Brooke Hogan, 38, opened up in a June 6 Instagram video about working motherhood and pushed back against assumptions that she has a “team” supporting her. She said she doesn’t have a publicist, relies on a record label support system, and also credits help fro
Brooke Hogan looked straight into the camera and said she wanted to talk about something she believes “everybody needs to hear.”
In a lengthy Saturday. June 6 Instagram video. the 38-year-old working mom described how her social media—something she says she only recently started using more openly—has become a place where people recognize their own lives. When she shares what she’s going through. Hogan said she’s been “shocked” by how many others feel the same way. whether it’s about motherhood or family.
Then she pivoted to the part of adulthood that doesn’t get talked about enough: the relentless, quiet management that continues even when you’re doing everything right. As she put it, growing up doesn’t prepare people for the feeling that you’re still behind.
“I still feel like, ‘Why do I have 18,000 passwords and emails and paper mail still, like what is happening?’” Hogan said. The bigger frustration, though, came from the way outsiders try to explain her life through shortcuts.
She said people assume she must have help—someone handling things behind the scenes.
“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 said.
Hogan shared that her support system looks nothing like what people imagine. She has a record label that includes a man and his son, whom she described as a “huge support system.” But beyond that, her daily reality is smaller and more personal.
“I don’t have a publicist,” Hogan 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.”
She added that she doesn’t live in the kind of “village” many people picture.
“There’s no village,” Hogan said.
Hogan also addressed what she says her lack of a village isn’t about. She said it’s not due to estrangement from her family—even as she noted her dad. Hulk Hogan. who died in 2025 of a heart attack. She also pointed out that Hulk left his daughter. whom he shared with ex-wife Linda Hogan. out of the will. and that Hulk shared Nick Hogan with his ex-wife. whom he divorced in 2009.
“And that’s not just because of family estrangement,” Hogan 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.”
She said even when families are close, help still doesn’t always land the way people expect because everyone is carrying something.
“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,” she said. “So I feel like we live in a world that expects so much of us.”
In her comments, Hogan returned to the gap between now and the past. She reflected on how the world is different than it was when she was growing up in the ‘90s, and she said she feels like she’s “dealing with a couple different sets of circumstances.”
The theme of doing it without the imaginary backup is echoed in what Hogan has already shared in recent weeks. On Saturday, March 29, Hogan wrote via Instagram, “Back to R E A L I T Y. 🩷,” alongside a snap with husband Steven Oleksy, and she posted carousel images in which she cradled their newborn twins.
Around the same time. she also responded to her mom Linda Hogan’s recent claims that they hadn’t spoken in eight years. In a Thursday. March 27 Instagram statement. Hogan wrote that she tries “very hard to ignore issues surrounding my family in hopes I might have peace in my life. ” and she said she had intentionally made herself smaller in her professional life.
Hogan has been clear about her own headspace, too. In that March 27 statement. she said. “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. ” while also saying she feels “like I’m running on empty. ” unable to “keep up. ” unable to “make everybody happy. ” and unable to force herself to not be genuine on social media.
She added that she doesn’t want to push products down people’s throat, captioning the post, “Am I the only one? 😅.”
Taken together. Hogan’s June 6 message lands like a boundary drawn in plain language: the “team” people assume exists isn’t the way her life works. The help she has is specific—her husband. her nanny. and the support around her record label—not a glossy entourage. And she says the rest is the kind of real daily load that most adults never get a handbook for.
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A “team”?? People need to mind their business.
Not sure why everyone thinks she has a whole staff. Like you could literally hire someone to answer emails for you though? Idk, “team” can be anything.
Wait so she doesn’t have a publicist but she has a record label thing with a man and his son… so like what, that counts as no help? Kinda sounds like help to me lol. Also 18,000 passwords is relatable tho.
The headline made it sound like she was roasting everybody for calling her rich, but it’s really just about motherhood and passwords? People are always assuming celebrities have someone doing everything. I’m surprised she even has to deal with paper mail like a normal person, thought “record label support system” would mean everything gets handled.