Brooke Hogan got candid about navigating adulthood as a working mom.
“So I wanted to come on here and talk about something that I think everybody needs to hear. I know it helps me when I hear it and it’s rare that I do. But I’ve found a lot of the power in my social media and my following, you guys, is that when I express something I’m going through — and I only recently started doing that — I’m shocked at the amount of people that are going through the same thing or feeling the same way,” Hogan, 38, said in a lengthy Saturday, June 6, Instagram video. “Whether it be about motherhood or family.”
She continued, “When you grow up you aren’t told you’re still not going to feel like you know what you are doing. Does anyone know what they are doing? I still feel like, ‘Why do I have 18,000 passwords and emails and paper mail still, like what is happening?’ And I can’t tell you how many people assume — right like, I’ll be on the phone with somebody and they’ll say, ‘I’m sure you got tons of people helping you and you’ve got your team.’ I’m like, ‘What team? What team?’”
Hogan explained that she has a record label, which includes a man and his son, who has been a “huge support system.” Aside from them, Hogan shared that she and her husband, Steven Oleksy, have a nanny to help with their twins.
“I don’t have a publicist,” she explained. “I have a nanny that comes and helps because we literally have twins and I have a bad back and my husband has to go work sometimes and I have to go work sometimes. We’re really doing it on our own. Like, we really are. Not just living like ‘celebrity.’ There’s no village.”
Brooke shared that her lack of a “village” is not due to her estrangement from her family, which included dad Hulk Hogan, who died in 2025 of a heart attack. (Hulk left his daughter, whom he shared with ex-wife Linda Hogan, out of the will. Hulk also shared Nick Hogan with his ex-wife, whom he divorced in 2009.)
“And that’s not just because of family estrangement,” she said. “I feel like the world we live in now, nowadays, most families have to be dual-income households, and most people have to move for work. A lot of people don’t live near their family. So it’s not just estrangement, I think a lot of people are in the same predicament and even if you do live near people that love you, they have their own stuff going on. Like, they need help, they need a village. So I feel like we live in a world that expects so much of us.”
Brooke went on to reflect on how the world is different than when she was growing up in the ‘90s, before explaining that she feels like she’s “dealing with a couple different sets of circumstances.”
“Listen, I’m not depressed, like, ‘I hate my life.’ I love my life, I love my husband, I love my kids. We’re so blessed, we’re healthy,” she said. “I know all those things, but I feel like I’m running on empty. I feel like I can’t keep up. I feel like I can’t make everybody happy. I can’t force myself to not be genuine on social media. I don’t want to push products down people’s throat. That’s just not me.”
While continuing to reflect on her “mental load,” Brooke captioned the post, “Am I the only one? 😅.”
