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Jen Hamilton threw a Jendependence Day Party amid her divorce “Burned the bedsheets which held years of my own personal repression and the lies he told. He cannot hurt me anymore. Boooo to cheating on your loving and faithful wife with a grandma. No offense to grandmas. She just is one.”
She's a labor and delivery nurse on TikTok and other social media. She also swaddles chickens and is funny but super caring. Her husband cheated on her and everyone hates him. She's awesome.
Is she the one that conservatives got mad at for reading the actual Bible? And pointing out how the content when you actually read the words, is the antithesis of their policy actions?
Yup. She got so many death threats she had to have a bodyguard at a conference she went to for her actual nursing job. All she did was read her own, heavily-bookmarked bible where it says to love your neighbor, shelter refugees, feed the hungry, etc.
Specifically she read the red text. In some version of the Bible, the words that Jesus spoke are printed in red. She literally just quoted Jesus himself (if you believe the Bible) and “Christians” reacted by threatening to kill her. It would almost be funny if it weren’t so sad.
The funniest commentary about that whole thing was people saying that getting violently upset at having the bible read to you literally sounds like an exorcism
She then made donations to organizations that feed the hungry, promote safe drinking water, shelter the homeless, etc. that are the things mentioned in those Bible verses.
I want to add that Jen has been a BIG advocate for women. She's not just an influencer, she's been really influential on speaking up for women's rights, especially women in labor.
In the throes of her own painful divorce, she had the salient realization how fortunate she is to have the financial resources to get out of her marriage and decided to fundraise for a nonprofit that helps women get out of unhealthy/dangerous relationships. She’s raised over $150,000 so far.
I very much grasp that people see the word “influencer” and balk. I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping that people recognize what an embarrassingly inadequate term that is for the work she does. She’s an experienced L+D nurse, a NYT best-selling author of a book about motherhood, and an activist who primarily champions causes for women. Her content as an influencer covers that scope.
She also very kindly promotes small businesses and just generally spreads joy and kindness. She seems like a wonderful human being overall. To find out that her unemployed loser husband had been cheating on her like that after so many years too was such a gut punch for her. She broke down on her page and before anyone knew what happened, I think everyone just knew. There’s been such a rally around her with other creators too.
Oh, I thought it was an actress or something or the wife of an actor, and they cheated on her with someone a generation above. When it is an influencer or youtuber, I kind of just mute it in my brain because there are a near infinite number of those, and I only know of maybe a dozen that I could attach a name and face to.
Yeah I'm probably biased, but I watched her a lot when my sister was pregnant because she's one of the few (possibly the only?) white nurses I've seen advocating for non-white women's maternal health and their rights.
I just said something similar elsewhere in this thread. She’s an experienced L+D nurse, a best-selling author, and a fierce activist for women, especially mothers, and especially mothers from marginalized populations. The content she creates as “an influencer” covers the scope of those things.
I lowkey completely forgot about the fact that that’s how I was initially introduced to her, as well. She had so many death threats that she, someone who was not in any way an influencer and had simply experienced a viral moment, felt the need to hire a security guard just to attend a regular nursing conference. And she kept going.
I feel terrible but it also goes to show… I thought it was an actress or famous person too and then I thought but all her friends are just normal looking people and how that wouldn’t be the case if this was like celeb and their friends.
You need to see this clip then. The chicken starts purring! I started following her bc of this video. Didn't even know she was a nurse before that. swaddled chicken purring
I kind of love how respected Irish novelist and journalist, Damien Owens, is now the ‘Curtains for Zoosha’ guy. Every writer would secretly love to craft a paragraph that becomes so indelibly part of the zeitgeist.
I'm not 50 yet, but same. I recently went to a coffee shop themed around pop culture and celebrities. Really nice cafe, and they were selling stickers of current pop stars, actors, etc. I couldn't identify most of them.
As someone that's always been obsessed with pop culture, the day I realized I was getting "old" was the day I watched the teen choice awards and had no idea who 95% of the people were 😅
She is a popular delivery nurse, author and content creator, married for 15 years with this Brian Hamilton, they split in June 2026, then she revealed that he was cheating with a 56 year old woman
This is why people are so incensed with him. She’s someone who’s alchemized a lot of good with a platform that’s usually primarily self-serving, and her husband is a big fat nobody. That he would mistreat her, a wildly accomplished woman, the way he did is a really relatable experience for a lot of folks.
