For many, keeping kids away from everything from soda to television to the internet can seem pretty extreme.
As far as Kim and Barry are concerned, these limitations are important.
However, not all of the couple’s children have chosen to stay aligned with their rules.
Moriah, who was homeschooled, still hoped she could give college the old college try.
“I might at some point just want a little bit of space for a little bit of time.
And I also need lots of freedom,” she said.
Turns out, it wasn’t always so easy.
Moriah told the audience that when she was a young kid, she had a rare form of alopecia.
“I would look at myself in the mirror and I would say, ‘You are ugly.
Nobody will ever love you.'”
Thankfully, Moriah’s hair did return, but the experience left a lasting impact on her.
According to Moriah’s brother Micah Plath, the answer is a firm yes.
Were you and your siblings really as sheltered from the outside world as all of us perceive?"
Moriah decided to leave once and for all after clashing with her parents, Barry and Kim Plath.
(Evidently, Micah left on less dramatic terms.)
“In the last six months so much has changed.
I moved out of the house slash got kicked out,” Moriah shared in the season premiere.
“I felt like an outsider in the real world.
I didn’t feel normal.”
It probably didn’t hey Barry or Kim, but something tells us Moriah didn’t care.
The rigid limitations and strict guidelines.
As we previously mentioned, this extended to being unable to express herself with things like clothes and makeup.
For a young woman, this is a pretty big deal.
Her first tattoo was the phrase “black heart” on her wrist.
The reality star has built up quite the tattoo collection since then.
This artistic mode of self-expression marked one of the biggest changes in Moriah’s aesthetic to date.
The “Welcome to Plathville” star was in a relationship with Max Kallschmidt.
She started sporting a bolder, glam look complete with her tattoos, of course.
Oh, and she totally changed her location.
(That same year,Barry and Kim Plath announced their own split.)
I’m not going to go into details.
Since then, I’ve been in a dark place."
In the episode, Moriah could be seen pouring her pain into her music.
In 2022, she released her debut single, “Missed Myself.”
But by the second day, it had become my comfort zone!"
“It was hard to love myself without being able to accept that I am loved!
I accepted Jesus as my savior and gave my life to him.”
What’s more, she’d put a great deal of energy into her music career.
In the image, she stands at the entrance of a circus tent in a flowing white dress.
