Angelina Chapin

Angelina Chapin is a features writer at the Cut, where she reports deeply on gender, crime, and culture through stories that blend intimate narratives with systemic scrutiny. Her work uses relationships, online fame, celebrity, and technology to show how power and institutions shape women’s lives and public perception. She brings long experience in investigative reporting on criminal justice and immigration and has also written features for major international and culture publications.

Gender, Crime, and Power

Chapin regularly takes on criminal cases where women’s lives intersect with state violence and public controversy. In her coverage of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, she documents how Pike survived an execution attempt after two injections of pentobarbital and how officials then halted further action while ordering an independent review of the state’s execution protocol. She follows the Lindsay Clancy case from the perspective of trial-focused influencers, showing how a high-profile prosecution that ends in a mistrial leaves an audience still hungry for resolution and meaning. In another piece, she reports on the backlash after a public figure honored Chris Brown with a congressional award, tracing how fans question their support when institutions legitimize a celebrity with a history of violence. Her background includes reporting on Trump’s family separation policy from the border and interviewing sex-trafficking victims imprisoned in Texas, which reinforces her focus on how laws and bureaucracies bear down on individual women.

Relationships, Betrayal, and Online Fame

Relationships are a core strand of Chapin’s work, especially where intimacy collides with money, betrayal, and public audiences.

In “The $1.75 Million Betrayal,” she follows Akira Montague as a friend steals her husband and then turns the fallout into content for roughly 3 million followers, using that narrative to examine what happens when private implosion becomes monetized spectacle. In her feature on Emilie Kiser, she centers a woman asking whether she can “ever forgive” her husband, framing the story around the language of forgiveness and the emotional stakes of a marriage under intense scrutiny. She writes about Gen-Z women in “Call Her Mommy,” focusing on partners who pay for and effectively parent their boyfriends, and uses that dynamic to explore new forms of dependence and care work inside romantic relationships. A relationship column about “alpine divorce” considers women who no longer see the end of a hike as a trailhead but as the moment they reassess a partnership, turning a leisure activity into a metaphor for marital rupture.

In “When Your Husband Spends $300,000 on DraftKings,” she gathers four women whose lives are upended by sports gambling, showing how financial risk and addiction reshape trust and household stability. Even in lighter sex-diaries work like “The Man Who Pees on His Date,” she uses startling behavior to reveal underlying patterns in contemporary dating.

Body Image, Health, and Celebrity Culture

Chapin often uses health and body-image stories to interrogate how appearance standards bear down on women striving for status.

“The Secret ‘Ozempidemic’ on Sorority Row” follows college women desperate to join top sororities who turn to weight-loss drugs to improve their chances, framing the rush process as an arena where thinness and pharmaceutical intervention become tools for social advancement. In “The Era of Emaciation,” she examines how celebrities and influencers have become strikingly thin, arguing that the change is impossible to ignore and connecting it to broader anxieties about beauty and wellness culture.

Taken together, these features link fashion, prestige, and health to deeper inequities in how women’s bodies are judged and disciplined in both campus and entertainment environments.

Technology, AI, and Intimacy

Technology, and especially artificial intelligence, is another pillar of Chapin’s beat, treated as a force that reshapes relationships, therapy, and women’s work rather than a purely technical subject. “Is It Cheating If It’s AI?” looks at couples negotiating what counts as infidelity when one partner maintains a chatbot “sidepiece,” casting AI as a new third party in romantic life and mapping the boundaries that partners draw around digital intimacy. “The Couples Counselor in Your Pocket” reports on women using AI therapy tools to work through breakups and jealousy, asking what is lost when emotional processing is routed through apps instead of human clinicians. In “The Girlbossification of AI,” she documents figures like Reese Witherspoon, Mel Robbins, and Sheryl Sandberg urging women to adopt ChatGPT or be left behind, situating AI within motivational culture and contemporary expectations around productivity and self-branding.

Across these pieces, Chapin treats technology as infrastructure for intimacy and ambition, scrutinizing the ethics, commercialization, and emotional fallout of letting algorithms mediate private life.

Her current beat pulls together criminal justice, relationships, body politics, and digital culture, producing narrative-driven features that sit at the intersection of entertainment, news, and social issues.