When blonde, blue-eyed Jamie Perkins married South Sudanese-Australian model Nikki Thot, their union seemed like a modern fairytale. Together, they welcomed two beautiful daughters and built an online empire\u2014but behind the scenes, their relationship was far more complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The couple\u2019s story began in 2009 on MySpace. Nikki, then 19, was a rising model signed with IMG in New York, while Jamie, 25, was a cinematographer just breaking into music video production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In March 2010, they tied the knot. Their first daughter, Ava, was born in January 2016, followed by Zoe in March 2018. They also had a dog named Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon, they launched a YouTube channel, and their following exploded. \u201cWe literally fell into it. It was never a planned thing,\u201d Jamie once told Daily Mail Australia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjamieperkinsfilms%2Fphotos%2Fa.408821185914496%2F790830297713581%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=false&width=500<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamie\u2019s proposal to Nikki became their big breakthrough. Wanting to create something unforgettable, he arranged for a proposal video to play on the big screen at Melbourne\u2019s Federation Square. Nikki watched in awe as Jamie appeared on screen, while a friend filmed her reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They uploaded the video to YouTube, and it quickly went viral\u2014racking up 4.6 million views. Their wedding video performed even better, with eight million views. Suddenly, Jamie and Nikki were social media stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But as Jamie pointed out, \u201cPeople assume vloggers are sharing everything, but we keep a lot of our life to ourselves. We\u2019re just having fun, and it\u2019ll be great to look back in 10\u201320 years and see what we were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BAChMR8wex-\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&v=14&wp=720&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&rp=%2Fnews%2Fnikki-thot-jamie-perkins-kids-divorce%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A859.6000000238419%7D<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nikki was born in Khartoum, Sudan, before her family moved to Victoria, Australia, in 1994. Growing up in Moorabbin, Melbourne, she was rarely made to feel different because of her dark skin\u2014except by some relatives who pointed out she was darker than her mother.Read More Below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamie and Nikki\u2019s Love Story: From Fairytale Romance to Painful Divorce When blonde, blue-eyed Jamie Perkins married South Sudanese-Australian model Nikki Thot, their union seemed like a modern fairytale. Together, they welcomed two beautiful...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\n\n\nNikki\u2019s Childhood and Early Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n