Pamela Reif: Influencer sick in bed at the turn of the year

Pamela Reif (28) couldn’t welcome the new year the way the fitness influencer had imagined. Just around the holidays at the end of December, the 28-year-old caught the flu from which she suffered for a week. Then it became pneumonia.

“It started with a week of flu, fever, not being able to eat, nausea, dizziness. Body aches, etc,” she reported to her 9.1 million followers on New Year’s Day. The whole thing ultimately culminated in a “pretty severe pneumonia,” Reif continued. She also lost her voice. “I can only whisper.” The only thing the otherwise active fitness influencer is currently training is breathing.

For her health update, she posted a few pictures and short clips that show Reif staying in bed or shaking out the sheets. Another picture apparently shows her diet, which ranged from a few slices of bread to rice pudding to muffins. She wrote that she only had an appetite for rice pudding at the moment.

Apparently she has now survived the worst. She is now doing much better than she was a week ago. She used the time to try out a new hobby, which she presented to her followers in several snapshots: The influencer is trying out structural painting. From the edge of her bed she painted butterflies and waves onto canvases.

Reif actually had completely different plans for the start of the new year: She wanted to start January with a cardio program. But that will have to wait for now. “At the moment I’m not starting anything.” She’ll have to wait and see “when my lungs will allow anything close to cardio.” But she doesn’t see the bumpy start to the new year as a bad omen: “2025 will be great, I can already feel that.”