SOBER HOUSEWIFE –
March 31, 2026 – Kyle Richards has been in front of cameras since she was three years old—child actress, Halloween scream queen, Paris Hilton’s aunt, and now the longest-running housewife in Bravo history. She’s never been fired or taken a break, and according to her, never once called in sick—for fifteen straight seasons.
In this conversation on The Bossticks, she gets into what that actually costs you, why she and estranged husband Mauricio Umansky are still in a “gray area” after 30 years, how she raised four daughters who are somehow grounded despite all of it, and why she quit drinking (and has zero interest in going back).
“It was the timing. I had just lost my best friend to suicide and I couldn’t afford a day feeling depressed. I wanted to feel the best I could, physically. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll just not have alcohol, sugar, carbs for a couple of weeks, take a couple pounds off’—and all of a sudden I felt so much better and I looked so much better. Two weeks became a month, and one month became two, and I was like, ‘Why do I need to go back to that again? Wait, I can live my life, have fun, and never have that hang-xiety again.”
