Reality TV has a way of stripping away the polish, and Brooks Nader isn’t shy about showing exactly what that looks like. The 29-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model posted a raw, unfiltered selfie on Instagram Tuesday, June 16, with tears streaming down her face and smudged eye makeup—a behind-the-scenes moment from season 2 of Love Thy Nader that promises things are about to get messy. Her caption?“Season 2 goes f#%king crazy.”
It’s the kind of teaser that actually lands, because Nader has spent the first season being genuinely candid about her struggles in ways most reality stars gloss over. On the Hulu series, which debuted in August 2025 and stars her alongside sisters Mary Holland, Grace Ann, and Sarah Jane, Brooks walked viewers through her complicated relationship with GLP-1 use—including an episode where her three sisters staged an intervention after she upped her dosage to look“extra snatched”for a Maxim Magazine cover shoot. The higher dose left her nauseous, nearly unconscious in a bathtub, and struggling to make it through a workout class without fainting.
That kind of vulnerability sparked something unexpected. In November 2025, Nader revealed that fans had reached out in droves saying they were dealing with the same thing—addicted to weight-loss drugs and ashamed to talk about it. Her response? Refreshingly honest:“I’m still on it. It’s a crutch for me, too. It’s not healthy. I should get off it; I’ll be honest about that.”She didn’t lean into shame or pretend to have it figured out. She just named the mess.
So when she’s posting crying selfies from season 2 production, you’re not looking at manufactured drama for clicks. This is the same person who sat in a confessional and said,“I think that I have maybe an unhealthy relationship with weight and food because of the industry that I’m in, but I don’t think that I have an eating disorder”—someone working through real stuff in real time. Love Thy Nader follows the four Louisiana sisters chasing their dreams in New York City, from modeling careers to wealth management, and the show’s power lies in how it refuses to pretend that dream-chasing comes without collateral damage.
Season 2 is expected to hit Hulu this winter, and if that crying selfie is any indication, the Nader sisters are bringing even more of themselves to the table. In an industry obsessed with curated perfection, that’s actually radical.
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