All About Alix Earle’s Parents, Dad TJ, Mom Alisa and Stepmom Ashley

TikTok star Alix Earle’s blended family is featured on her new reality show, ‘Earle Meets World’

NEED TO KNOW

• Alix Earle’s parents are TJ Earle and Alisa Maniaci
• Alix was also raised by her stepmom, Ashley Earle (née Dupré)
• Their blended family is close and celebrates holidays together

Alix Earle and her blended family are at the center of her new Netflix reality series, Earle Meets World.

The TikTok star often shares glimpses of how her parents — dad Thomas “TJ” Earle, mom Alisa Maniaci and stepmom Ashley Earle (née Dupré) — work together to raise her and her younger siblings.

TJ and Alisa welcomed Alix and her younger sister Ashtin. In 2008, TJ and Alisa split amid his highly publicized affair with Ashley. Earlier that year, Ashley had been part of a famous scandal with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer that resulted in his resignation from office.

Alix shared that while her father’s affair was difficult for her when she was a child, her family has since moved on and remained close. TJ and Ashley got married in 2013 and have welcomed three children together.

“We definitely have a very modern family,” Alix told Elle in August 2023. “It’s normal for me to have my dad, my mom and my stepmom all going on the same trips.” She noted that she and Ashley are “super close, and we’ve gotten to such a good point.”

“Whatever’s happened in the past, we’ve all gotten past it as a family,” the social media star added.

Here’s everything to know about Alix Earle’s parents.

TJ owns a construction company in New Jersey

After receiving his degree in business administration from Lynn University, TJ took over the Earle family business in construction. According to his LinkedIn, he is “primarily responsible for the executive management of the asphalt and aggregates, environmental, and trucking business units.”

TJ’s company is based in Farmingdale, N.J., and Alix has frequently discussed growing up in the state. She’s posted TikToks attending local spots like Rook Coffee and D’Jais Oceanview Bar & Café.

Alisa is a stay-at-home mom who works with multiple charities

Alisa also received her bachelor’s degree from Lynn University where she studied marketing, per her LinkedIn. She has since focused on being a stay-at-home mom and raising her two daughters.

She is also passionate about working with multiple philanthropies, including the C.H.A.S.E for Life Foundation, which focuses on educating people about life-saving procedures in emergency situations, such as choking or drowning. According to her LinkedIn, she “is particularly dedicated to the issues of children’s safety and is deeply committed to advancing the C.H.A.S.E. cause.”

Alisa was diagnosed with breast cancer while Alix competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2025. She underwent surgery in January 2026, and Ashtin shared on Earle Meets World that Alisa is “in recovery” now.

She is in a relationship with sales executive Todd Galski. During season 1 of the show, he requested Alix’s permission to move in with her mom.

Ashley was involved in the 2008 Eliot Spitzer scandal

In March 2008, Ashley was at the center of a scandal after Spitzer was caught spending money on an escort service. Ashley, who was 23 at the time, turned out to be the escort hired through the service and became the subject of national scrutiny.

The scandal led to Spitzer’s resignation and his wife later divorcing him. That same year, Ashley was involved in an affair with TJ, drawing public attention to Alix’s family.

Both Ashley and TJ spoke about their affair in Earle Meets World. “I’m very disappointed that I didn’t handle myself better, as a person, as a man, and that I let so many people down to get to this point,” TJ said. “But I’m happy to be where I am today.”

Ashley added, “We had an affair, and it was not the right thing to do. It definitely wasn’t fair to Alisa. But then again, you can’t go back and say, ‘Well if this happened or that happened,’ we wouldn’t have what we have now — three amazing kids. I have two amazing step-kids, and I can’t go back and say, ‘What if things were different?’ ”

Alisa and TJ split when Alix was in second grade

When Alix was in elementary school, she came home to find paparazzi at her house after news broke that Ashley and TJ were having an affair, as she recalled during a September 2023 episode of Call Her Daddy.

The influencer described how her mother quickly ushered her and Ashtin out of the house, and they stayed at their cousin’s home for the next few days. A year later, her parents told her that they were separating.

However, the affair made school difficult for her as she entered middle school and her peers started bullying her — and some parents would even ban their children from spending time with Alix at her house, she said.

During a September 2024 episode of Alix’s podcast, Hot Mess, the Earle sisters said they initially disliked Ashley and pulled pranks on her, like filling her shoes with toothpaste and serving her a chocolate-covered garlic clove disguised as a chocolate-covered strawberry.

“We were little kids, and we didn’t wanna meet anyone. Like, I didn’t want my dad to ever be with anyone else ever,” Alix said. “These are things we laugh about now. Ashley’s like our sister.”

Her parents are close and often appear in her TikToks

Despite the struggles the family faced when Alix was a child, they are now close and often go out to dinner and celebrate holidays together. During her interview on Call Her Daddy, Alix shared how after her parents’ divorce, she felt like she didn’t have a “core” family, so she’s grateful for their closeness now.

“Now that my family is so well blended and they get along so well I get to do all these events in my life where it’s my mom, my dad, my little siblings and my stepmom,” she explained. “It’s a new feeling because it’s a different type of family to me but having my mom around with my dad, it’s just that feeling is the best feeling in the entire world.”

In September 2023, Alix shared a TikTok of her whole family getting together for a night out in New York City, where she posed with all three parents and her three youngest siblings. In the video, Alix shared behind-the-scenes footage of her mom pretending to take a shot and the whole family dancing together.

“Never a dull moment #earlegirls,” she captioned the video.

TJ and Ashley have three children together

In addition to Alix and Ashtin, TJ has three children with Ashley: Izabel Earle, Penelope Earle and Thomas James Earle II.

Alix is close with her younger siblings, and they often make cameos in her TikToks. She also regularly shares content from their family time together, which includes group vacations and outings to fairs. The three siblings all appeared in Earle Meets World.

Ashley has helped Alix deal with public criticism

Alix has previously discussed how Ashley has helped her work through her feelings when she gets overwhelmed by life in the public eye.

“One time I was overwhelmed about something of mine and I called my dad,” she told Elle. “He was like, ‘You should really talk to Ashley about this. She has dealt with this before, stuff in the media.’ It’s brought us closer because she’s able to guide me through it.”

As for the advice she received from Ashley? “Life goes on. Not everything is as crazy as it feels in the moment. People get past things.”

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