Paige Lorenze Is Now Paige Paul & Talks Marriage, Babies, & Business

She married a tennis star, switched her last name overnight, and now she’s got a store on Nantucket. Paige Paul (yes, formerly Paige Lorenze) has entered a whole new chapter, and she got refreshingly honest about all of it. 

If you’ve watched Paige Lorenze grow up online, you already know she rarely does anything halfway. She loves what she does, and she’s proud of her career as a creator because she’s stayed consistent, no matter what she was going through.

On this episode of The Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, she sat down for a wide-ranging, genuinely funny “conversation about married life, her plans for a big family, and the business she’s building, all in her own words.

Everything below comes straight from what Paige shared on the episode. Grab a drink (she’d approve) and watch the full conversation here while we walk you through the highlights.

Who Is Paige Paul (Formerly Paige Lorenze)?

Paige is a longtime content creator who’s been building an online life since her New York days, and she’s not shy about the receipts. Everything’s on the internet, she says: all the evolutions of Paige, every hair color, getting lip filler and dissolving lip filler, all of it still findable if you scroll far enough.

That’s the whole point of her appeal. Fans have watched every chapter.

These days, she’s the founder of the Dairy Boy brand, newly married to tennis player Tommy Paul, and very aware that a lot of people are just meeting her now. She points out that her wedding was in Vogue, and newer followers are seeing a more curated version of her Instagram.

She’s honest that the polished feed isn’t a true representation of all the sides of her, and that people love to put you in a box when she’s always been a lot of different things at once. That tension, the curated aesthetic versus the girl who orders a white wine at noon and then happily switches to beer, runs through the whole episode.

Paige’s Wedding and Why She Took Tommy’s Last Name

The name change was the first thing on the table, and Paige had zero hesitation about it. Taking Tommy’s last name was never a question for her.

She says she loves him, it’s an honor to have his last name, and she wants to share a last name with her children. She describes herself as traditional in that way and thinks marriage is beautiful. However, the switch itself happened faster than anyone expected. 

She and her team have a great relationship with Meta and Instagram, so she’d asked them to switch the handle over on the 14th, but she didn’t know what time they’d do it. They actually changed it on the morning of the wedding, which made people assume she was at a computer “updating her handle instead of doing wedding stuff.”

Not everyone in her orbit was on board at first. She says almost everyone told her to think about it for a second, since her name is her brand, and a lot of people were curious about the decision.

Then there was the internet’s take, which she said she found genuinely funny. A TikTok pointed out that Paige Paul made someone less insecure about changing their own last name, because she went “from pasta to potatoes.”

Since her maiden name is Italian and Paul is very American, she laughed that it kind of is giving pastas and potatoes, and said she’ll happily take the potato.

Why Paige Skipped a Bridal Shower

Paige had a whole point of view on the modern wedding rollout, and it’s a relatable one. She’s all in on baby showers, but the pre-wedding gauntlet is where she drew the line. 

She thinks baby showers are amazing, partly because it’s your mom’s friends, family, grandparents, older and younger people, all celebrating a new life, and a way to get gifts for things that are expensive for moms.

The bridal shower, though, felt like one event too many. 

When she runs the full lineup—engagement, an engagement party, a bridal shower, a bachelorette, a rehearsal dinner, then the wedding—her verdict is that we’ve collectively lost our minds.

A lot of it came down to not wanting to overload her guests. She thinks weddings now inconvenience people so much and cost so much money to attend. That’s actually why she chose her venue, so people could Uber and sleep in their own beds, since most of her people are on the East Coast or in New York.

Paige on Wanting a Big Family

If the name change hinted at where her head’s at, the family talk made it obvious. Paige is looking forward to kids, and she wants a lot of them. She also shares that Tommy wanted to have kids even before they got married.

When pressed on a number, she didn’t flinch. She says she wants “a lot of kids, like five or six.”

The wish is rooted in how she grew up and what she felt was missing. One of three siblings herself, she’s always loved big families, saying that visiting friends with big families felt comforting and beautiful.

There’s a thoughtful layer to it, too. 

She feels her career has put her in a position to afford that many kids, and thinks it would be selfish to have that many if you couldn’t give every child the same opportunity and the same life.

