From left to right: Chantel Houston, Freddie Ransome, Devin Lytle, Kristin Chirico and Jen Ruggirello
A popular web video series from BuzzFeed, Ladylike consisted of five women named Frederica “Freddie” Ransome, Devin Lytle, Jennifer "Jen" Ruggirello, Chantel Houston and Kristin Chirico.Past members of Ladylike include Safiya Nygaard
and Candace Lowry, former Buzzfeed-employees who now have their own YouTube-channels.
Ladylike was similar to The Try Guys (also a popular web video series that originally started at Buzzfeed) in that the group of women usually tried something new in every episode, but the activities of Ladylike focus more on things like fashion, beauty, body positivity and other traditionally "feminine" endeavors. After getting their own YouTube-channel, Ladylike started focusing more on stuff like female-empowerment.
As of current, the show seemed to have merged into the “As/Is” channel. Of the original cast, Freddie's the only one who's still working at Buzzfeed. However, the story of Ladylike between the members leaving and the show merging remained a mystery. According to Kristin in her and Jen’s Why They Left Buzzfeed video, it’s better left for all of them to reveal.
Lady Tested, Lady Approved Tropes:
- All Love Is Unrequited: Combined with Incompatible Orientation—in a video where they talk about how they first met, Jen (who's a lesbian) admits that she had a crush on Devin (who's heterosexual) at one point.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Kristin's definitely this.
- Big Fun: Kristin's often at the ready with a punchy one-liner.
- Birthday Episode: The group has done various videos where they celebrate each other's birthdays —
- Jen's birthday was the first to be celebrated.
- Freddie's birthday was the second to be celebrated.
- Kristin's birthday was the third to be celebrated.
- Chantel's birthday was the fourth to be celebrated.
- Devin's birthday was the fifth to be celebrated.
- The ladies also celebrated the birthday of Mike, their lead cameraman who's frequently seen in their videos (especially the later videos).
- Catchphrase: Of the Signing-Off Catchphrase variety—pretty much every video for the Ladylike-series has some variation of "Lady tested, Lady approved."
- D-Cup Distress: While she may not have the largest breasts in the group (that goes to Kristin), Chantel's fairly busty for a woman of her body type—Chantel has also shared some of the awkward moments she's had with having a well-endowed chest (both in the present time and in the past when she was growing up).
- The Fashionista: All five have their unique styles that they enjoy playing around with.
- Gasshole: Devin makes it no secret that she loves to fart a lot.
- Gender-Blender Name: Devin and Freddie both have these—though the latter's case is a nickname-variety rather than being her actual first name (her real name is "Frederica"). In the case of the former, while "Devin" is increasingly popular as a girl's name, it's still more common as a boy's name.
- Hidden Depths: Various episodes have the ladies sharing some of their secret skills, such as:
- Devin's a pole dancer and an instructor.
- Jen was a fencer for many years.
- Chantel participated in many athletic activities as a kid, such as cheerleading.
- Freddie was a cheerleader when she was younger.
- Kristin was a swimmer.
- Huge Schoolgirl: Devin's currently the tallest member of Ladylike at (roughly) 5'10" and she's mentioned in some videos how, as a kid, she was really tall for her age and was often one of the tallest kids at her school.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: All the members of Ladylike are very nice, but neither Kristin nor Jen have pet cats, unlike Devin, Freddie and Chantel—Jen (who is self-admittedly more of a dog person) is actually allergic cats (although she does like cats) while Kristin just doesn't seem to be much of a cat-person.
- Freddie has a female cat named Roberta (who she sometimes calls "Bertie").
- Chantel has a male cat named James.
- Devin actually has two cats (both boys), named Mars (who has his own Instagram-account) and Bones. There was a Ladylike-video where Devin went out of town for some trip and Jen was tasked with babysitting Mars and Bones (despite her cat allergy).
- LGBTQ+ Best Friend: Three of the five "official" members of Ladylike aren't heterosexual —
- Jen, as previously mentioned, is a lesbian (and she apparently came out of the closet after high school).
- Chantel identifies as "not heterosexual," so it's unknown what her exact sexuality is.
- Kristin (who's married to a trans woman) is bisexual/queer as confirmed in a December 2018 Ladylike Q&A video.
- Limited Wardrobe: Chantel states in the video she and Freddie swap styles that her wardrobe is black, white, gray, and denim, and she will buy the same shirt just in one of the different colors. There was also a video where the members of Ladylike wore the same outfits for a week.
- Sixth Ranger: The team are oftentimes joined by one time members, such as Kate and Nyla in the pole dancing episode.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Jen's the biggest tomboy of the group while Freddie, Chantel, Devin and Kristin are considerably more feminine by comparison.
- True Companions: Much like the Try Guys (who didn't really know each other before forming their group), the members of Ladylike also didn't really know each other that well before making the video series—however, in various videos explaining how they met and got their jobs at Buzzfeed, the girls have noted that they've ultimately become very close friends through making the videos.
