Mikayla Nogueira Speaks Up After Her Divorce

Beauty influencer and founder of POV Beauty Mikayla Nogueira has finally spoken up about her divorce from her husband of two years, Cody Hawken.

Nogueira has previously kept most of her life private on social media, especially her marriage, and has strived to make her fans happy with every video she posted—whether it was a makeup routine or GRWM. This was until Nogueira no longer wanted to be silent about what was truly happening behind closed doors. On Oct. 5, 2026, she spoke up about her separation on the Jay Shetty Podcast.

Beyond being a businesswoman and influencer who is loved across platforms, she is a woman who dealt with childhood trauma like bullying. She has considered herself not beautiful, despite being a beauty influencer. Many people have doubted her, but she fought through the hate and continued to thrive and grow as an impactful influencer whom many young girls look up to for makeup tips.

She grew confident and held her head high as a woman who stood out from the rest, but nothing could have prepared her for a man she once loved to change into someone she could no longer recognize. Nogueira met Cody Hawken on Tinder during the rise of her career in 2020.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was recording makeup tutorials on TikTok and growing her platform. After moving out of her parents’ house and into her own apartment, she longed for companionship—someone she could share life with, she says on the On Purpose podcast.

As she was navigating the influencer world, Cody was fresh out of rehab. He was living in a sober house, also longing for compassion as he went through sobriety.

Nogueira understood that this relationship would mean taking a risk, but this was a chance she was willing to take. She attended AA meetings with Cody to understand sobriety and what it meant to be an addict, educating herself on a subject that was foreign to her.

Their relationship had taken off very quickly, from dating to being engaged to being married for two years, until the excitement of being in love turned it into an emotional rollercoaster.

He had relapsed more than once during their relationship, first at the beginning of their relationship, and then after their wedding. Cody’s addiction progressed during their marriage as her career progressed, which made their relationship dark and exhausting.

One night, Nogueira woke up, and Cody wasn’t in bed. Her nightmare turned into a reality when she saw him slumped over in his chair, unconscious. This sent her into a fright, afraid of her husband not waking up from an overdose. This moment left her traumatized, seeing him as a different person from who she fell in love with in the first place.

She realized she can’t save him if he doesn’t want to be saved—leaving her to choose herself in the end. She filed for a divorce in February 2026 and announced it by uploading her “finally divorced” content on TikTok. This release shocked her fans but made them happy, as she was moving on from her past and starting a new journey in her life.

No one truly knows what happens behind closed doors. Nogueira went through so much in her marriage, loving a man struggling with sobriety, meanwhile keeping a smile for her fans —not letting them see her at her lowest. After filing for divorce, focusing on herself, and building POV Beauty, she later found love again with a man who makes her happy. She came out of this situation stronger than before and became a true inspiration for young girls looking to find their inner beauty as she did.

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