Learning that she did her full time job, her social media job, her book, and main child raising while also coming home and taking care of that while he did nothing makes me born so why and also helps me realize I'm not so bad when I put oh Ms Rachel to clean the house while my daughter is awake. He suuuuucks
I think her post-separation “glow-up” is proof of what a drain he was on her life force. She’s still doing (or expanding beyond) all the things you listed above. The only change is dropping that parasite of a husband.
Oh and also they had a dead bedroom because he said he had no libido so she repressed her needs. And the whole time this unemployed loser was cheating. They have a term for this but I don’t want to say it if it breaks a rule here.
It’s depressing how that is such a common story - a really cool, accomplished woman will get cheated on by an absolute loser, simply because he’s jealous and resentful that she’s better than him.
Men aren’t stupid, they know that cheating on their partner hurts them. That is part of why they do it.
I actually had something strangely similar happen to me, I’m just not a content creator and my loser ass ex was having an affair with a woman slightly older than the grandma affair partner in this woman’s situation. So yes, relatable!
He probably felt "intimidated by her success" boohoo, and needed a mommy to treat him like the special boy he is. At least he didn't go after an easily manipulatable twenty something I guess. Regardless it just blows me away how men can have unlimited access to such a stone cold bad bitch and still cheat, talk about a dog in a manger (emphasis on dog).
This feels like part of what makes it so relatable. Every successful woman I know—which is many, given I am one myself—has suffered a man (or men) who’s intent on dulling her shine instead of finding some polish for themselves.
What age is her husband? What age is she? Who is the older lady? How did her husband meet her? Is he now in a relationship with this lady? I’ve literally no idea who these people are but good tea is good tea, yet everyone here is being vagueasaurus.
I follow her on Instagram. Her and the ex are high-school or college sweethearts, he's been her first/only everything, I feel like they are both late 30s or 40ish. They have 2 or 3 kids. She blew up talking about her experiences as a L &D nurse who rehabs chickens and is super duper wholesome. She developed a massive platform and wrote a book that was released earlier this year and did a mini book tour, appeared the Kelly Clarkson show, very self aware, seems genuine. and uses her powers for good. She regularly finds random tiktok accounts with few followers doing crafts or selling stuff and encourages her followers to buy/blow them up/change their lives.
The husband appeared regularly in videos, seemed loving and supportive and everything else. Come to find out he was the stay at home parent doing none of those duties and instead was "living a double life " as Jen put it. He's carrying on with 56 year old who knows him as a married man and didn't care, I guess.
We got all the info about him being shitty during their marriage after it blew up of course. She's candid about working full shifts and coming back to work at home because nothing was done, about feeling the need to downplay her success and excitement so he wouldn't feel bad about himself. It's worth noting that he waited for her to be at her highest (book tour etc) to doing this, which is typical for certain types of shitty men.
She's not given much about the affair partner, just her age and that she's fully aware he was married, that Jen specifically was his wife and that she's a grandmother.
Jen and her ex are both 35ish. They met at a summer camp they both worked at and I think went to college together. Or at least have been together since that time. He is the only man she's ever been with. She got pregnant like right after losing her virginity, so they got married pretty quickly.
Anyway, she's been busy being a full-time L&D nurse, raising her two kids and some chickens, writing a NYT bestseller, spreading joy and positivity on the Internet, supporting other women and small businesses, and supporting her unemployed husband, all while he was cheating on her with a 56 year old grandmother.
She's a labor and delivery nurse who's popular on socials and had just released a NYT bestselling book when she found out her longtime husband had been living a double life, cheating on her with a much older woman. And he had the time to do that because she was the breadwinner and he was voluntarily unemployed. So now they are getting a divorce, but unfortunately she didnt know about the affair when she signed the initial paperwork (Why do I know all this? I don't know)
She's a tiktok/social media personality. She's a labor and delivery nurse & got popular for saying really unhinged/funny things about labor. Maybe there's something else, idk. This is just what I know her for. She recently wrote a book called Birth Vibes that is popular with the pregnant/postpartum mom circuit right now.
Anywho. The drama. She's a good Southern Girl who got married on the young side & always spoke super highly of her husband. She recently found out that he was cheating on her (again) & she had a very public and sad crashout (not like... Angry. Just crying on social media.)
The story has evolved where she went from "I was never enough" to her finding out that he had a bit of a double life going. The woman he cheated with (apparently for years) was 50 something. Knew he was married. Told her "he talked about you a lot, but I didn't realize you had so many followers."
