Jen Hamilton's Bold Move: New Book Teased Amidst Marriage Drama
Jen Hamilton is getting to work on the follow-up to her New York Times bestselling memoir after accusing her estranged husband, Brian Hamilton, of living a “double life.”
“Back in April / May, I was working on the proposal for my second book. I was having a really hard time putting it on paper,” Jen, 35, revealed via Instagram on Thursday, July 30. “It was going to be about loving yourself and not caring what anyone thinks, living your best life. I think I was having trouble because the Lord was about to shineth upon me and hand me a different manuscript. Apparently, I did not love myself like I thought that I did.”
She then joked, “What a time to be a New York Times bestselling memoirist!”
Jen reached the top of the bestseller chart with her debut memoir, Birth Vibes: Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth, in May. The nonfiction book shares empowering and poignant stories from Jen’s work as a labor and delivery nurse.
Weeks after releasing Birth Vibes, Jen announced her separation from Brian after “15 years of shared history” and has since accused him of living a “double life with a woman who was 56 years old.” (Brian has not responded to Jen’s accusations.)
In Thursday’s vlog, Hamilton confirmed that she is now working on “take two of that second book proposal” and even shared a few “direct quotes” from the manuscript without any context.
“Is it my heart that hurts? My liver? My uterus? Certainly not my clitoris, that’s for sure,” she quipped, before reading another random section, “Hell yeah, girl. Let them titties fly free.”
She teased two more unfiltered statements from the currently untitled memoir, reading, “I would let you fart directly into my mouth. … I put my pubes into a bun this morning.”
“I hope y’all want to read that someday,” she concluded with a big laugh.
Fans will have to wait for the release of Jen’s second book to find out the exact context of those jaw-dropping lines of dialogue, though she has offered some insight on where she stands now with Brian.
On Wednesday, July 29, Jen shared apparent text exchanges where she encouraged her ex to “take advantage of every resource that has been given to you.”
“I will always love you. And that’s the part that hurts worst of all,” she wrote to her ex.
Jen admitted in that same video that there are still aspects of Brian’s alleged “double life” that she may not be aware of.
“Me, now? Me, big, strong girl. OK? Me, independent girl. Me, ‘don’t need no man’ girl. Me, ‘get out of bad relationship’ girl. But I feel like I need to get out ahead of something,” she said. “If anything comes out about other things this guy’s done in my marriage, just listen. Me, now? Me, big, strong girl. Me, independent girl. Me, back then? Me, insecure girl. Me, desperate girl.”
She added later in the vlog, “I wish to God that I could say I was strong enough to leave at the first situation. Nah. But, looking back, I don’t regret loving him as much as I did. Because I love really hard and I don’t want that to change about me. I don’t regret seeing the best in him because I try to see the best in everybody. But, for me, it had to be this bad. It had to be this bad because I love that man so much.”
Jen has vowed to keep Hamilton as her last name despite the split since it has become synonymous with her brand and activism.
“It’s my name now,” she insisted via Instagram on Monday, July 27. “I made this name special and I’m gonna keep it.”
Jen and Brian married in 2012 and share two sons, Ellis and Luke.
