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Canadian influencer Aileen Christine, 29, is known as one half of the well-known couple, Aileen and Deven, who have recently celebrated 12 years together Aileen started her content creation journey on Instagram in 2018, sharing her style and love for travel. Her passion for content creation grew, leading her to launch a TikTok account where she shared personal aspects of her life, particularly her relationship. Her account, featuring comedy, prank, and challenge videos, quickly gained popularity. With over 6 million followers on TikTok, Aileen continues to entertain and share her journey with her high school sweetheart, Deven. She also hosts the podcast “When You Know, You Know,” offering insights on dating, relationships, and love. In this interview with Miami Living, Aileen discusses relationships, her future plans, and her travel dreams in Miami. Miami Living: How did you and Deven first meet, and what led to the beginning of your relationship? Aileen Christine: Deven and I met when we were sixteen, which feels like such a long time but at the same time, it doesn’t. He was friends with my cousins, and I had seen him around a couple of times, but we weren’t on a speaking basis because we weren’t that close yet. When my cousin had her debut, which is a traditional coming-of-age party when you’re Filipino and turning eighteen, she had invited Deven to be her lead partner in the cotillion. With each cotillion practice, we grew closer and closer, eventually leading us to become best friends. After months of chasing, he finally asked me to be his girlfriend and here we are twelve years later! Miami Living: What motivated you to start creating content on social media, and when did you begin? Aileen Christine: I’ve always been interested in media. When I was younger, my dad loved to watch movies, and my mom loved to take photos so when social media first came around years ago, I kind of took those things my parents had taught me to love and ran with it. I took outfit photos, funny videos, vlogs, singing videos - basically whatever I enjoyed, I would film. At first, I was just posting to my friends and family on Facebook, then on Instagram, and then years and years later, when COVID hit, I finally decided to try out TikTok and start posting on there. I started off posting a couple of lip-syncing and outfit videos but didn’t go viral until I posted a video about my boyfriend and me, which went viral overnight. I have been doing it ever since. Miami Living: After gaining a substantial following, in what ways did your relationship and future plans evolve? Aileen Christine: I think what’s perfect with Deven and I is that we never make any solidified plans for the future. We’re very much a go-with-the-flow kind of couple, so even though we don’t know what’s coming in the future, we’re always ready to work it out as long as we’re together. In terms of our relationship changing, I always say we’re lucky to have had years to build such strong groundwork to work on because we always prioritize one another over anything else. It’s definitely given us more opportunities that we’re beyond grateful for and allows us to do it together too, which is a dream. Miami Living: Reflecting on spending your 20s with your high school sweetheart, what were some challenges you faced and how did you overcome them? Aileen Christine: Our biggest challenge was definitely communication at that time. I think when you’re in your twenties, you are just starting to figure yourself out, and it’s a lot of changes and emotions happening at once. Throughout our twenties, we did a lot of self-reflection and realized that there was a lot of trauma from our childhoods that we needed to mend in order for us to grow as individuals. This usually causes a lot of emotion and stress, which then leads to accidentally taking it out on someone close to you. Even though our