TodayContributor Jill Martin Divorcing Erik Brooks After 2 Years of Marriage Amid Cancer Journey

Mar. 15, 2025

Jill MartinandErik Brooksare going their separate ways after two years of marriage.

TheTODAYcontributor, 48, and the Ethos Capital founder, whotied the knot on Sept. 10, 2022, “are quietly divorcing,” a source tells PEOPLE.

The split comes over a year after Martin shared that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2023, shortly after she tested positive for theBRCA gene— which links to a significantly higher possibility of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

“Jill is focused on getting healthy and making a difference. She’s launching a new initiative onTODAYOct. 1 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And she’s starting a new business this month,” the source adds.

Page Sixwas first to report news of the divorce.

At the time of her diagnosis, Martin told PEOPLE that she was"grateful" her illness cameafter her and Brooks' wedding. She believed her “life will be defined [as] before and after the diagnosis,” Martin said, adding that she was “grateful” the diagnosis occurred after their wedding because it “was such a purely happy event.”

“I feel like this is a new chapter with a new journey,” Martin added. “[But] that’s not bad because I am going to take this. It will just be different.”

Jill Martin, Erik Brooks.Jill Martin/ Instagram

Jill Martin/ Instagram

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Erik Brooks and Jill Martin in 2022.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Since then, the lifestyle and commerce correspondent has documented her health journey, fromgetting a double mastectomytorecovering from chemotherapy treatments.

She said in apersonal essaypublished last August thatcancer “knocked me down,“after her double mastectomy, however, she was determined “to fight.”

Jill Martin, Erik Brooks.Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

“I thought it was important to share this journey with you in real time,” Martin continued. “I have shared the happy, the sad and now the scary. We will get through this together.”

source: people.com