The dark side of being an Instagram model: How Tammy Hembrow's social media followers 'found her house on Google Maps because they knew the shape of her swimming pool'
While it may seem glamorous from the outside, being a world-famous Instagram model is not without its pitfalls.
Just ask Tammy Hembrow and her ex-fiancé Reece Hawkins.
Back in 2017, before the couple split, Reece revealed in a YouTube video that their followers managed to locate their home address using Google Maps.
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The dark side of being an Instagram model: How Tammy Hembrow's social media followers 'found her house on Google Maps because they knew the shape of her swimming pool'
Reece, who is the founder of streetwear brand District Goods, explained that fans tracked down where he and Tammy lived by piecing together clues from social media.
He said that internet sleuths determined the shape of their swimming pool from footage shared online, before searching Google Maps for their backyard.
In the video, which was posted on September 26, 2017, Reece offered his YouTube subscribers a tour of his new house - but admitted he was cautious about giving too much away.
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'I will show you guys just a couple of little bits of the new house,' he explained.
'I'm not going to show you the whole f**king house, just because people are crazy and they get on Google Maps and s**t, and they'll f**king find, like, the shape of the pool, and then be like, "That's the shape," and then they find the house.'
Mapping it out: Back in 2017, Tammy's then-fiancé Reece Hawkins (pictured) revealed in a YouTube video that their followers managed to locate their home address using Google Maps
Reece added that a friend of his once 'overheard someone talking about how they found Tammy's house'.
'They were like, "I went on Google Maps, found the shape of their pool from their photos, and knew that they lived in that suburb,"' he explained.
'They were like, "That's where they live," and they f**king found my house from Google Maps because they knew the shape of my pool. That's f**king crazy!'
Reece explained that while he appreciated having fans, some of them have a tendency to be a little 'crazy'.
Be careful what you post! Reece, who is the founder of streetwear brand District Goods, explained that fans tracked down where he and Tammy lived by piecing together clues from social media
'Some of you crazy fans are crazy. Love the support, but sometimes, [you] might take it a little bit too far,' he said.
In a September 2017 interview with Husskie, Tammy - who boasts over nine million Instagram followers - admitted she never expected she would become so famous.
'I never imagined that my following would be as big as it is now,' she said at the time.
The downside of fame: In a September 2017 interview with Husskie, Tammy - who boasts over nine million Instagram followers - admitted she never expected she would become so famous
