“It just blew up into this thing. Weirdly, it became bigger than the Oprah thing,” Kristina said. “Let’s put it this way, when I won the Oprah thing and I was doing the cooking show, I had 3,000 followers on Facebook, and now I have over three-quarter of a million followers.”
Actually, Kristina just celebrated her 38th birthday in April and a milestone of reaching more than 860,000 followers on Facebook. Her newest video spotlights her 2-year-old son, and she not only tells how fun toddlers can be but shows it with finger painting on the sidewalk to cleaning the shower together like it’s a game.
“When I decided to stop waiting for this or that to happen before I was going to do what I wanted to do, and that’s the thing we all do, I’m just going to do me like the Frank Sinatra song, ‘I Did It My Way,’ that’s when success came,” she said.
Kristina is a contributor to LittleThings.com and has no qualms with being labeled the Truth Bomb Mom. She’s doing what she loves and encourages others to do the same.
“Stay authentic to who you are and just keep going” Kristina said. “Stop being who you think others need you to be, and just be you.”
Written by Jennifer Weaver
Jennifer is an award-winning journalist
and freelance writer from Orem, Utah.
We would like to thank our team: Karen Erekson, Shaun Anders, Nikee Miller, Missy Lovett, Becca Turner, Lindsey Bornes, and Jemima Street for sharing their incredible talent and huge hearts for this issue. We would also like to give a special thanks to the Schoonover family for welcoming us into their beautiful home to stage Kristina's photoshoot. In addition, we all would like to give a big thanks to Oteo's Restaurant for cooking us a fresh and delicious lunch on location! We enjoyed it very much.
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