Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Pearadise

Just outside Las Vegas, Stefan Wilhelmy's "Pearadise" promises plus-size women body positivity and sisterhood. As photojournalist Emily Kask documents life inside, allegations of sexual assault and cult behavior emerge — sisterhood comes at a cost.

Stefan Wilhelmy's Pearadise fractures when TikTok assault allegations go viral. Is it a cult? Loyalties split between believers and survivors as a social media war over consent collides with sisterhood and the death of one member.

Kass Parades' death shatters the community, but Pearadise presses on — new women continue to arrive seeking safety as Stefan wages a legal battle. One woman's life hangs in the balance, as Pearadise members blame both Pearadise and society itself.