What Happened Between Jen Hamilton & Her Husband? A Deep Dive Into Their Split
What To Know
- Influencer and nurse Jen Hamilton publicly revealed her split from husband Brian Hamilton.
- She alleges he led a “double life” during their 15-year marriage.
- The couple previously announced their separation in a joint statement emphasizing mutual respect.
Over a month after confirming her separation from her husband, Jen Hamilton is dealing with it “by not having any secrets.” In a series of TikTok videos, the influencer claimed that her ex, Brian Hamilton, was leading a “double life.”
“I’m done being people’s PR manager,” she said in a July 27 TikTok video. “I’m just going to give you the nitty gritty details so it can give you enough information to be like, ‘Okay I get it.'”
She went on to explain why the loss of the relationship feels like a “death” and what happened between them. Keep scrolling for Jen’s full relationship history and the reason for her divorce.
Who is Jen Hamilton?
First, if the drama on TikTok is the first you’re hearing of her, you may be wondering who Jen Hamilton is exactly. She’s a 35-year-old nurse and content creator from North Carolina. She works as a labor and delivery nurse. Jen has nearly five million followers on TikTok and often shares insights on the current state of healthcare. She also authored The New York Times bestselling book Birth Vibes.
Who is Brian Hamilton?
Brian kept a much lower profile than his then-wife during their relationship, though he would at times appear on her social media. In her video about their split, Jen said she’d been the only one working for a long time because she “wanted to take stress off of him.”
“While I was at the hospital, taking care of people, he found the time to have a whole other life,” she said. “As someone who’s never even passionately kissed anyone else in my entire life, this has broken me beyond comprehension ’cause it’s sacred to me. He didn’t ever really have much interest in me in that way, so I repress my own natural human desires down to nothing so that I wouldn’t make him feel bad.”
They married in August 2012. In a March 2025 Instagram post, Jen shared her and Brian’s wedding photos and wrote in the caption, “It hasn’t always been awesome or fun, and there was even a time we didn’t think we were going to make it. But I’m grateful for mending our family and sticking it out.”
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Why did Jen and Brian Hamilton get divorced?
So, what happened between Jen and Brian that led to this explosive split? As you might’ve already suspected from the “double life” comment, Jen alleged that Brian had an affair with an older woman while they were married, which led to her filing for divorce. In her video, Jen explained that “everyone in the situation” knew who she was. She claimed Brian’s other woman told her, “‘I knew about you. He talked about you all the time, but I didn’t know you had so many followers.'”
Jen went on to say the woman was “old enough to know better.” In another video, Jen shared that Brian’s alleged mistress was 56 years old.
Jen initially didn’t share the reason for their split on social media. Jen and Brian released a joint statement on June 15 to share that they’d ended their marriage after 15 years together. “This comes with enormous pain for both of us but also gratitude for the 15 years of shared history, love and friendship,” they wrote, per People. “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.”
They continued, “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.”
@_jen_hamilton_ Nipples in the wind. #nosecretsclub ♬ original sound – Jen Hamilton
Does Jen Hamilton have kids?
Jen and Brian share two sons, Ellis and Luke. Ellis was born in 2012, while Luke came along four years later.
