Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes posts kissy face selfie online ahead of secret documentary... despite being behind bars

Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes seemingly shared a photo on Sunday of herself giving a kissy face selfie – even though she remains behind bars.

The post featured a picture of Holmes, 42, in full makeup and blowing a kiss while wearing a snake ring and a glamorous black-and-white tank top.

'The answer to every challenge lies in your heart,' it read.

As of Monday night, the post had reached over 12 million views, with many online replying directly to Holmes's account and her apparently responding back.

The account told one X user her snake ring was 'from a Taylor Swift merch stand,' and when one person told her she hasn't 'changed at all,' the account replied: 'True. But I don't think that's the insult you meant it to be.'

When another account then asked her 'wya' – 'where you at?,' she apparently replied, 'Bryan Federal Prison Camp,' where Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In a follow-up post, the account noted that the kissy-face photo was actually from 2019, as Holmes does not have internet access at the federal prison.

Her account is instead being run by her fiancée Billy Evans, according to NPR. 

Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes seemingly shared a photo of herself on Sunday, wearing makeup and a black-and-white tank top as she blew a kiss

The 42-year-old remains behind bars at Bryan Federal Prison Camp, where she is serving 11 years for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars

It comes ahead of the release of a secret documentary in which Holmes opened up to Nathan Fielder just days before she was sent to prison.

She had been convicted in 2022 of four counts of fraud for raising hundreds of millions of dollars by misleading investors about the technology behind her healthcare startup.

The company claimed it could conduct hundreds of blood tests using a single drop of blood obtained through a finger prick, but a series of investigative articles published by The Wall Street Journal exposed the fraud.

Rumors then swirled for years that Fielder was interviewing Holmes, while the project was kept under wraps.

Cellphones were confiscated from attendees before the documentary was screened at the Herzog Theatre for the Telluride Film Festival.

With word finally out about the tightly guarded project, an unsettling trailer was released.

In it, Fielder and Holmes are seen facing each other for roughly a minute as they discuss whether she is being genuine while staring deeply into each other's eyes.

'I don't have anything to deceive you on,' Holmes tells the director.

'Of course I'm not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that.'

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The post comes ahead of the release of a documentary on the disgraced Theranos founder 

'OK. All right. OK, good chat,' Fielder replies. 'You're being real right now?'

'I'm always being real,' Holmes answers.

Her X account then reposted the trailer on X, adding that she is 'always being real.' 

In more recent years, Holmes has been making pro-Trump and pro-Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) posts on X in August of 2025, marking a striking shift from the political views and public persona she previously projected on the platform.

Before resuming activity on X, Holmes's account had been inactive since 2015. At the time, she frequently posted about prominent women including Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Melinda Gates and Margaret Thatcher.

But by November of 2025, her account shared a Politico article about MAHA 'embracing' her and wrote: 'I have been working to Make America Healthy Again since 2004. 

'I will continue to dedicate my life to improving healthcare in this beautiful country I call home. I don't know if MAHA is embracing me, but I support its cause: healthier Americans.'

In 2022, Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud for raising hundreds of millions of dollars by misleading investors about the technology behind her healthcare startup. She is pictured in prison

According to the US Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney, Holmes sought a commutation of her sentence sometime in 2025. On the justice department's website, her request is listed as pending. 

In criminal court, Holmes was convicted of wire fraud totaling more than $140 million and sentenced to a little more than 11 years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.

In civil court, she was charged with defrauding investors out of $700 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Holmes's posts and her request for a commutation could be viewed as an effort to secure an early release from the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, after she lost an appeal of her conviction in May.

Her only options for release before December 30, 2031, are now a favorable decision from the Supreme Court in a final appeal, which experts say is unlikely, or a successful clemency plea to the Trump administration. 

Holmes's strategy is not illogical, as Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of dozens of white-collar criminals who were convicted of fraud.

The Department of Justice's website lists 114 people who were granted clemency by the president since the start of his second term.

Of those who were pardoned or received commuted sentences, 34 were convicted of various kinds of fraud.