There's a Dark Side to the Online Gossip Mill.I Would Know.

I'm the brains behind DeuxMoi.

- RACHEL SYLVESTER 

My friend and I were ready to dig into plates of spicy rigatoni at Carbone, New York City's storied celebrity-spotting hangout. We had just finished our first round of drinks when a table full of A-listers sat down next to us. I froze.

I'd traded secrets via DM with one of these stars just the other week, and I noted that a very famous person at their table was visibly pregnant but clearly didn't want the public to know. And now here we all were, inches away from each other. I bent my head low, praying they wouldn't look over. Did they know that I am DeuxMoi, one of the biggest celebrity gossip sources on the internet? Because if so, things were about to get really uncomfortable.

I could quite literally feel my adrenaline pumping through every vein as I thought about my worst-case scenario: I'd get doxxed right here in the middle of the trendiest restaurant in Manhattan, and word would spread everywhere online within seconds. My friend, one of the very few who knows my real identity, rolled her eyes.