2025-12-30
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Hi, it's Helen here.
Today in Focus is taking a little Christmas break so that we can recharge our batteries ready for 2026.
While we're off, we're bringing you the latest series of Guardian Investigates.
It's presented by reporters Sharon Kahler and Lucy Osborne,
and it tells the story of how two influencers made millions radicalising pregnant women around the world.
Today, part two.
Hi, I'm Shireen Kalle, and I'm Lucy Osborne.
You're listening to the Birth Papers, a new six-part series from the Guardian Investigates.
Just before we start, this series contains references to baby loss and maternal harm.
Before Emily Saldeo was the leader of a self-proclaimed movement,
she was Emily Benner, aka Hoop Nasty.
There's a video on an old YouTube account posted by Emily in 2010.
It's got 500 views, a show reel from her time as a hula-hooper.
Emily is dancing on stage in an LA nightclub, gyrating in a hoop under red and blue strobe lights.
It feels very naughty.
She's wearing a trilby.
She's got the fingerless gloves.
She's actually pretty good.
It's hard to imagine this is the same woman who 15 years later would be hosting this festival on her land in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.