Even if you’ve followed Jazz Jennings since she started sharing her life as a kid years ago, there may be things you don’t know about her and her family. And for the most part, that’s the way they intend to keep it.
They’re open about most aspects of their lives on I Am Jazz, but still prefer to keep some things private. One thing that fans are curious about, though, is how much Jazz and her family are worth.
Fans want to know how Jazz makes money and if she makes a killing from her reality TV show. Jazz has been in the public eye for years as a transgender woman and advocate for others in the LGBTQ community. Although she admits on I Am Jazz that her activism took a backseat as she struggled with her mental health, she’s determined to get her “mojo back,” as she says in the Dec. 7, 2021 episode.
But does she make money as an activist in addition to being a reality TV star?
JAZZ JENNINGS Profile Summary
Jazz Jennings is the star of I Am Jazz on TLC and she uses the show as a platform for her LGBTQ activism.
And once she appears at an event and speaks out about her life as a transgender woman and her experiences, it all seems to come back to her.
That, too, earns Jazz money even if it’s not an official “job.”
Jazz was accepted by the university in 2019, but in October of that year she decided to take time off before becoming a coed. “After careful consideration I have decided to take a break before starting at Harvard. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it is the right one for me,” she told fans in an Instagram post.
When Jazz was accepted to Harvard in Season 6 of I Am Jazz, she was ready for the challenge. But in the time between filming Season 6 and getting back to TV with Season 7, Jazz dealt with some mental health struggles. She was diagnosed with anxiety and depression at a young age.
As she explains on the show, she needed to take a break from everything to get back on track mentally. That meant taking a leave of absence from Harvard before she could even get started.
The new season of I Am Jazz will also follow Jennings in her native Florida as she embraces some firsts (a bikini wax, for starters) as well as various dates as she pushes herself beyond her comfort zone.
“I’m about to go on my first date in four years,” Jazz reveals in the preview.
And, as her social activities grow, so does her anxiety, which Jazz says sometimes just “takes over.”
Still, the college sophomore spends a lot of quality time with her family — which she tells people she “cherishes” — as her grandparents can even be seen participating in what appears to be a session of goat yoga!
Jazz Jennings has opened up about how she handles the hate directed at her as a transgender woman.
In PEOPLE’s exclusive First Look at the upcoming season of TLC’s I Am Jazz, the 22-year-old Harvard student faces a death threat while attending school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“I get death threats almost on a daily basis,” Jennings tells PEOPLE ahead of the Jan. 24 premiere. “People will comment on my photos saying, ‘Burn in hell. Kill yourself. You’re in abomination.'”
She continues, “But when someone sends a threat to where you live and they know your location, it’s a really, really scary feeling knowing that someone is kind of stalking you a little bit and they have these ill intentions.”
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