Influencer Jen Hamilton shared another emotional video after sparking speculation that her marriage to husband Brian is over.
“OK, no crying,” she began in a TikTok posted on Monday, June 15, which she captioned, “The ‘statement.’”
Hamilton continued in her video: “I’m feeling embarrassed and feeling exposed and feeling sad, feeling every single thing you probably possibly feel. My publicists say that I should make a statement ‘when I’m ready.’ There is no being ready. But there’s already been a bunch of articles about it, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off and put it out there in the wind.”
According to the Birth Vibes author, she didn’t want her statement to come from a publicist or ChatGPT. “I wanted it to be something that we came up with together. And I called him and that’s what we did,” she said. “So I’m going to show you what we wrote together and then I’m gonna add some things [of] my own.”
Hamilton then showed the statement on the screen behind her.
“Yes, we are separating,” it read. “This comes with enormous pain for the both of us but also gratitude for the 15 years of shared history, love, and friendship. What we are committed to is loving each other well through this transition and placing the wellbeing of the family we created at the center.”
The message continued, “We are hoping our paths diverging in physical location will make space and room for mental healing for the other. We still are committed to being a team. We even wrote this together (and without chatgpt). We both want to be very clear. This wasn’t about falling out of love. That’s why this is so devastating. It was about recognizing that sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give someone space to figure out complex things. And that’s exactly what we are doing.”
Hamilton went on to share more of her own perspective on the breakup — and the public attention she received after recently sharing a now-viral video of herself crying with a cryptic message.
“This next part is from me,” she said on Monday. “I am very embarrassed that I put a video of myself crying on the internet and I never should have done it. It was a moment of searing pain. And I just wanted somebody to tell me I was gonna be alright. There is no part of me that thinks that I am famous enough to end up in People magazine or the New York Post for something going on in my life. And that was dumb of me … because that is exactly what happened, and now in the midst of, like, the real-time pain that I feel, I’m having to deal with that part of it all.”
Hamilton assured her followers that she was “gonna be alright,” adding, “People live through this all the time. … I know that not a one of y’all owes me a damn thing. But if I could just have two requests: No. 1 would be to stop speculating, ’cause ain’t none of y’all got it right, OK?”
She emphasized that “only me and him know what happened” before asking one more thing of her fans.
“My next request is that you just be nice, OK?” she said. “He is my bestest friend still. There’s no meanness, there’s no yelling, there’s no animosity between the two of us. I want him to win. I want him to be the very, very best version of himself, one that he’s never even seen before. I feel like sometimes we can hold each other back from truly healing from the stuff we need to heal from.”
While Hamilton acknowledged that being a public figure “is the life that I’ve chosen,” she also pointed out that the same wasn’t true for the pair’s children. (She and Brian share sons Ellis and Luke.)
At the end of her video, Hamilton got emotional once again. “I love him more than I ever knew I could love somebody,” she said of her husband. “And the both of us being the best versions of ourselves only helps our family. … I can’t wait to meet the version of myself that figured out how to [heal]. She’s gonna be really cool.”
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