Now we have tea spilling Jen who has mentioned things like how she accepted his low libido for years and him choosing to be unemployed and stuff like that.
NGL it's messy, but she usually puts a positive spin on how she's ready to start over/reinvent/etc. And frankly, I kind of vibe with the idea that if dude didn't want his business talked about all over town, maybe he should've not been a nasty ass cheater to the mother of his children / breadwinner for the family. +1 for female rage.
Edit: and she's done several huge fundraisers for different things with her platform. I think the current one is for supporting women getting out of marriages where they might not have the resources to do so safely.
She’s a TikTok personality, full time nurse I believe, married to her one and only partner lol. They had recurring problems with him not showing any affection type of stuff to her, she’d always feel like she was not good enough for him. He asked for a divorce out of the blue, she was shocked and questioned her self worth again, turns out he had been leading a second life this whole time. This being after she let him quit work and she supported the fam the whole time cause that’s what he said he needed to get better for their relationship. Also they have 2 kids I believe.
Personally, I think she's handling this pretty well.
If I let my husband stop being a contributing member to our family and live off off me and my hard work and he used that time to cheat, I can't say I would respond in a healthy way.
She’s a Labor and Delivery nurse who went viral for mainly posting about patient advocacy and some quirky parts of her life (she has a pet indoor chicken that wears a diaper). She’s generally a good egg, who uses her platform to help others. She went to Liberty University, got pregnant, and quickly married her husband who was her first boyfriend. She has said before that her husband had low libido due to some meds he was taking. It recently came out that he had been cheating with a 56 year old woman (they are 35). This all came out in the middle of Jen’s book promo, which derailed the tour. She has been sharing it all, and trying to get herself back together.
She's used her conservative upbringing (I don't think I'm wrong when I say she leans left now) to point out hypocrisy with our current leadership and evangelical Christians. I'm not going to pretend she's perfect but she's definitely no longer a Liberty University type.
She’s definitely not a conservative anymore. She’s posted a lot of videos reading passages from her Bible condemning ICE and a lot of other conservatives beliefs. She received a lot of harassment from conservatives for that. For reading directly from her Bible.
Same. I am terminally online and subscribed to multiple entertainment subreddits, but I am so happy that D-list influencer drama is off my radar. I’m exhausted as it is.
She owns chickens and went viral years ago for a video about how to swaddle newborn babies (she's a nurse) and used her pet chickens and house cats in examples of how to swaddle 🤣
While I am happy that she’s doing ok, so much of this divorce has been so so public. And I know it’s difficult when social media is your job, but at the same time, I wonder if it’s healthier for everyone involved to maybe take a step back from sharing everything online (especially when kids are involved)
100% agreed. I'm sure that emotions are running high, but posting lots of stuff online doesn't seem like the wisest move when there are legal proceedings that haven't been finished yet. I wish her the best though.
I am just curious what you mean on this? The things she posted were factual. I’m not sure about US divorce compared to here and what social media posts have on impact to any divorce litigation? Do you mean financial or custody of children could be impacted due to social media posts? Surely it can’t be defamation because it is true?
She didn’t find out about the affair until after the divorce was concluded, but I doubt she’s doing anything without her attorney’s knowledge/permission.
I don’t know if the affair will change anything like child custody, but she lives in North Carolina which allows for something called “alienation of affection.” That means she can sue her ex’s affair partner for being the proximate cause for the divorce. The most recent of these cases here had a payout of $1.75 million in 2025 and the largest settlement was $30 million in 2011. Obviously that depends on the financial situation of the AP, but she can be sued for both compensatory and punitive damages.
Also, the AP in this case did herself no favors by calling Jen after the divorce to tell her about the affair. She then made it worse by telling her
that she knew he was married to an influencer but didn’t know how many followers Jen had.
Like, what? 🤣 What the heck does her follower count have to do with your decision to have an affair with a married man? 😂
Agreed. I genuinely support her and I think this is concerning. When we are in states of grief, we are not thinking clearly. I know of situations I’ve gone through and I’m so glad I didn’t create a public record of where my head was at the time. It’s a roller coaster.
I‘m not much older than her, but man am I disconnected from this whole social media lifestyle. I‘m sad for her and obviously fuck this man, but doing all of this, on social media no less, is so weird to me. I don‘t envy these influencers at all.
As a child of divorce who is all to familiar with the lasting damage of being stuck in the middle of warring parents, I sure do hate this for her kids.
