Victoria's Secret Karen/Photo Courtesy of YouTube
While out shopping at Victoria’s Secret in a New Jersey mall, a black woman identified by TMZ as Ijeoma Ukenta recorded a video of a blonde white woman now dubbed as “Victoria’s Secret Karen,” charging at her and sending her phone sideways. The Black shopper claimed that she was attacked by the woman before the recorded video, which later went viral on Tik Tok and Twitter, TMZ reported.
The video was originally uploaded to Tik Tok under the username @iamlovekills but has since been taken down. Circulating on Twitter with over two million views, the video clearly shows the woman coming at Ukenta, who was standing inside of the Victoria’s Secret in Millburn, New Jersey’s Short Hills Mall.
But in a sheer display of white audacity, the woman began to “cry” and play the victim in front of the store’s employees and shoppers and then proceeded to have a complete meltdown.
“Oh my God. Do you see this?” Ukenta can be heard saying in the video. “I never thought nothing like this would happen to me. She just tried to hit me.”
The “Victoria’s Secret Karen” yelled back, “No, I didn’t!” while crouched to her knees with her face in her hands, apparently trying to invoke sympathy after she was literally caught on camera charging towards the woman. As things grew even more bizarre, a second video originally uploaded to Tik Tok shows the “Karen” screaming, shaking and rolling on the ground, upset that she was being recorded.
Instead of leaving or de-escalating the situation, the “Karen” began frantically chasing Uteka around the store while yelling, “Get away from me,” prompting the Black shopper to call on security for help.
In another strange turn of events, she was also the one who ended up contacting police, TMZ reported, and later told them that she was experiencing a panic attack brought on by Uketa recording her. After speaking with Uteka, Millburn police officers reportedly told her that they couldn’t remove the woman from the store but instead gave her the option to file a complaint.
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No word on if the “Victoria’s Secret Karen” will face criminal charges over the bold incident.
Ukenta has since organized a fundraiser on GoFundMe to help with lawyer fees, writing online, “I am a Black Muslimah Nigerian AM, and I was treated like it was 1920 in Short Hills Mall. I was assaulted and harassed by a white woman, and nothing was done by security nor the police. I’m looking to hire me an excellent attorney who can help me bring light to this wrong. All videos and updates on the situation are on my YouTube channel: Mama Africa Muslimah.”