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Pretty Unstable

By Klailea

Welcome to Pretty Unstable — the podcast for girls who are equal parts pretty and just a little unstable.

Hosted by Klailea, this is where internet culture, girlhood, femininity, relationships, confidence, beauty, awkward moments, oversharing, social spirals, and late-night thoughts all collide.

One episode might feel like a sleepover conversation, the next like a voice memo sent during a mild identity crisis. Either way, it’s honest, self-aware, dramatic, comforting, and way too relatable.

Because being a girl is weird, and somehow we’re all pretending it’s normal.

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  • S1 · E25
    Wednesday · 35 min

    Struggling To Find Myself In My 20s...

    Your 20s are supposed to be when you figure out who you are, but it’s hard when you’re scrolling past everyone’s new fits, trips, & perfectly timed outfit changes. It feels like a race nobody signed you up for. Klailea talks about fashion, comparison, & the constant pressure to keep up with whatever’s cool right now. She also gets into the time she tried to completely “transform” herself. She did a full glow up, bought everything, & spent well over $1,000. Klailea breaks down what she bought, what she thought it would fix, & what happened when it didn’t make even a slight dent.

  • S1 · E24
    Monday · 34 min

    The Struggles of Eldest Daughter Syndrome

    Being the eldest daughter is all fun and games until you realize you might actually have eldest daughter syndrome... and Klailea is finally ready to admit it. After spending years questioning whether the whole thing was even real, an unexpectedly emotional period of missing her family (and the confusing guilt that came with visiting them) had her reconsidering EVERYTHING. Is being the oldest daughter really as unfair and emotionally exhausting as everyone makes it seem? Or are eldest daughters just a little dramatic? This week on Pretty Unstable, Klailea is unpacking the complicated reality of being the oldest, the unspoken expectations, the sibling dynamics nobody wants to admit, and whether birth order really determines who we become. From the oldest child carrying the weight of responsibility to the middle child stereotypes and the youngest getting away with everything, NO sibling is safe. Consider this an official eldest daughter support group because Klailea is calling on every oldest daughter to share their stories, grievances, and emotional damage. It's time to find out if eldest daughter syndrome is actually real... or if we're all just collectively losing our minds.

  • S1 · E23
    October 21 · 42 min

    Reality TV Is Getting Messy: DWTS controversy, The Kardashians & Mormon Wives drama

    Reality TV is getting MESSY, and Klailea has a lot to say. From the Carrie Ann Inaba judging controversy on DWTS and the hate surrounding Connor Wood.. to possible favoritism, fan wars, and the reality shows everyone should be watching, she's diving into the drama, questionable decisions, and unpopular opinions that have everyone talking. But why are we all SO obsessed with watching other people's lives? Whether it's watching a complete train wreck unfold or secretly wishing we had someone's money, house, wardrobe, or entire lifestyle, reality TV has a way of making us compare our lives to people we don't even know. Klailea gets into the weird relationship between entertainment, jealousy, and aspiration, plus the shows she can't stop watching and why sometimes a little chaos makes the best television.

  • S1 · E22
    October 20 · 34 min

    Confessions Of A Severe Shopaholic.. Me!

    This week Klailea gets into money & how complicated everyone’s relationship with it is. Spenders, savers, & everyone in between, plus the buying habits, the saving habits, & the Sephora trips that were supposed to be quick. Klailea is fully addicted to spending, but it also really sucks that as an adult, literally everything costs money. She just wants to spend it on fun girly makeup & cute things, not a mortgage.

  • S1 · E21
    October 14 · 38 min

    What's So Bad About Being A TRADWIFE?!

    Klailea is saying it out loud: she’s pretty lazy. She walks through what her work actually looks like compared to a regular 9-5, & she admits she has it easier than most people. An office job is harder in a lot of ways. But her job has its own kind of hard, & it’s a lot more than filming a video & getting paid. She also gets into the tradwife conversation & why women should be able to do both. Staying home & cooking dinner, building a career, or a mix of the two are all fair game, & Klailea has zero patience for anyone who says otherwise.

  • S1 · E20
    October 12 · 43 min

    A PU DEBRIEF 004: Things You Didn't Know About Me...

    Klailea is catching you up on everything with a full reintroduction to Pretty Unstable. She starts with random facts about herself that most people have no idea about, then gets into where her life is at right now & what u can except being apart of Pretty Unstable! She also explains why she will never be on her family’s YouTube channel & why she is, without question, the pickiest eater there is. A few other dramatic stories come out along the way too.

  • S1 · E19
    October 5 · 38 min

    Most Girl Friendships Are Performative & We All Know It...