To be clear, this is her forward-looking hope, not a timeline. Amanda Hirsch jokingly proposed they check in after her first pregnancy and first round of terrible twos before they revisit the five-or-six number, and Paige was game for the deal.

Building the Dairy Boy Brand and Her Nantucket Store

Here’s the part Paige is proudest of, and it’s easy to see why. Dairy Boy didn’t start as a business plan. It started as a bit. 

Back when almond milk was the peak of influencer fitness, Paige was the girl posting that she drinks milk from cows, and the only real pushback she got was about the dairy industry, which she says she understands. That contrarian little inside joke turned into merch, then into a full brand. 

She explains that Dairy Boy was serious but unserious, an inside joke with her community, and it started because people literally wanted a hat with “Dairy Boy” on it. She already had the mood board, ran it through an account called Shop Lorenze, and used to post her Shopify sales as they came in.

Additionally, she jokes that she’s more humble now than when she’d post that her computer was crashing from the orders, though she admits it was good marketing. Today, she’s clear-eyed about her strengths. 

She feels she’s doing what she’s supposed to be doing, and that she’s good at making things look good, branding and all of it. The store on Nantucket is the emotional center of the whole thing. Nantucket isn’t a random luxury flex for her, it’s home turf. 

She grew up summering there her whole life, with generations of family who had a house on the island. So opening the store there closed a loop she’d been carrying for years. For her, the store is a childhood dream she’s accomplishing, and when her grandparents sold their house, she made herself a promise to work hard enough to find and earn her way back.

That personal history is exactly why the store means so much. 

Life as a Tennis WAG

Plenty of people would bristle at being called a “WAG.” Paige reclaims it entirely, and her reasoning is one of the sharper moments in the episode. 

She doesn’t hate the word “WAG,” which stands for wives and girlfriends. Her whole issue is with why the term carries a sting at all. She thinks the only reason words like “influencer” or “WAG” get a negative connotation is because they’re attached to women.

Her fix? A genuinely funny thought experiment. She points out you don’t hear people saying “hags,” even though there are plenty of husbands of successful female professional athletes.

On the note of being a “WAG,” Paige says she shows up expecting nothing, never going into a match thinking Tommy will win or lose, and treats him pretty much the same either way. She wants to be his rock, and doesn’t think it’s her place to tell him he could have played differently.

She’s seen how other tennis girlfriends and wives get so emotionally invested that when their partner loses, they feel like they lose, and she thinks that’s unhealthy. It’s an emotionally taxing sport to watch this closely, and she’s protective of her own equilibrium.

Then, of course, there’s the viral trophy photo, which she finds hilarious. After Tommy won at Queens, a photo and video of her gripping his neck went viral, with everyone saying she was clawing his neck and making the whole thing about her.

Her response? 

She basically said “yeah, have you seen how hot Tommy is?” And joked he’s lucky she wasn’t choking him out.She’s since decided she has to show that side on social media, because it’s just “not that serious.”

Paige on Social Media and Staying Real

The most relatable thread of the episode is Paige’s honest reckoning with what social media has become, and why she guards more of herself now. 

She feels the internet has changed a lot: things get taken out of context, there’s no nuance anymore, and people are viewed as one-dimensional. That makes her want to share less, especially because an opinion you hold today might change in six months, and the internet leaves no room for that.

She’s also candid about her “micro-insecurities,” the tiny, specific hang-ups every creator secretly has. She copped to a micro-insecurity around “AMA” questions, getting messages from people assuming she “asked herself these things.”

However, she also noted something equally important: it’s the kind of overthinking that makes her feel human rather than untouchable. What she really wants is to let the silly, self-deprecating side show more. 

She admits her curated aesthetic has made her seem so serious that people assume she can’t make fun of herself or get silly, when she absolutely does. She thinks of Instagram as a digital magazine where she’s the editor, loving to post beautiful things.

The challenge is finding room for the jokes alongside the polish, and it’s clearly something she’s actively working out.

Listen to Paige Paul’s Full Episode

This barely scratches the surface. The full conversation gets into her tacky-in-the-best-way bachelorette, her ski-racing past, and why opening that Nantucket store was her biggest pinch-me moment. 

Watch the entire episode with Paige Paul on YouTube, and dig into more of Dear Media’s roster of shows while you’re at it.