Kristin Chirico is an American content creator who rose to fame for her work on BuzzFeed’s Ladylike videos. Chirico’s creativity and bubbly personality drew people to the series and to her. She left the media in January 2020 to pursue a career in social media with her friend Jen Ruggirello.
Chirico and Jen formed the YouTube channel, The Kitchen & Jorn show, which currently has 221K subscribers. Kristin is also doing well on other social media platforms including Instagram (420K followers) and TikTok (150.1K followers).
This article will look at why Kristin and Jen left BuzzFeed, Kristin’s husband, and his body positivity campaign.
Kristin and Jen left BuzzFeed because they were suffering physically and mentally from the workload.
Kristin and Jen were part of the team that made Elegant so successful for BuzzFeed. Their friendship blossomed during the five years they spent working at BuzzFeed. Unfortunately, Jen and Kristin’s happy faces on the show masked the frustration that came with the weight of expectations placed upon them by the BuzzFeed hierarchy. Jen explained in a video posted to her channel on December 4, 2020:
“There were pretty high quotas and that meant you had to shoot a lot, and you had to come up with new ideas, and new content had to be released… but the amount of resources and the amount of faith that the company leaders really seemed to go downhill. . You’re in a situation where a lot is being asked of you and it seems like the ‘end goal’ is getting further and further away.”
Rapidly rising expectations and declining support put a lot of stress on content creators like Jen and Kristin. Kristin became so mentally ill that she started having suicidal thoughts. For a year and a half, Kristin had no desire to live, but she couldn’t leave BuzzFeed because she didn’t believe she could succeed outside of the company.
Eventually, Kristin and Jen made a mental health decision and left the company. Kristin had casually mentioned the idea of creating a YouTube channel to Jen, and the couple opted to jump on that opportunity. The duo posted their first video in early October 2020, and two months later, the channel is doing really well.
Kristin and Jen told their story because they wanted to raise awareness about the workplace at BuzzFeed. On December 5, 2020, Kristin wrote on Twitter:
At the very least: I hope someone will sound the alarm on Buzzfeed that when you have employees who are putting personal stuff in the camera for company profit that doesn’t belong to them and for which they don’t get waste: you have a duty to take care of the mental well-being of those people.
Kristin’s partner Brian came out as non-binary publicly in late June 2019.
Kristin and her partner Brian were married on March 19, 2017. On March 19, 2020, Kristin wished Brian a happy 3rd anniversary through an Instagram caption appreciating how much he has changed during their marriage. Perhaps the biggest change is that Brian now identifies as non-binary. They made the announcement at the end of June 2019. Chirico wrote on Twitter that he waited until Brian was comfortable with his new identity before addressing them as they/they on social media. She said:
“I had to find a way to respect their gender while also respecting their timeline and process for coming out, so I didn’t bring them up as much until they felt comfortable being referred to as they/they in public.”
Kristin is a huge supporter of body positivity and is against all forms of discrimination.
Kristin has long championed body positivity and still reminds people to appreciate all body types. She admits that she sometimes finds it hard to love her body, but she always finds a way to bring back her body positivity. On September 20, 2019, she attached the following caption along with a couple of Instagram photos:
“Viewing photos of me is often difficult, for a variety of reasons related to my mental health, but this team of people put their brains together to find some beauties that made it so much easier.”
Chirico is strongly against all forms of discrimination and was one of the famous voices behind the Black Lives Matter movement. On May 31, he posted a photo on Instagram with the following message:
“I’m going to ‘lead with love.’ And by ‘lead with love’ I mean ‘I’m going to let my love for justice lead me to open my damn wallet to support the people who fight for Black Justice.’”
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