Influencers Jen Hamilton opens up about the pain of her ongoing divorce from separated man Brian Hamilton and why the experience reminds her of childbirth.
“It feels like labor,” Jen said of her split in a video titled “Separation Vlog,” which was shared via TikTok on Saturday, June 20. “You’ll be okay for a moment and here comes a contraction! And another thing about this and labor is that I don’t know when it’s going to end.”
Hamilton, who confirmed her and Brian’s marriage was over on Tuesday, June 16, then showed off her chickens while filming in her coop — a way, she said, to feel a sense of normalcy in the midst of her divorce.
“People say, ‘Jen, it’s OK to take a break.’ This is the only thing that feels like routine to me right now — just telling you what random thought pops into my head,” she said. “Which sometimes gets me into trouble, I know.”
Influencer Jen Hamilton has claimed that viral social media comments apparently posted under her name were fake. “Someone is making fake screenshots of me saying horrible things,” Hamilton, 35, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, June 16. “I have never and would never say anything like that. Please report any posts you see about this.” A (…)
She continued: “But I also want to be able to document where I was and where I’m going and where I am. What’s bothering me right now — that I know it shouldn’t be bothering me, but I wish I had something stable to count on — is the lability of my emotions right now. Because I can wake up and feel okay and, like, do something and feel like a man, and then I want to be a man. I’m just a puddle on the floor.”
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The Birth vibes the author sparked immediate speculation her the marriage was ending after she shared a viral video of herself crying. Later, when she confirmed her and Brian’s split, the social media star gave her fans a statement, admitting she was embarrassed that she shared a video of herself in tears.
“I feel embarrassed and I feel exposed and I feel sad, I feel every single thing that you probably feel,” she said at the time. “My publicists say I’ll speak out ‘when I’m ready’. There’s no clarity. But there’s already been a lot of articles about it, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off and put it out there in the wind.”
She later continued in the announcement video: “I’m very embarrassed that I put a video of myself crying on the Internet, and I never should have done that. It was a moment of searing pain. And I just wanted someone to tell me that I was going to be okay. There’s no part of me that thinks I’m famous enough to end up in People magazine or the New York Post because that’s exactly what happened in my life… and now in the midst of, like, the real-time pain that I’m feeling, I have to deal with that part of it all.”
On Saturday, Jen thanks the people who have been in her corner as she continues to navigate her divorce, revealing that she’s also been in touch with her estranged husband.
“My sweet mom brought pancakes and is folding my laundry right now, which is very, very sweet,” she said. “I have such good people around me. I talked to (Brian) this morning and he’s healing and doing well.”
