‘Looksmaxing’ Influencer Clavicular Hits on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Amid Split News: ‘I Can Fix Her’

Minutes after news broke that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fiancé Riley Roberts had allegedly split, looksmaxing influencer Clavicular decided it was time for him to shoot his shot with the democratic congresswoman.

“I can fix her,” Clavicular (real name: Braden Eric Peters) wrote via X on Tuesday, August 11, along with a repost of the news about AOC’s breakup.

Clav’s response came just weeks after Ocasio-Cortez, 36, had been asked how she felt about the social media influencer by TMZ.

“To me, it’s about less himself as a person. I think it’s about what leads young men to go down these kinds of rabbit holes,” she replied. “I think as a woman when we’ve been teenagers, we’re constantly being told that our bodies are not good enough and that you’re either too big or too small or too tall or, you know, everyone’s trying to nip this and tuck that, and it’s all because of the messages that we’re told about our worth.”

The politician added that it was “bad enough” that women are subjected to that kind of criticism and she didn’t want to see that “extended to young men, either.”

Clavicular, 20, gained notoriety on social media by embracing the viral “looksmaxing” trend, which encourages people to improve their appearance through beauty routines, fitness, skincare and more. He also claimed extreme methods like striking his own jaw with a hammer in a practice known as “bonesmashing” could improve a person’s appearance.

As Globe previously reported, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck‘s Chief Washington Correspondent, claimed in an X post on Tuesday, August 11, that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts had called off their engagement, though some X users argued that the couple had been spotted together recently.