{"id":2481527,"date":"2026-06-30T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2481527"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:50:41","slug":"jen-hamilton-steps-back-from-nursing-amid-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jen-hamilton-steps-back-from-nursing-amid-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Hamilton Steps Back From Nursing Amid Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Influencer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/who-is-jen-hamilton-influencer-hints-at-split-from-husband\/\"><strong>Jen Hamilton<\/strong><\/a> confirmed that she is stepping away from her nursing job amid her separation from estranged husband, <strong>Brian Hamilton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m taking some time off of work, which is something that I never, ever wanted,\u201d Jen, 37, announced in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DaMEYWOCE8j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a vlog<\/a> on Monday, June 29. \u201cMy patients do not deserve the mental state that I would bring to the bedside right now. One moment, I\u2019m OK. The next moment, I\u2019m not OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per her website, Jen has worked as an ER and obstetrics nurse for more than a decade, specializing in helping mothers through giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know when those moments [of not being OK] are and my patients deserve so much better than that,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is so much happening that is so complicated that I wish that I could share right now and I cannot. Just know that I am being a kickass mom, not just to my children but to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4364077\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Jen Hamilton<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Weiss Eubanks\/NBCUniversal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Jen and Brian wed in 2012 and they share two sons: Ellis and Luke.)<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, Jen fought back tears in a TikTok vlog where she revealed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-jen-hamilton-breaks-silence-on-split-from-husband\/\">she\u2019d separated from husband Brian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m feeling embarrassed and feeling exposed and feeling sad, feeling every single thing you probably possibly feel,\u201d she shared with followers. \u201cMy publicists say that I should make a statement \u2018when I\u2019m ready.\u2019 There is no being ready. But there\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She subsequently shared a joint statement with Brian, thereby confirming the split.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we are separating,\u201d their joint statement read. \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-jen-hamilton-and-husband-brians-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Relationship-Timeline.jpg?crop=0px%2C119px%2C1500px%2C848px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Influencer Jen Hamilton and Husband Brian\u2019s Relationship Timeline: From Marriage to Separation\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-jen-hamilton-and-husband-brians-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Influencer Jen Hamilton and Husband Brian\u2019s Relationship Timeline<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tInfluencer Jen Hamilton and her husband, Brian, have been candid about their relationship through the years. The couple exchanged vows in 2012, before welcoming sons Ellis and Luke. In June 2026, Jen \u2014 who sparked speculation that the pair had called it quits \u2014 shared her side of the story on where they stand in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Hamiltons went on, \u201cWe 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\u2019t about falling out of love. That\u2019s 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\u2019s exactly what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that video, Jen promised fans that she was \u201cgonna be alright\u201d \u2014 but she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-jen-hamilton-compares-pain-of-divorce-to-labor\/\">compared the separation to the pain of childbirth<\/a> in a subsequent vlog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like labor,\u201d Jen said in a June 20 video. \u201cYou\u2019ll be OK for a minute and here comes a contraction! And another thing about this and labor is I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s going to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/everything-hgtv-exes-jen-and-brandon-hatmaker-have-said-about-their-divorce\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=400%2C225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Everything-HGTV-Exes-Jen-and-Brandon-Hatmaker-Have-Said-About-Their-Divorce-feature.jpg?crop=213px%2C178px%2C1519px%2C859px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Everything HGTV Exes Jen and Brandon Hatmaker Have Said About Their Divorce\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/everything-hgtv-exes-jen-and-brandon-hatmaker-have-said-about-their-divorce\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Everything HGTV Exes Jen and Brandon Hatmaker Have Said About Their Divorce<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHGTV couple Jen and Brandon Hatmaker\u2019s 2020 split and subsequent divorce\u00a0rocked both of their worlds. Former Your Big Family Renovation host Jen stunned fans in July 2020 by announcing that her family was \u201cin a moment with no handbook and without a single clue how to navigate this privately, much less publicly\u201d as she split [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Birth Vibes<\/em> author continued, \u201cThe thing that is annoying me right now \u2014 that I know it shouldn\u2019t be annoying to me, but I wish that I had something stable to count on \u2014 is the labileness of my feelings right now. Because I can wake feeling OK and, like, do stuff and get stuff done and feel like a boss and then somebody mentions something and I\u2019m just a puddle on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s vlog, Jen made it clear that she will continue to root for Brian despite how their marriage ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven after everything that has happened, I have no animosity, no ill will. I want him to find himself,\u201d she explained. \u201cI want him to be the bestest version of himself that he\u2019s ever been. I\u2019m gonna be his biggest cheerleader as he is on that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jen then vowed, \u201cI\u2019m also going to be my biggest cheerleader. I am going to model for my children what it means to have healthy relationships, healthy self-worth and allowing those that we love the very most in this world to accept and embrace the gift that is accountability and consequence for the decisions that we make in this life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer Jen Hamilton confirmed that she is stepping away from her nursing job amid her separation from estranged husband, Brian Hamilton. \u201cI\u2019m taking some time off of work, which is something that I never, ever wanted,\u201d Jen, 37, announced in a vlog on Monday, June 29. \u201cMy patients do not deserve the mental state that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2481528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,37741,22423],"class_list":["post-2481527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-splits","tag-divorce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jen-Hamilton-Steps-Back-From-Nursing-Amid-Split.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481529,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481527\/revisions\/2481529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}