Isabella “Bella” Giannulli appears to be taking some time away from social media.
Over a month after news broke about her parents’ alleged involvement in the headline-makingcollege admissions scandal,Lori LoughlinandMossimo Giannulli‘s eldest daughter deactivatedher popular Instagram accounton Tuesday.
The 20-year-old’s mother hadalready done the same to both her Instagram and Twitter accounts back on March 12, the day the news broke. As of Wednesday morning,Bella still remains on Twitter, where she has 15.1K followers.
Bella’s sister, 19-year-old Olivia Jade Giannulli, has yet to deactivate her social media channels — includingher Instagram(which has 1.4 million followers),her Twitter(195,000 followers) or her YouTube page (the most successful, at nearly 2 million subscribers).
From left: Olivia Jade Giannulli, Lori Loughlin and Isabella Rose Giannulli.Gabriel Olsen/Getty
Loughlin, 54, and Giannulli, 55, were both arrested back in March on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Neither Bella nor Olivia Jade have been charged in connection with the scheme. It is not known whether they were even aware of it.
On Monday, the couplepleaded not guiltyto all charges. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison for each charge.
Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin.Donato Sardella/Getty Images for LACMA
In this week’s PEOPLE cover story, a legal source tells PEOPLE that while the threat of time behind bars is there, Loughlin and Giannulli are most afraid for their daughters.
The source adds, “Lori is very afraid that her daughters will have to testify. That will traumatize them even more.”
For Loughlin, what matters most is the opinion of her daughters. “Yes, she can think about the public perception of her, but that’s nothing compared to what her daughters think of her,” the legal source explains.
Previously, a source detailed to PEOPLE how Loughlin and Giannulli “always wanted the best” for their daughters and oftenput pressure on their kids to succeed at school despite the fact that the girls did not appear to have an interest in academics.
“Olivia and Isabella’s personalities were always very different from their parents. They are average students. They have never been obsessed with school and didn’t seem to care that much,” the source said. “They attended school because their parents made them. Their focus was never about getting straight As.”
“It was always clear that it was the parents that pushed them to go to school,” the source continued. “Olivia always talks about her vlog. This is her passion. She never really understood why she needs to go to school.”
source: people.com
