Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

It's weird to me that she made it through Thanksgiving/Christmas and New Years, and now coming home. Those are sort of big deals...plus dad's wedding. I would think she would've come home sooner if it was a homesick thing.

[Anonymous]

I see this thread come up so often. Can anyone give me a summary of who this person is and why DCUM loves (or hates) or so much?

[Anonymous]

I just watched the video too. It was under 4 minutes. And I didn't expect the whole entire thing to be about Remy, but it is. Just reading between the lines, she talks about the fact Remy has learned to resolve conflict and be her own voice and handle difficult situations and really grow up. She makes it sound like they talked ahead of time about how long she should stay, but it doesn't seem to make much sense she's coming home halfway through January. Seems like Christmas would have been a better time to leave comma from the semester was over? Anyway best of luck to Remy. I did think it was sweet that Jen said they have talked every day and that she really has missed her!
I hope they have a good relationship and can find a good rhythm and flow.

[Anonymous]

Oh that's interesting but she did emphasize that she couldn't be Remy's 'voice' over there so yeah, maybe that was foreshadowing some growth. She def was spinning it to Remy that 'no one can take this experience away from her' so perhaps that also was a way of getting Remy to accept if she WAS asked to leave...

[Anonymous]

Why would she be asked to leave? The only person I know who’s been asked to leave a program like this broke the law while in the country of stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would she be asked to leave? The only person I know who’s been asked to leave a program like this broke the law while in the country of stay.

It can also be stuff like not making curfew, not keeping up with assignments, or some sort of conflict with personalities in the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Pretty sure she was booted from the program, of course Jen will never tell the public the actual truth.

Not necessarily booted, she could’ve asked to come home on her own. It would be hard for a teenager to leave home and be on the other side of the world, while your family has broken apart, and your dad remarried without you there.

And no one has visited you.....

When I studied abroad in Spain, many people promised to come visit but because it's so expensive and life gets in way, no one came. I was 22 so NBD but she's awfully young. If they were promising to have family come visit and she went 4 months and 2 major holidays wo, then maybe she's really homesick

When I was a high school exchange student, family visits were not allowed until the very end of the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see this thread come up so often. Can anyone give me a summary of who this person is and why DCUM loves (or hates) or so much?

No, use the Google

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, use the Google

😆 I almost said the same. Or just start 1/2-way or 3/4-way through this board’s pages and read… posts will fill in the details - there are summaries and commentaries all throughout

[Anonymous]

Jen is a former Christian Mommy Blogger who rose to fame based on being sassy and “real” and “authentic” who eventually got a lot of initial fame and book sales about 8-10 years ago and even briefly had an HGTV show, which was pretty unwatchable in that they aren’t the Gainses’ although she and her cosplay biker ex-husband were desperate for it despite not knowing shit about construction or design beyond basic white last Hobby Lobby Chic, and then got very political and woke as Trump came to the political sphere and pivoted hard towards a secular deconstructionist market where she monetized Trump recovery in the name of “serving her community”. Then got divorced and saw a lot of followers lose interest and then quickly found a sassy BIGBOY who
Has never married and loves musicals and writes swooning tributes to old White ladies who’ve recently passed on… through a joint publicist, which is how all beautiful romances find their origins.

Now she’s a constant hawker of cheap fast fashion, wine subscriptions, and over-priced face moisturizers.

Which she totes swears by and uses every night, y’all!

[Anonymous]

So many typos, now corrected.


Jen aka Big Sis is a former Christian Mommy Blogger who rose to fame based on being sassy and “real” and “authentic” and who eventually got a lot of initial fame and book sales about 8-10 years ago and even briefly had an HGTV show (which was pretty unwatchable in that she and her cosplay biker ex aren’t the Gainses’ although she and her cosplay, not knowing shit about construction or design beyond basic suburban white wine woman Hobby Lobby Chic.

And then Big Sis got very political and woke as Trump came to the political sphere and pivoted hard towards a secular deconstructionist market where she monetized things like spiritual trauma recovery all in the name of “serving her community”.

Then she got divorced and saw a lot of followers lose interest and then quickly found a sassy BIGBOY who
has never married and loves musicals and writes swooning tributes to old White ladies who’ve recently passed on… through a joint publicist, which is how all beautiful romances find their origins.

Now she’s a constant hawker of cheap fast fashion, wine subscriptions, and over-priced face moisturizers. Which she totes swears by and uses every night, y’all!

[Anonymous]

Some of y'all are really wild. Guess what--study abroad programs don't hold you hostage. Hell, even the Peace Corps will let you leave and that's after the US government has invested thousands of dollars in your language training.

Maybe Remy did something to be asked to leave, but we have no reason to believe that, and it's perfectly normal that a kid who has already experienced the dislocation and trauma of international adoption and then a divorce would feel homesick and sad at missing major holidays. Maybe she didn't realize how much she'd miss being home for Christmas, saw everything and said "nope, I want to go home." Maybe she misses her school friends. Maybe she misses her car. There's no reason to think she was expelled when these programs will LET YOU LEAVE because they cannot keep a minor somewhere against their will, that's called kidnapping!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of y'all are really wild. Guess what--study abroad programs don't hold you hostage. Hell, even the Peace Corps will let you leave and that's after the US government has invested thousands of dollars in your language training.

Maybe Remy did something to be asked to leave, but we have no reason to believe that, and it's perfectly normal that a kid who has already experienced the dislocation and trauma of international adoption and then a divorce would feel homesick and sad at missing major holidays. Maybe she didn't realize how much she'd miss being home for Christmas, saw everything and said "nope, I want to go home." Maybe she misses her school friends. Maybe she misses her car. There's no reason to think she was expelled when these programs will LET YOU LEAVE because they cannot keep a minor somewhere against their will, that's called kidnapping!

I was confused why posters are essentially saying high school exchange program = you signed over your soul and are held hostage lol

Like…pretty sure they have to let someone leave, especially a minor, if they want to? Maybe half a year mark they let students shorten their time if they decide to? Maybe there would be financial consequences but pretty sure they’re not allowed to kidnap anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was confused why posters are essentially saying high school exchange program = you signed over your soul and are held hostage lol

Like…pretty sure they have to let someone leave, especially a minor, if they want to? Maybe half a year mark they let students shorten their time if they decide to? Maybe there would be financial consequences but pretty sure they’re not allowed to kidnap anyone.

The financial consequences (definitely—I had a friend sent home for drinking too much alcohol and they lost a ton of money) as well as the kink it throws in her junior year school year class work and credits are probably exactly why people figured the timing seemed strange. Not that she could or would be held “hostage” there otherwise… But if she was having a blast and if she had already made it past holidays and her dad‘s wedding without coming home, what’s a few more months? Timing seemed strange.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure you’re spreading online gossip about a child, maliciously. Pretty sure that’s really weird.

Agree with this, and the stand down soldier too. Will at least give pp benefit of the doubt that intent was less about attacking whatever Remy might have done to have her school year abroad cut short, and more about the frustration with how Jen tries to hide it and spin it. She suggests her brand is all about her authenticity, but it’s very inconsistent. Most of her “material” is quite manipulated.

Another reason Remy should probably live primarily with Brandon/Tina. She could use some stability and they wouldn’t be trying to use glimpses of Remy (in photos or stories) as a part of their socials-shows-and-shilling.

Agree. Not about attacking Remy, rather the way Jen spins it. Totally agree with what’s being said here, Remy probably would be better off in the long run living with her dad.