Superstar Hairstylist Jen Atkin to Transfer to Seattle After Dropping House in L.A. Fires

• Hairstylist Jen Atkin shared that she and her household can be shifting to Seattle after shedding their house within the Los Angeles wildfires.
• Atkin, her husband Mike Rosenthal and their son River have been staying in Seattle since evacuating L.A.
• The OUAI founder mentioned she is “discovering gratitude on this unplanned pivot.”

Jen Atkin is making a giant life change after shedding her house within the Los Angeles wildfires.

In a collection of Instagram Tales posts on Wednesday, Jan. 22, the movie star hairstylist, 44, introduced that she and her household are shifting to Seattle, the place they’ve been staying since evacuating L.A.

“So we have determined Seattle is house,” she shared in a textual content put up. “We’ll slowly discover dr’s, faculties, and construct group right here. We have been coming for 3 yrs and have so many particular spots we love and are discovering gratitude on this unplanned pivot.”

The OUAI founder went on to clarify that she plans to commute to L.A. for her enterprise and “proceed to make use of my platform to assist rebuild and heal the nice metropolis of Los Angeles.”

In a separate put up, Atkin mentioned she’s been battling “survivor’s guilt” after “leaving our metropolis we love and never being on the bottom to assist.”

The hairstylist additionally mentioned she was “bombarded with insurance coverage questions” and confronted stress to search out architects and rebuild her house rapidly, which in the end led to the choice to relocate to Seattle.

“It is all so manic and you’ll’t assume straight,” she recalled.

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Atkin started sharing emotional updates on her evacuation together with her household (together with her husband, Mike Rosenthal, and their canine) on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

“That is bizarre to put up however our home is gone,” she wrote on Instagram Tales together with a photograph of herself crying. “We simply acquired affirmation. Our complete space demolished. So many are displaced and feeling scared proper now it is nearly an excessive amount of to grasp.”

Atkin and Rosenthal additionally shared earlier than and after photographs of their now-demolished house.

“The final 48 hours have been such an intense rollercoaster, alternating between robotic and crushing feelings,” Rosenthal wrote on his personal Instagram Tales. “Our home is gone. All the pieces in our home is gone past what we packed within the automotive. I do know they’re simply issues, and in lots of instances replaceable, however these issues turned the home into a house.”

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On Wednesday, Jan. 15, Atkin shared an replace on Instagram together with snapshots of her household’s expertise one week after evacuating. The duvet picture confirmed Atkin, Rosenthal, and their son River embracing and later within the put up, the stylist is pictured crying.

Within the caption, the hairstylist mirrored: “After now shedding our house we labored so laborious for, and many years of belongings, I can now warn others to arrange for catastrophe. Have a plan. Get to essentially know and care in your neighbors, as ours are all holding each other up rn.”