TikTok's "Steak Girl" : Engaged w/ a baby ft Kaydee Church
August 19, 2026
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5 min readWhen Katie Church found out she was pregnant at 20, she didn't tell her boyfriend Tyson first. She called a friend 40 minutes away, who drove over and let her cry for hours. The fear wasn't about the baby—it was about what people would think of a 20-year-old having a baby before marriage. "I just didn't feel at that time like being a mom is something I've always dreamt of," she says. "I also didn't want the child to be the reason we get married." That tension—between wanting the life she was building and feeling she hadn't earned it in the right order—runs through the entire conversation.
The origin story: from anonymous "Stephanie" to steak girl
Katie started her TikTok channel in secret. She blocked everyone she knew, used a fake name ("Stephanie"), and told Tyson he wasn't allowed to watch her videos until she hit 10,000 followers. She hit that milestone within the same week. The steak videos weren't planned—she was just talking to her phone one day with a steak in front of her, noticed that content performed, and kept doing it. The carnivore diet itself was a last resort for acne she'd struggled with since high school. "I had tried so many different things," she says. "Once I started it, I think all my acne was gone in like two weeks." She doesn't eat carnivore anymore, but the videos stuck, and so did the nickname. For the first year and a half, strangers didn't call
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:29) **Brother's Fury & The Origin of "Steak Girl"** - Tyson describes how Katie's brother reacted to their relationship, and Katie explains how a carnivore diet for acne led to her viral steak-eating videos.
- 2 (12:20) **Hacked & Scammed Out of $12,000** - Katie reveals how a phishing scam for TikTok verification drained her creator fund earnings while they were on a trip.
- 3 (18:13) **The Shock of an Unexpected Pregnancy at 20** - Katie describes finding out she was pregnant alone in her apartment, her initial fear, and the emotional conversation with Tyson.
- 4 (31:43) **Grandma Blackmails the News** - Katie's sharp-eyed grandma forces the pregnancy secret out of her and then nearly spills it to her mom.
- 5 (37:33) **Engagement, a Lost Ring, and a Dream-Found Ring** - Tyson proposed two months into the pregnancy, but Katie lost the ring for four months before finding it in a bizarre way.
- 6 (47:56) **Online Hate vs. Real-Life Support** - Katie contrasts the fear she had about judgment with the reality that only strangers on the internet were harsh.
- 7 (50:36) **A Terrifying NICU Experience After a Fast Birth** - Katie's water broke with a sneeze, the birth was quick, but Maple was immediately taken to the NICU for breathing issues.
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