Kenyans have expressed mixed reactions after celebrity fitness trainer, Frankie Kiarie, popularly known as Frankie ‘Just Gym It’ stated that he has never been broke in his life.
He noted this during an interview on a podcast known as Financially Incorrect further explaining that he was not boasting with his remarks but only speaking the truth.
“I have never really struggled with finances. I come from a well-off family, and I have never been broke in my life. I don’t know how that feels,” Frankie noted, in between laughs.
Nonetheless, these remarks led to a commotion on the internet, with netizens flooding the video with comments.
“You don’t know how being broke feels, wueeh,”one Instagram user Aker Lenox noted.
“We don’t really care,” one user Bruno noted.
However, there were some who mocked the fitness influencer, claiming that he was bragging leading to a flurry of negative comments.
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“But that’s a flex, when you say you depend on your family’s wealth to sustain your lifestyle, it is creating a wrong impression that you are a good entrepreneur,” a user Odindo Buxton noted.
A section of Netizens Defend Celebrity Trainer, Frankie
Nevertheless, some social media users were quick to defend the fitness guru, noting that they also hoped that their children would also make such comments.
“Why do people think he is bragging? Because he isn’t. It is not his fault that he comes from a well-off family, and he talks about it,” Ed Njaramba reacted.
“Poverty mentality will make you hate someone for being born into wealth. For years, rich kids have been made to feel guilty for their upbringing,” another user, The Grace Cup noted, defending Frankie Kiarie.
Who is Frankie Just Gym It
Frankie Just Gym It is a popular celebrity fitness guru, and the owner and managing director of Just Gym It a fitness and nutrition consultancy based in Nairobi.
Also, Frankie creates and shares lifestyle content that includes workouts and fitness regimes on his Instagram account that boasts of over 250,000 followers.
Besides his work, the fitness trainer has also been in the limelight recently for issues affecting his personal and family life.
Furthermore, the fitness trainer has been on the limelight severally due to the drama and messy breakups surrounding his relationship life.
He has dated popular influencers and lawyers including Maureen Waititu and Corazon Kwamboka.
For instance, the lates breakup was between Frankie and lawyer and influencer, Corazon Kwamboka in March 2022.
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In a series of Instagram stories Corazon Kwamboka lamented the emotional torment and disrespect she had been silently enduring following the breakup.
The mother of two also revealed that she was diagnosed with clinical depression and that when she asked Frankie for help, he recommended that she leaves their children under his care while she seeks help.
Further, his other ex and mother of his kids, Maureen Waititu also noted that she had suffered mental health challenges after breaking up with the fitness guru, further admitting that she was suicidal at some point.
These two incidents have made Frankie Kiarie a man to be hated and loved at equal measure, with people criticizing his approach towards romantic relationships.