Kristina Kuzmic: The most famous mom on Facebook and her ultimate success story

How can you, having reached the bottom, launch yourself into absolute fame and become a star on social media, with all that entails?

Kristina Kuzmic knows the answer better than anyone, who managed to overcome the obstacles of life and catch the good one with the help of social media.

Divorced, depressed and with no prospects in her life, Kristina had reached the bottom line. With two babies in her arms, she was forced to live on meager social benefits.

No remarkable prospects opened before her. And then he turned to Facebook. She had nothing and was honest from the beginning. She went to sleep on the floor of the room she shared with her children and fed them discount food coupons.

So she came out on social media, as a test mom. And she said to make fun of herself, exorcising as if evil. But Kristina made a big impression on the Facebook audience, everyone immediately recognized that this mom was something else. Or, rather, it was something else.

Witty and penetrating, he laughed at situations that any parent can identify with. Who has not experienced the hysteria of his young children? Who has not tasted the conflicting nature of adolescence?

The videos that Kristina started making were made immediately viral. Today they have over 1 billion views, winning the hearts of all parents in America and beyond.

Kuzmic is now a real celebrity on social media. Whatever the content of her videos, they are accepted with incredible enthusiasm.

The “toilet trauma”, for example, for the fact that no one changes the finished toilet paper, collected 33 million views in less than 10 days. We are talking about such a phenomenon.

“I think the reason they identify with me is because I’m a fairly straight person and I do not beautify my life or motherhood as perfect,” she says, trying to explain her unimaginable success.

After all, a mom is and that only “sells” to social media. It does not represent the influencer, nor the expert. And that’s probably why millions of people have put it in their hearts…

The unexpected phenomenon of Facebook

“All we want is to live normally and feel that we are not the only ones struggling in life,” she says with her unformed simplicity. “I think my videos have helped my parents feel less alone.”

Driven by her disarming straightforwardness, Kristina has gathered a large online community around her parents, a network of people who share experiences and try to help each other. And they have it as the “brain” of it all, destroying the illusion of perfection.

Kristina’s daily life is completely normal, in the complicated way we define it at least. Mess at home is normal. Burning food is normal. Going on a business date wearing the same stained shirt you put on yesterday, and that in life is.

Even locking yourself in the bathroom for a while pretending to take a shower to find some time for yourself is allowed. Kristina does this and does it extremely well, exposing the cloak of “normalcy” to reveal real life. But also her funny side maternity.

“We put so much pressure on ourselves to respond to an unimaginable number of things every day, to be the perfect parents who never make mistakes, to be able to give everything to our children and so much more,” she says. her honesty, “but we constantly feel guilty, we are exhausted, we are deranged”.

What needs to be done? “The most important thing is to realize that we are human and have flaws, not to set unrealistic expectations for ourselves.”

This is what Kristina writes, says and plows people to advise, Kristina reassuring parents that they are not alone in what they go through. “We also need time for ourselves, whether it is 10 minutes or a few hours. Seek help from others. Asking for help does not make you insufficient, it means that you are smart enough to know that we all need help to give our best.

The 42-year-old mother of three insists that she has flaws first. Only instead of hiding them, he brags about them.

She is tired sometimes and sometimes she has nerves. That is why it is so true. “Perfection is boring,” as its slogan is.

How to become an online giant

It was 2011 when Kuzmic was selected by 20,000 nominees as the new TV star on her show Winfrey Opera. The tired but optimistic mom got her first (cooking) show on the Oprah Winfrey Network and started giving lectures to parents.

“I realized that people identify with me when I started receiving endless emails and messages from parents, where they opened up to me, shared their own struggles with me,” she says of the start of her astronomical success. “They felt I understood them. And I do. I have common experiences with everyone “.

The more she began to share the difficulties of raising children alone, the more people loved her. Honest to the point of misunderstanding, witty and funny, she flooded the feeds of social media with video who called on people to embrace their madness, bass and find the personal balance to manage the twisted daily life.

And she knows well if nothing but difficulties. Life threw her down several times, but she found the strength to get up from the floor. The floor where she used to sleep with her two children, doing two jobs to put a plate of food in front of them and a tile over their heads.

This was not exactly the life she dreamed of when she married her first husband at the age of 22 and by the time she was 26 she had two children in her arms. Kuzmic immigrated to the US as a teenager, leaving her hometown in Croatian in the flames and destruction of war.

When her family returned to Croatia to rebuild her life, she remained in America. And she stayed to complete her studies in California and try her luck in acting.

At the age of 27, however, the bitter divorce came, 18 months after the birth of her second child, and everything was turned upside down for her. He now lived in poverty and misery. And he was struggling with depression.

Family has always been her big dream, but it was not the only thing she wanted to do in life. And now he had ended up a simple mom. And even a mom who had hit rock bottom.

All he could do in these conditions was to make short cooking videos with whatever food he could find every day, uploading them to Facebook. And then everything changed magically!

She managed to stand out from 20,000 candidates in the TV contest “Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” and found her own broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey television network.

But also with the support of the iron lady of American television. “What is this thing?”, Oprah wondered, introducing her, “she is so charming and charismatic and communicates so well with the audience that it makes you feel like ” I know her, I want to be like her, I’m like her ‘. ‘. Kristina has it all. I want to watch her! “

Oprah loved herself as much as the rest of the world: her humor and witty conversations. But also her incredible ability to make the world accept the unexplored chaos that is fatherhood and motherhood.

After working with Oprah, Kristina went her own way, making her own videos for parents around the world. And she saw her Facebook followers reach 2.8 million, people of all ages, races and classes.

The creative, but always humble, mom he seems to have the touch of Midas in whatever he does. Her first book (“Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still”, February 2020) immediately became a bestseller and tickets for her lectures all over the US (“Hope & Humor” tour) sold out immediately.

Kuzmic finally remarried and had a third child, with the circumstances of her life having changed of course. And they changed because she wanted to and chased it. She reinvented herself in the most difficult period. And this is what all parents out there want to remember in their darkest moments.

With humor and hope, everything can be done…