    Is every girl friendship secretly a performance? On this episode of Pretty Unstable, Klailea goes there: the compliments you're not sure are real, the friends who only show up when it benefits them, the group chat that flips on you overnight, & the unspoken rules every girl somehow just knows. Fake, semi-transactional, or just how girls operate? Klailea breaks down why girls act the way we do with each other, the loyal parts, the calculated parts, & the parts nobody admits to out loud. We're dramatic, observant, sweet, & scary all at once, & honestly, we deserve to be studied. Pretty, unstable, & fascinating, this one's for every girl who has ever overthought a friendship.

  • S1 · E17
    September 28 · 42 min

    Am I The Villain..!?!! (Debunking Your Villain Stories)

    Every celeb feud has a villain & the internet already picked one. The Kardashians, Whitney Leavitt, Taylor vs. Kim, Hailey vs. Selena. Klailea breaks down who got the blame in each one & then gets stuck on the part nobody wants to say: every one of us has been on one side of a story like that, we just didn't have a million people watching. Then it's your turn. You sent in your own stories & Klailea reads them cold. A best friendship that ended because both moms got involved. A mother-in-law situation that went from weird to unhinged really fast. Some of you did things that are genuinely hard to defend & some of you just picked the wrong group chat to be in.

  • S1 · E16
    September 23 · 38 min

    Defending The Hills We'd All Die On...

    Klailea is saying the hills she'd die on out loud.. andddd some of yours!! The parenting ones even though she isn't a parent... that people will side-eye, the friendship rules she refuses to bend on, & the "that's just my personality" defense that gets used to excuse way too much. Same goes for hiding behind your struggles, which she has opinions on too. Some of these are petty & some got uncomfortably specific the second she said them out loud. She isn't changing her mind on a single one, but she'd love to know which ones you'd fight her on. Welcome back to Pretty Unstable!!

  • S1 · E15
    September 16 · 39 min

    Addressing Your Assumptions About Me...

    In this episode, Klailea sits down to actually address the assumptions people make about her — the ones that show up in every comment section and DM. Getting married at 23, whether her family relationship is as perfect as it looks, what it's actually been like being online since she was a preteen — she's getting into all of it, no filter, no rehearsed answers. Married young means people assume things about how it happened, why it happened, and what it's cost her — most of it wrong. Family isn't as clean as it looks on a feed. And nearly a decade of being watched since she was a kid has left its mark in ways she's never actually said out loud until now. She's not tying any of it up neatly — just laying it out exactly as it is.

  • S1 · E14
    September 16 · 46 min

    Unstable UNPOPULAR OPINIONS That Could Get Us Cancelled

    We're spilling every pretty girl opinion that could get us cancelled, including dramatic ones like why the husband CANNOT hang with his best friend if the wife wronged the other wife...?!?!! idk... but stay tuned :))

  • S1 · E13
    August 26 · 45 min

    The Pretty + UNSTABLE SIDE Of Influencer Events You're Never Shown

    Klailea sits down to unpack what influencer events actually look like behind the polished photo dumps — the getting-ready panic, the forced small talk, the performance of looking like you belong in a room you're not sure you belong in. She's not here to give you a lesson on how to handle it better or a wrapped-up takeaway. She's just telling you the truth of what it actually felt like, the parts that never make it into the caption. This episode is Pretty Unstable at its core: the glamorous version everyone sees online, and the unstable reality underneath it that nobody talks about. Klailea gets specific about the moments that actually happened — not the highlight reel — and leaves it there, no resolution, no advice, just the truth said out loud.

  • S1 · E12
    August 12 · 49 min

    A Pretty UNSTABLE Life Growing Up As A Youtube Kid

    Klailea started working before she even knew what a job was.. she was an online star and she was loving it! In this episode, she talks through what it was actually like growing up as a YouTube kid - the fame that showed up before she could make sense of it, getting paid as a child, and addresses all the drama that has hit the internet on YouTube kids. It's nostalgic, a little messy, and more honest than anything she's said about this before.. because she's grown up, she sees it as it really is. If you've ever wondered what it's actually like on the other side of a childhood spent online, this is that - no filter, just the truth as she lived it.

  • S1 · E11
    August 10 · 1 hr 6 min

    The Pretty Girls Are Getting Married

    Getting engaged is supposed to be the easy part — before the planning, before the stress, just her and a ring and pure happiness. Nobody tells you it comes with its own chaos: the fights about whose family gets told first, the expectations that materialize out of nowhere the second you say yes, and the arguments with your mom that somehow every single one of us goes through no matter how close you are. This week Klailea gets into what her engagement period actually looked like — the drama, the pressure to keep both sides of the family happy, and the parts nobody warns you about. Then she gets into the wedding itself — the nerves that hit different than you'd expect, the bridal party drama that somehow finds its way into even the most low-key friend groups, and the never-ending question of who actually makes the guest list without starting a war. If you're engaged, getting there, or just love a messy behind-the-scenes story, this one's for you.

