy girl on Instagram, or the endless loop of feedback that pulled me deeper into the wellness rabbit hole (positive or negative—you decide). It’s about the lonely pursuit of healing, perfection, and the inherent unwellness of the algorithm itself.

My screen time was 10 hours a day. I barely saw a soul. I only talked to you.

But it paid the bills. And my views kept going up. So I kept going.

Until I couldn’t.

Preorder now, link in bio #leefromamerica #wellness #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie 2025-08-07 19:54:38 My book comes o.. 361 -53% 14 -38%
I missed so many great meals ✈️ #leefromamerica #ifyoudontlikethisiwilldie #influencermemoir #wellness 2025-08-07 02:48:58 I missed so many grea.. 689 -10% 32 +42%
PERIOD CUP 🩸 are you still using yours?? #leefromamerica #stemcells #plantfood 2025-08-06 20:27:37 PERIOD CUP 🩸 are you s.. 545 -29% 46 +105%

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