Deathfats are just perma-stunted adults. She should've gone through this sort of reckless phase as a teen (ideally you don't take a cocktail of drugs with some shady motherfucker), but she's old enough to have had a couple of kids by now. I want to feel bad, but I think she's enjoying this incredibly manufactured, juvenile "lifestyle" if you can even call it that.
Her kind are a dime a dozen on My 600 LB Life. They're kids who went to food instead of growing up, like a lot of addicts do.
I've thought about this quite a few times and you're right: Chantal is stunted both mentally and emotionally. It's a big reason she does act like a teenager with this, 'I don't give a fuck' type of attitude. Her craziness reminds me of this clip of Family Guy with the supposed quirky, crazy and fun drunk girl at a party:
That is how Chantal sees being cool, despite the fact she's pushing 40 now. She sees being cool that way because that's what a
teenager would think is cool. Just the sloppy, craziness of being dumb drunk.
So, getting on her livestream and being stoned out of her gourd, and having people eat that slop up, plays to that high school mentality.
The reason Chantal is still so emotionally attached to her teenage years (and into her early 20s)? Two reasons:
1. It was the last time she was probably a level of normal. We see this when she posts pictures of herself back then. I don't doubt a good amount of her older stories have some truths in them and that she actually did hang out with people and had some level of fun since, really, for a lot of high schoolers, just getting drunk and high was enjoyable. It's simple shit. But it was a time where she could fuck around and people didn't seem to care - even her mom probably had given up on her by that point. Smoking weed? That's cool for a 16 year old! Getting drunk? That's fuckin' lit, bro. Today? I mean, it's not a bad thing to get drunk or high but don't let it become your identity because a pushing 40 year old stoner is not cool unless you happen to be Willie Nelson or Tommy Chong and they're cool for other reasons.
2. But she has to look back at those years because her current life sucks - and it sucks because she has not emotionally, or mentally, grown since she was fresh out of high school. I mean, adulthood, like childhood, is still filled with basic milestone events. They're a bit different in adulthood, and certainly not so consistent across every group. Like, you don't have a choice about turning 16 or 18. Those are things that are going to happen (well beyond the unfortunate and you die). You can't really stop it without stopping life itself. But those are still milestones everyone recognizes right? Adult milestones exist and she just has not hit 'em. Typically, when you graduate high school (which she did I think), the next step in life is to either go off to college or get a job. For those who go to college, and get a degree, that is their next milestone and it likely will result in a semi-successful foundation for their future. But it also provides an opportunity to experience a level of life you just do not experience as a kid - responsibility, maybe living on your own, so, there is a significant amount of personal growth you can gain from going to college.
Of course, college isn't for everyone (even though Chantal tried college and utterly failed at it - twice, but this goes to the overall theme). So, the next step is to go out and start life with a job that maybe you can turn into a career. Sure, in your early 20s, you're still finding yourself and you might be searching for the job you want to do and still may be living off your parents' money because the job you do have only pays barely above minimum wage - but even that lays a foundation you can build
something off of. Chantal experienced the workforce early in her adulthood, having worked at a call center with Peetz and then moving into the ideal job for upward mobility, the hospital she was working at as an administrative assistant. This is where it all goes to shit for her, though. She HIT a milestone initially, that promotion she received working for the top doctor in what was likely a decently-paying job. But she face-planted and that was the last time she actually worked. Instead of taking that as a learning experience, and growing, she gave up and hasn't taken that next step into adulthood when, you know, you're actually expected to adult.
And that's where the other milestones start to come into play that define a person's 30s and beyond - they start building a career, maybe they marry and have children and buy a home and settle down. Maybe they don't marry and instead buy a nice loft and live a fulfilling single's life where they're out hanging out with their other adult friends and enjoying what their city has to offer. Regardless of what milestone you hit (and that's where it's different compared to being a kid, as all milestones there seem the same and unavoidable), each time you do, you grow a bit and shed a bit of what you were in your younger years.
At least that's how it should work. It obviously isn't working that way for Chantal.
The most damning thing is that, at this point in her life, she should be married and if she isn't married, she should at least have a career (and no, regardless of what she says, YT is not her career) and if she doesn't have a career, then what does she have? Well, really, all she has now are her memories of her younger years and a mentality built out of what life was like when she last felt semi-accomplished. Unfortunately for her (and fortunately for us, because it makes her the LOL Cow she is), that is a path of destruction and drug use, gluttony and sketchy men.
Hell, I'd wager at least her time with Bibi proved enough of a successful-ish milestone for her that it acted as a stopgap. She never emotionally grew out of that relationship, but it did provide enough where she wasn't out getting high every night, or drunk or doing fucking a meth from a man's apartment she met off tinder like the week before.
Even in her old videos, back when she lived with Bibi, she talked about how she didn't even like getting drunk anymore. Now look at her. The structure Bibi provided is gone and she's now fully reverted back into an adolescent.
