Secret Service Agent’s daughter reveals dad’s wildest secrets (exclusively)

Growing up, Ashley Hicks Thought she had a pretty typical father.

Although he had a vehicle for work she was never allowed to come in. Even when he would take her family to the White House for annual Christmas parties. And yes, even when she would see him on the morning news in a black suit just one step behind the US president.

“It felt like it was a normal way to grow up,” Hicks says.

It wasn’t until she got older that she realized how unique her father’s profession that a secret service agent really was.

Mom to two recently received viral status after she started sharing stories from her father’s time in Secret Service on Tiktok in June. In one video – Who has taken up almost 2 million views – Hicks shared some of the security tips she has learned from her dad, like never sitting with her back to the door to a restaurant or holding a can of wasp spray under your bed in the event of an intruder.

In other videos, Hicks remembers how her ear -eyed father’s education in law enforcement meant that he could catch her when she was injured. For example, when she came back after a night of drinking as a teenager, even though she made her curfew, Hick’s dad said from all over the room: “You think rubber will mask what you have done?” She tells in one post.

She even sheds some light on the sleeping arrangements for members of Secret Service. The “weirdest” placed her father ever at work, she revealed in a videoWas at the USS Iwo Jima Assault Ship, on which Bush and his team landed when they visited New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

But Hicks did not start his account looking for Internet families, she tells People.

“To be completely honest, I’m in the thirties and I’m so illiterate on social media,” she says.

On the suggestion of a friend, Hicks decided to start posting stories about her upbringing on a Tiktok page – “Just for myself and my children to watch one day,” she says. “When I published my first story, I had maybe 13 followers.”

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But eventually her stories as the daughter of a secret service agent took speed. Millions began to flock to their side to get the inside of his family’s dinner with the president of the White House’s private residence, the wild souvenirs that her father took back from her international trips with the president and even the theory that Secret Service agents use fake weapons.

Long before she began her account, however, Hicks began to realize the unique with her father’s profession when she left Northern Virginia – where she says she was in a “bubble” by other families whose parents held positions at law enforcement authorities like the CIA and the FBI – and went to college.

“I was around people from all over the country, and I told them about myself – that my dad works for Secret Service,” recalls Hicks. “Everyone is like“ wait, what? ”

The most common question that Hicks received, tells People, is whether her father – who worked for 25 years during several presidential administrations – had a favorite president.

“The presidents deal with Secret Service agents really well,” she says. “I think he would say President George W. Bush, just because he spent the longest time as his special agent.”

And when she started meeting the man she was going to move on, he initially thought that Hicks had pictures of American presidents throughout her house because of her love for history – “but it was because my dad was in the picture with them,” she laughs. (She studied health science in college.)

When she started sharing more into her Tiktok account, says Hicks, it has been an unexpected benefit: it has allowed her to better get to know her father.

“He has been so narrow about his career and what he has done in his life and everything he has achieved,” says Hicks. “It has really given a special opportunity to get to know him and what he accomplished.”

Now, when she sees him, he will ask her what questions people have left on her account that he can help answer. And after Hicks has added a video, she sends it to him for a fact check to ensure that his story is produced as accurately as possible.

As a newcomer to the creation of content, Hicks has had to deal with temporary “middle comments” and the pressure to “not drop” the following as she has gathered. But, she says, she is stuck that it is only for fun – and that she has no plans or expectations of growing the account.

“When it gets more trouble than it’s worth, I will probably hang the hat and go away,” says Hicks. “But right now I love the opportunity to do something nice and go out of my comfort zone.”