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WHY THE GROUP “HOT GIRL WALKS” POPPING UP AROUND TEXAS ARE KIND OF BEAUTIFUL

Texas women often feel targeted and unsafe. With “hot girl walks,” they're
(again) finding safety and well-being in one another.

By Amanda O'Donnell
September 22, 2022 1

A hot girl walk on the Katy Trail, in Dallas, on August 17, 2022. Courtesy of
Kylie Harris

Kylie Harris didn’t actually think anyone would show up.

The Austin native and Texas A&M grad had recently settled in Dallas and, after
finding herself lonely and struggling to make friends, she posted a TikTok to
her one thousand or so followers suggesting a casual walking club. “I saw there
was a running club in Dallas, and I loved that, but I’m just not a runner. I
wanted to go to socialize, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up,” Harris
said. “So, I thought maybe there’s some interest in a walking club.”

Some of the key words Harris leaves out in that summation are “hot” and “girl.”
Harris was looking to start specifically a hot girl walking club. Either that
rings a bell for you, or TikTok’s algorithm hasn’t found you. The term “hot girl
walk” was first popularized on the video sharing app in early 2021 by user
@exactlyliketheothergirls, whose profile says the 23-year-old is the “Creator of
the Hot Girl Walk™.” Her initial video has been viewed more than three million
times. In it, she spends a second touting the well-known and established health
benefits of taking long and regular walks, but quickly diverts to explaining
what makes a hot girl walk special and different than a regular walk.

“It’s what you do on the hot girl walk that matters,” she says. According to the
Creator™, you’re only allowed to think about three things on your walk: what
you’re grateful for, your goals and how you’re going to achieve them, and, most
important, how hot you are. Also extremely important is what you don’t spend
time thinking about during your walk: romantic drama. That’s when
@exactlyliketheothergirls encourages you to turn up your music and walk on. The
video ends by noting that “the most important part of the hot girl walk” is that
the themes don’t end when you finish walking but instead are carried through to
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In the past year, group hot girl walks have popped up across Texas, and now
those looking can find a group of women to walk with in Austin, Dallas, Houston,
and San Antonio.

When Harris planned her first group hot girl walk in July, she wasn’t feeling
very hot at all. “I’d never really felt this sense of loneliness before,” she
said. “I didn’t have anyone to go to dinner with. I didn’t have any friends in
my workout classes. I’m a really social person, so I wasn’t used to it just
being me alone, by myself all the time. I called my mom crying one day and told
her, ‘This is the loneliest I’ve ever been—maybe I made a mistake.’”

When she showed up at Dallas’s Katy Trail, she was shocked to see a group of
about forty women mingling. Outfitted in an array of spandex separates and
tennis shoes, with oversized statement water bottles in tow—the hot girls had
come through.

After they did what they had set out to do (a gentle two-mile loop that landed
them at the doors of Katy Trail’s popular patio restaurant and bar, Katy Trail
Ice House), the group socialized, drank margaritas, and went home feeling,
maybe, a little more connected than before. Harris took to TikTok to share a
recap video and set a date for the next walk. That time, a group of around two
hundred women showed up ready to walk the trail. “People were stopping us like,
‘What is this? What’s going on?’” Harris said. “Some people knew, ‘Oh, that’s a
hot girl walk!’ But others pulled out their phones and took a video. I just
laughed. I get it. It’s a lot . . . a literal mob of girls coming at you. I can
imagine what that looks like.”

https://www.tiktok.com/@kylieharris/video/7125555174998871339?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=en

The group, which has leveled off at about a hundred and just completed its ninth
walk, is mostly women in their twenties but, as Harris stresses repeatedly, it’s
open to all ages: “People bring their dogs. We’ve had a few people bring their
baby in a stroller. It’s truly open to everybody.” Erin Kee, a fitness blogger
who helped launch a monthly hot girl walk in Austin, reiterated the sentiment,
saying, “We welcome any and all gals, and want this to feel inclusive to all.”

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