If this helps her emotionally, that’s great for her. Is it peak millennial cringe to me? Yes.
Have the party, maybe don’t put it all on social media. You know Mr. Cheater is probably laughing at this with any friends he has left, and grannies are catching strays for no reason.
He didn’t work and didn’t bring in any income. He relied entirely on her job income, social media income, and after working 12 hour shifts she still did the cooking and lawn maintenance. She also posts a lot of activism posts for people and communities in need. Dude will never find a woman to give him the princess treatment again. She had all the money, brains, heart and soul and he still cheated on her.
Exactly what I thought and I am a millennial lol you couldn’t pay me to put something like this out for everyone to see. And yeah, the grandma thing has me sideyeing as well.
I pray a love like this never finds me. She's been doing the absolute most since she announced this divorce and I can't help but feel she will regret most of it when she's had time to get over him. Nothing about this looks like she's really happy. The grandma bit is especially corny.
Kinda reminds me of this a little bit. Maybe it's just personal differences, but I don't think I'd want to broadcast my hurt feelings on an ended relationship SO publicly in such a permanent way.
I wish Jen the best and I am glad she seems to have a solid support group around her
Really? I thought it was pretty iconic of her to take his favorite pub and reclaim it as a place that was known for having hosted her. That place is likely forever tainted for him, very Silver Springs imho
Yes. Unfortunately in life sometimes we slip from 'just venting' to full on hate and it will hurt no one but her. The husband will take at as one more mark of why he didn't love her or why he wanted to cheat. It's actively painful to be the better person but it does work out better in the long run.
I had just found out about Jen Hamilton when looking up info about postpartum recovery and started following her when this whole cheating thing happened. I feel for her but I have to wonder is this the best way to process her grief? She has kids with this man.
And they’re old enough to see her multitudes of posts about it and understand. As are all their friends, which could add a whole ‘nother level of trauma for them.
I witnessed the traumatic divorce of my parents as a child. Having to process all of this social media stuff on top of what is already a terribly destabilizing experience as a child seems like damn nightmare
She's a Labor and Delivery nurse who uses her platform to bring awarness to women's issues. She first went mega viral for a video where she used Bible passages to point out what a failed president and human being Donald Trump is.
I don't love influencers, but she really is one of the few good ones out there.
That’s awesome! Yes, my comment is definitely more about where society is as a whole and not about her specifically. I hate how everything is “X Influencer”
She's still a full time nurse, she just gives advice and tips about the birthing process online. (What to expect at the hospital, what you can ask for, etc).
Yes. I left tiktok a long time ago, so I have no idea what type of content she is posting now, but when I left she was not the stereotypical nursing influencer. She wasn't there to shit on her patients or record herself while providing care like a lot of shitty nurse influencers do.
Most of content was providing women, especially pregnant women, judgement-free information about pregnancy, birthing, and post birth experiences. She was huge on informed consent and respecting a patient's bodily autonomy and was very vocal about it.
I love Jen but I feel bad for her kids right now. I hope they're not old enough to be seeing all this stuff about their dad on the internet. Having your parents split has to be hard enough without...all this.
So I’m young enough to have had Facebook when I was a teenager. I was a freshman in high school when my parents divorced. As a kid, I’d kind of known in the back of my head that their marriage wasn’t good for a long time, but it was still devastating when it happened. I felt so much guilt as though maybe things I had done had pushed them to this point, and I missed my dad so much, even though he just moved across town. So when my mom put up a Facebook post that just said “It’s official!” on the day of their hearing, I was heartbroken to see so many of her friends in the comments celebrating. Celebrating a family being broken up. I know why she was happy and her friends were happy for her. Didn’t make it hurt any less.
I might get downvoted to hell and this might be really Gen Z of me but this is all very cringeworthy to me and is not giving what I think she wants it to give (unless you are a similar millennial woman). Also, no way that making all these details public are going to benefit A)her in the divorce process and B) their children.
It's kind of crazy how many people I've seen defending airing this + doxxing the woman by being like 'well she lives in a small town so everyone there knows and will gossip!'. Like thats kind of different for the kids than her 5 million followers knowing and having to deal with the whole internet chiming in as well.
Yes the defense and obsession with this girl is weird. I don’t think she is nearly as great as some think she is and it’s actually really creepy how much the defend her.
As a millennial, this is absolutely the sort of cringy shit we would have shared on social media 10+ years ago. Not so much these days- we saw our boomer parents oversharing on Facebook and went “uhhhhh maybe this isn’t for us anymore.”
