Catherine Paiz Reveals 5-Years Of Non-Intimacy With Austin McBroom Before Split

Catherine Paiz has pulled back the curtain on one of the most intimate details of her former marriage to Austin McBroom, and the revelations are heartbreaking and highly personal. During a candid, emotional chat featured on the May 28 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the influencer and one-time co-star of the ACE Family YouTube channel shared that she and Austin were not sexually active for the better part of five years leading up to their breakup.

"It was actually more like five years of not being intimate with him," Catherine confessed, attributing her choice to a devastating discovery. "Sex and intimacy are very, very sacred to me. Then I found out there was cheating, I checked out and said, 'My body is a temple and I refuse to allow anybody to come near my temple if he cannot be honest and truthful and loyal.'"

The confession was stunning for fans who were used to watching the ACE Family's seemingly idyllic life play out daily on YouTube. Catherine and Austin were known as one of the internet's power couples and documented their lives, love, and growing family to millions of subscribers. But a relationship fell apart in silence behind curated family vlogs and brand deals. Catherine revealed she discovered Austin cheated while she was three months pregnant with their youngest child, Steel. At the time, as a mother trying to balance the demands of motherhood and postpartum healing and the emotional weight of betrayal, she said these were her experiences.

"I was going through a lot postpartum," she remembered. "our body changes, breastfeeding, and you're taking care of multiple children." Beyond the external pressures and duties, what was most painful was the personal violation she felt upon discovering Austin's betrayal. "I found out he was cheating on me, and that was it," she said.

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The 34-year-old also added that their celibacy isn't her only decision. Austin also didn't attempt to hook up with Catherine, something she now considers another red flag. "Now, I know how that's not normal," she said. "At the time, I thought we were going through a lot. There were a lot of bad things happening around us. We have children, we're overworking, we're tired, we're stressed. We're anxious."

The emotional and physical distance between Jazmin and Darion only grew, helping them decide to file for divorce in January after more than seven years together. The two, who share three children, are now concentrating on co-parenting and making new lives for themselves apart from the spotlight to which they used to be accustomed.

Catherine's revealing comments provide a rare insight behind the public veneer of pain. Her decision to finally lift the lid after years of not getting any not only takes the image of sex between them out of the realm of ridiculous rumor but also dismantles the myriad impossible expectations we have of public coupledom.

With the dust settling on their very public separation, Catherine's voice is that of a woman who is, quite literally, performing her own salvation. It is the sound of a woman taking back her power, peace, confidence, and sense of self-worth. Her story is a universal reminder that behind every carefully concocted post, a world of silent pain may lurk and that healing starts the moment you opt for truth over show.