Influencer Jen Hamilton is embracing her next chapter after her separation from estranged husband Brian Hamilton.
“It needed to be as bad as it was in order for me to leave because I forgave so freaking much in the marriage,” Jen, 36, said on the Thursday, October 8, episode of the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast, addressing her breakup. “It was, like, the push that I needed to be free. Since then, life has opened up.”
Jen announced in June that she and Brian, who share two sons, had separated after 14 years of marriage. The labor and delivery nurse has since claimed that Brian was unfaithful and had an affair with an older woman. (Brian has not publicly addressed their split or any of Jen’s accusations.)
“We broke up because I had found a secret TikTok account where he was like, doing what normal people do, buying nudes and stuff,” Jen alleged to podcast host Kylie Kelce. “I was like, ‘Nope, not doing this anymore,’ [and] kicked him out. In the time afterwards, he would be weird about talking about stuff or telling me stuff, and I was like, ‘If you don’t tell me right the second what I’m what I don’t know, I know people.’”
When Jen eventually questioned Brian, he allegedly admitted that he was having an affair before the mistress separately reached out to the content creator.
“It was a long conversation,” she said of her discussion with Brian’s affair partner. “I did get a little snarky, but I feel like I kept my composure pretty good. … There were words, and you know what? I wish him all the best. I hope he finds what he’s looking for.”
Jen and Brian have yet to file for divorce due to current North Carolina law, which stipulates that a couple must undergo a one-year separation before legally ending a marriage.
“I’m also trying to get North Carolina divorce law changed ‘cause it’s bulls***,” she quipped on Thursday. “You can be totally not even with your person for a full year and that other person, when it’s time to file for divorce, they can say, ‘Oh, I actually spent the night with her two weeks ago.’ Starts the timer over. … [The law] hasn’t been changed since 1931.”
According to Jen, she began advocating to change the marital statue after her friend’s own divorce took six years.
“A time when a woman is leaving is the most dangerous of her life, and so why would we keep women … tied to somebody who is a danger to them?” Jen stated. “That doesn’t make any sense, like, let them leave.”
