Sounds like no, she wasn’t.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/07/05/hawk-tuan-girl-hailey-welch-interview/74311380007/

Haliey Welch used to wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to go to work at a spring factory in Belfast, Tennessee.

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Now, Welch is sleeping in.

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She may be small town, but she’s savvy. Welch is taking what started as embarrassment and is turning it into a career. She’s assembled a team consisting of an attorney, a management company and a PR firm. That team is entertaining appearances with price tags north of $25,000 each, according to her manager, Jonnie Forster, owner of Los Angeles-based management firm The Penthouse.

“Right now, she can make more money holding up a can for five minutes than she made all last year,” Forster said.

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Once she saw the merchandise being made and sold online by other people, she thought, “If everyone else is making money off of it, I might as well, too.”

She quit her job at the spring factory on June 27.