Influencer and comic Kat Stickler has routinely saved her followers guessing relating to her love life.
The TikTok star rose to fame through the pandemic alongside her husband, Mike Stickler, by way of posting household content material. The pair break up personally and professionally not lengthy after, nevertheless, in early 2021. (Mike and Kat are mother and father to 1 daughter, Mary-Katherine a.okay.a. MK.)
After her divorce, Kat dated Bachelor Nation star Jason Tartick for 5 months in 2024, throughout which era they developed an enormous following courtesy of their lovable {couples} content material. To many followers' shock, Kat and Tartick break up in October 2024, and he or she was later linked romantically to singer-songwriter John Mayer.
“It simply didn't work … I don't wish to discuss it,” Stickler instructed TikTok followers about her break up from Tartick. “I perceive that with posting a relationship on-line you even have to point out this aspect, the aftermath — Woohoo, so enjoyable I really like this!”
She went on, “However I simply needed to let you know guys and it's not love wasted. I really feel like generally it's really easy to suppose that when a relationship ends that the love is wasted. However love is rarely wasted. So, that's all I've to say.”
Maintain scrolling for extra on the influencer's love life.
Mike Stickler
Kat filmed TikTok movies through the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing her and her husband continuously pulling off light-hearted pranks with their daughter, MK. As a part of their movies, the couple shared that they obtained engaged and later married and have been anticipating MK all inside three months in 2019.
After followers seen in early 2021 that Kat was principally posting solo content material on the couple's account, she and Mike sat down for a joint video the place they addressed break up rumors.
“Sadly, [the rumors] are true,” she defined to viewers. “We're separating. We simply needed to be clear with you guys, since you guys have been with us from the start of this entire journey.”
Kat Stickler Wealthy Polk/Billboard by way of Getty Photos
Mike insisted that Kat was “not at fault in any respect for any of this,” including: “There's a variety of issues I must work on in my very own life.”
4 years after the break up, Kat hit back at hypothesis and criticism over her post-divorce courting life.
“I've had two critical relationships post-divorce, which was 5 years in the past,” Kat identified by way of Instagram. “If I actually cared what individuals thought, a) I most likely wouldn't do that for work. However b) I most likely would nonetheless be married!”
Cameron Walker
One of many two critical relationships Kat seemingly alluded to in her 2025 clapback was her 9 month romance with Walker between December 2021 and August 2022.
Kat later defined to her social media followers that it didn't work out with Walker as a result of she'd jumped right into a relationship too rapidly following her divorce from Mike.
Jason Tartick
Kat met and hit it off with the Bachelor Nation alum whereas guesting on his podcast “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” in April 2024. As soon as the pair went “Instagram Official” in June 2024, Kat and Tartick rapidly grew to become one of many web's favourite {couples}.
Followers excitedly adopted alongside as they documented main milestones — together with Tartick introducing Kat to his mother and father — by way of social media. Sadly, Tartick shocked followers in October 2024 by confirming he and Kat had gone their separate methods.
“I'm unhappy to share that Kat and I are not collectively,” Tartick wrote by way of Instagram Story. “It's truthful to say that I really like laborious with all my coronary heart and fall quick. Typically in life that works out and different occasions, it doesn't. This time it didn't.”
Tartick as soon as once more spoke out when followers suspected that the breakup could have been faked for one in every of their viral prank movies.
Kat Stickler and Jason Tartick Sara Jaye/Getty Photos for IHG Accommodations and Resorts
“It was very actual. It occurred fast, it occurred quick,” Tartick instructed his “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” listeners. “It was sudden and that was actually, actually laborious.”
Kat launched her own response when individuals have been crucial of her determination to introduce her younger daughter MK to Tartick so quickly into their relationship. The influencer confirmed that her ex-boyfriend — whom she didn't title within the publish — had hung out with MK, and that her daughter additionally met Stickler's “male associates” and “the husbands of my girlfriends.”
“Three issues, she's all the time with me when these males are launched in her life, and they're all the time launched as mommy's associates,” Stickler insisted. “She doesn't name anybody dad. She has a dad [and] that's by no means a degree of confusion for her, and I promise you guys, she is OK.”
She added, “I simply hope that MK is aware of I'm seeking to discover the suitable associate for the each of us, as a result of we're a package deal deal. And I do know I don't all the time make the suitable determination, however I be taught from my errors and each determination that I do make, it's as a result of it's what I believe is finest for my daughter and I.”
Thriller Man
Kat intrigued Instagram followers in July 2025 by seemingly soft-launching a brand new relationship with a thriller man. Within the clip, Kat admitted she was as a “woman whose entire life is on-line” earlier than reducing to her beau's torso and describing him as a “man whose entire life is personal.” (Her associate's face was by no means proven within the video.)
The horny video concluded with Kat playfully biting the thriller man's ear after which pulling him right into a kiss. The publish's tongue-in-cheek caption learn: “Excellent match? Right here we go once more.”
Her ex-boyfriend Tartick admitted to Instagram followers on the time that he had no concept Kat was planning to smooth launch a brand new relationship.
“First seeing that is this Q rn,” he added. “She deserves the very best in life. Really joyful for her.”
John Mayer
Kat and the ‘Your Physique Is a Wonderland' singer sparked courting rumors after they have been noticed on back-to-back dates. A supply later confirmed to Us Weekly that whereas the pair have been courting they weren't in a critical relationship.
“John sought her out and pursued her,” the insider revealed to Us. “Kat simply broke up with somebody she had been courting for a couple of months and thought it might be enjoyable so far once more, and was concerned about John.”
Nevertheless, Kat quickly raised eyebrows throughout a Q&A when she was requested whether or not or not she was courting anybody.
“I already instructed you [that I'm single],” she insisted. “I minimize all my hair off — out of the blue someday. You suppose I simply did that for no motive? It holds recollections.”
The comic went on, “Look, on the distance between my shoulder and my hair? OK, I believed you knew me higher than that. This was a cry for assist … [That's a] tell-tale signal of a relationship gone dangerous.”
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 