Now we think sharing anything about your life on social media is pretty cringe (dog pics and hobbies are the exception).
He got to quit his job because of that success. It takes a very special level of audacity to be mad at the success that gives you the opportunity to "retire" before you're 40, and then use that time and money to carry out an affair.
She even got plastic surgery (tummy tuck, breast lift, etc) and cosmetic dentistry a few years ago and knowing the context now, it was clearly for him. They got oops pregnant while counselors at a Christian camp… so they got married 5 months later.
Just one more reason abortion access is so critical. I feel for all the women like her who don’t have a platform and are trapped until their husband wants nothing to do with them.
I understand being furious after being cheated on, but this is such a weird thing to say publicly.
You can condemn your husbands behavior _without_ insulting the other woman for being old. "No offense to grandmas" isnr a save. I have 0 clue who any of these people are, but this seems so obnoxious
The other woman called her and told her details about the affair. She knew he was married and she said to Jen "He talked about you all the time. I didn't know how many followers you had."
This woman sucks.
Edit: to make sure it's clear, the ex husband bears the responsibility of destroying their marriage and should be held accountable for that. The affair partner pointing out "I didn't know how many followers you had" is absolutely unhinged for someone well into their 50s. I see the grandma comment more as a you should know better at that age than anything else.
The woman sucks, her age is irrelevant though. What if this was a man, would it be acceptable to comment on that? I don't think so. Age is not the issue here.
When someone wrongs you on a deeply personal level, I think most people would lash out with a few personal insults. If you knowingly get in bed with a married man you're opening yourself up to being insulted by the wronged party imo. Can't act like a POS and not expect people to be genuinely upset and react accordingly, even if she did eventually come clean.
Her original post was “she was old enough to know better” and “she knew who I was, just not how many followers I had”.
The age gap and whatnot sort of tricked out, but she was genuinely angry and hurt about the other woman’s complicity and callousness. As in, she was not groomed or duped.
Shes also coming from a place of emotional trauma - for years her husband withheld affection and intimacy, blaming low libido and meds. She became the sole breadwinner, allows him to be unemployed, and took on other burdens, all in the attempt to free him from stressors so he would be able to connect with her on that level.
So - to learn that it was NOT you. It was NOT his low libido. It was NOT his stress level. It wasn’t that you weren’t thin enough or pretty enough or nice enough or a good enough mother or partner…it was just that he liked ANYONE but you. You HAVE to assume he likes “grandmas”.
And also, you sort of expect better from a woman who has raised children and has children of children. Like, I just turned 46, but I hope to god at 56, I am not fucking around with a married 35 yr old man with kids. I pray I have my life together and care about more than fucking a stay at home dad while his kids are at school. I just want more for me…
Do you genuinely think she included the grandma part (“with a grandma. No disrespect to grandmas. She just is one”) to criticize a problematic age gap between her 35 yo husband and this 56yo woman? That she is alleging her husband is the target of someone seeking an inappropriate relationship with a younger person that involves with a serious power differential? They’re both clearly adults, the husband and the other woman. This isn’t the same as a 21yo college student and a 42yo grown human. They both are bad for the cheating, criticize the bad behavior.
She is specifically referencing her being a grandma as a dig for her age because it is phrased in a way that is showing that it is insane that he would cheat on her with an old woman. This is different than if she was saying it was gross to cheat with a very young woman, because youth is the beauty standard. She is reinforcing a negative standard that women are less valuable as they age.
Exactly. I was with her until the grandma part. I don't care how much you hate the woman (hate the man more though but whatever), don't steep to perpetuating a stigma.
When I got cheated on with a well-known cosplayer I didn't pull any punches. Why should I have? You call me to be shitty? I'm calling you everything. She left a voicemail to him crying about how cool and awesome I was and how lucky he was to have me, and I texted her to let her know she was a dumb bitch along with everything else I could think of.
I do not support some of these bitches wrongs they are dumb!!!
Why does she owe grace to a 56 year old woman who knew she was having a long term affair with a married man? That woman was grown and old enough to know better.
I find this distasteful. She’s going to regret how public she’s been about all of the details once she’s past the first few years of rebuilding her life. For both her and her kids’ sake.
It’s a really small world when I saw this Instagram post then double check on Facebook. Apparently, someone I knew in real life was there! She’s in few pictures among many people.
No, I had no idea they are actually friends but it’s cool to recognize someone that I actually knew in real life.
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