Fan Casting Lily Schmidt in Julie Chan is Dead

Lily Schmidt, a washed-up child-actress-turned-influencer. @lilyschmidt. Four million on Instagram, two million on YouTube, one million on TikTok. Two years ago, she made headlines after creating a series of videos about adopting a child with Down syndrome before returning him like a tampered bottle of Tylenol. She claimed, in a tearful video with melodramatic royalty-free music, that she wasn’t well equipped to take care of a kid on the spectrum and that he was better off in whatever country she originally shipped him from. A year later, she adopted a young, neurotypical girl called Wendy from Thailand. Now she makes mommy content. “Lately,” Lily says, fingering her dirty-blond hair,