  • S1 · E10
    August 2 · 38 min

    Pretty UNSTABLE Date & Engagement Horror Stories

    This week's episode is a PU Debrief — no topic, no plan, just Klailea reacting in real time to fan-submitted dating horror stories and the engagement stories that made her gasp out loud. Uncut means uncut: the "wait what," the "no he did NOT," the long pauses where she's genuinely processing what she just read. If you sent something in, there's a good chance it's in here. She's not pretending to have this all figured out or wrapping it up with some neat takeaway — some of these stories don't have a lesson, they're just insane and she needed to talk about them out loud. Grab your comfort item of choice, this one's messy in the best way.

  • S1 · E9
    July 30 · 1 hr 18 min

    Pretty Girls Have Dating Horror Stories Too

    This week I'm getting into my full dating history — every era, every red flag I ignored, every lesson I definitely didn't learn the first time. We're going back to high school, when I was serial-monogamous in the most chaotic way possible, jumping from boyfriend to boyfriend like my life depended on it. I'm telling the actual horror stories — the cringe, the drama, the moments I'd rather forget but definitely haven't. It's not a cute glow-up story with a bow on it. I'm not going to pretend I figured it all out and now I give great advice — I'm just telling you exactly how unhinged it actually was, situation by situation, so you can laugh, cringe, and maybe recognize a little bit of yourself in it too.

  • S1 · E8
    July 22 · 46 min

    A PU DEBRIEF 002: Unstable Girls, Real Talk & Behind the Scenes of Social Media Drama

    Klailea is back, she is NOT okay, and she's bringing all of it to the mic this week. We're talking subtweets, mysterious unfollows, and group chats that spiral into full-blown chaos over one misunderstood Instagram clip.. It's giving unhinged, it's giving messy, and it's really showing some true colors. Then things get real. Klailea rips the filter off social media and gets into what's actually happening behind the highlight reels — the delulu, the toxic undercurrents, the exhausting need to look like you have it together for people you've never even met. Raw, relatable, and possibly the wake-up call your feed needs. Press play and prepare to spiral with her. Klailea is back, she is NOT okay, and she's bringing all of it to the mic this week. We're talking subtweets, mysterious unfollows, and group chats that spiral into full-blown chaos over one (1) Instagram story. It's giving unhinged, it's giving messy, and it's giving zero apologies. Then things get real. Klailea rips the filter off social media and gets into what's actually happening behind the highlight reels — the delulu, the toxic undercurrents, the exhausting need to look like you have it together for people you've never even met. Raw, relatable, and possibly the wake-up call your feed needs. Press play and prepare to spiral with her.

  • S1 · E7
    July 15 · 58 min

    Unstable Girls & Their UNSTABLE Ex-Best Friends

    She wanted a million friends. She has zero. This week on Pretty Unstable, Klailea is finally answering the question everyone in her comments keeps asking: is it the friends, or is it HER? Buckle up, because she's dragging us through every single friendship era — high school drama that was NOT actually that deep, college "friends" who were only there for the free rides and the boys, and adult friendships that get messier the older she gets. Yes, “Spencer” (given nickname;) is back. Yes, it's still awkward. Yes, she's spilling things she probably shouldn't. And just when you think it can't get messier — it does. Klailea reads FOUR unhinged listener submissions about friendship breakups gone wrong: jealous third wheels losing it in a library, best friends getting replaced as bridesmaids after a group text, situationships that lasted literal YEARS with zero payoff, and a friend group implosion over... ice cream. It's chaotic, it's a little cringe, it's deeply relatable, and by the end you'll be questioning every friendship you've ever had. Don't miss it — and stick around for next week, because the "Spencer" story isn't over and neither is the tea on Klailea's college social life.

  • S1 · E6
    July 12 · 1 hr 2 min

    A PU DEBRIEF 001: A Pretty Girls Oversharing Ranting Sesh

    We're back and Klailea's got a lot to say. This episode is exactly what it sounds like — an unfiltered, no-agenda catch up where we get into all of it. She's spilling about birthdays as adults, growing up, the feelings nobody really talks about when life starts looking different than you expected. Klailea's not holding back. From the realities of being married and what visiting family actually looks like behind closed doors, to holiday chaos and the kind of drama that only makes sense in retrospect — this one covers everything we've been sitting on. Grab something cozy, because pretty girls are oversharing today.

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