A nanny says the woman she replaced was fired over her boyfriend, then a girl snuck her in through a fence and she offered to take the child with her

A nanny says the three girls she was hired to care for kept asking for their previous babysitter, and one of them later let that woman back into the yard through a gap in a fence. TikTok creator @letsbemimi, who goes by Mimi, shared the story in a video that has drawn hundreds of thousands of views.

The Daily Dot reported that Mimi replaced a nanny of about eight years, whom she calls Katie as a pseudonym. The family said the previous nanny had grown overly comfortable in the job. The girls did not warm up to Mimi, and the middle child stayed in her room.

Mimi said the youngest girl revealed that Katie’s boyfriend used to come over and play makeup with the children. The parents learned about it through a photo that used a silly filter. Each child also had a ceramic allowance bowl, with $20 a day and a weekly match, and the girls told Mimi that Katie had taken that money.

Commenters fixated on the $20 a day

The allowance detail got the most attention. The top reply, which drew thousands of likes, simply wrote “$20 dollars A DAY” and set the tone for the thread. Another viewer joked that Katie was getting her seafood boil money, and a third asked whether Mimi told the parents about the missing cash.

The money detail changes how the story reads. A $20 daily allowance with a weekly match would add up quickly across three children, and the claim that Katie took it comes from the girls relaying it to Mimi. However, that makes it a secondhand account, and the video does not include anything from the parents or from Katie on that point.

Others made fun of how attached the children were. One commenter wrote that Katie “had a lil cult over there,” while another wrote that the girls were riding for Katie. A third went further and called it Stockholm syndrome, a joke rather than a claim anyone in the video made.

The report adds that Katie later returned to the house, and a daughter who had been hard to win over let her through a gap in the side fence. Katie offered to take the girl and bring her back, and Mimi said she wondered whether that amounted to kidnapping. The children eventually settled in with Mimi, according to the video.

Nanny stories like this draw crowds on TikTok, as when a nanny was called late at 8:01 AM and then quit, and Mimi’s account adds the odd twist of a former caregiver showing up at the fence to reach a child she once looked after.

Mimi’s telling raises a question about where the line sits between a nanny the children love and a nanny who has crossed one. However, that framing leaves out the parents’ view, as every claim about Katie comes from Mimi’s retelling, and the video offers no response from the parents or from Katie herself.

Viewers who enjoyed the storytime will likely watch for a follow-up, as the clip left the fence episode as its final twist and the family’s current arrangement unexplained, and the replies show many viewers already want more.

Attack of the Fanboy was unable to independently verify the previous nanny’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from Mimi’s TikTok video.