Gina Kirschenheiter confronted hardships with Shannon Beador throughout filming on the currently-airing seventeenth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
In a brand new interview, Gina opened up about what triggered her points with Shannon and defined why she was dodging Heather Dubrow at instances. She additionally denied she used Ozempic to drop a few pounds and reacted to Tamra Judge‘s return to the present.
“I kind of always have been Team Tamra,” Gina admitted on the June 28 episode of Access Hollywood‘s Housewives Nightcap. “She brings that thing and she brings it hard and she certainly brought it this season.”
But Gina, who was thrilled about Tamra’s comeback, doesn’t solely love Tamra for what she brings to the sequence. She additionally loves that despite the fact that her co-star can get a “little unruly and a little crazy” at instances, she responds nicely to communication.
“You can be like, ‘Now you’ve crossed the line with me. I’m gonna push you back past that line.’ [And] she just gets over it. She doesn’t hold grudges,” Gina defined. “She’s just like, ‘I get it. I crossed the line. I’m sorry.’ And then we all move on.’”
“I’ve always been cool with Tamra. She’s always been supportive of me and she makes it easier,” she added.
In addition to the brand new season of RHOC, Gina has additionally launched into one other enterprise: Her new podcast, Orange County, which she claims is “more positive” than different Real Housewives podcasts.
“I love the drama and everything that I’m part of, but it is nice and a little bit refreshing for me for this to be a more pure, positive lane,” she famous.
While claims of Ozempic have been plaguing members of the Housewives franchise for months, with some denying their use of the diabetes treatment and others admitting to it, Gina stated that on the subject of her weight reduction, she didn’t use Ozempic.
“I’m not on Ozempic and I’m not judging anybody who is,” she acknowledged. “If you wanna put a needle in your body every week and feel like crap all the time, you deserve to be skinny. I don’t wanna feel crappy.”
As for what did immediate her to slim down, Gina stated she give up ingesting a 12 months and a half in the past.
“It was just a lifestyle change for me and it was destress and it was coming out of COVID,” she defined. “I go up and down and I’m normal and I’m healthy. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being on Ozempic. I just think that it’s sort of important to be transparent, especially if you have a platform.”
“I don’t wanna put a message out there like, ‘I just work out and eat vegetables all day and this is how I look like this,’ or the opposite,” Gina continued. “My life is what it is. I don’t work out enough. I certainly don’t drink enough water … Also, I’m proud of that so don’t take that from me. I made a healthy lifestyle change and I was rewarded physically for that.”
Fans have loads to sit up for on this season of RHOC, together with two forged journeys, which Gina described as “fun” earlier than explaining why this 12 months’s forged has a significantly better dynamic than seasons prior.
“I think they were really fun and amazing. It was cool. It was a really great season,” she revealed. “I really enjoyed it. The last few years I understand maybe the casting is a little ughhh. But if nothing else, now with everybody back, all the women have history, we’ve known each other for six plus years. We genuinely know each other. We genuinely have friendships and connections and that makes for genuine entertainment and drama.”
In latest seasons, followers have watched Gina type a bond with Heather. And whereas their bond stands agency at this time, Gina admitted to going via rising pains along with her castmate when requested if she was “dodging” her all through the season.
“To a certain extent, yes,” she confessed. “And it’s nothing against Heather. It’s just sometimes when we wrap a season or filming, I need a little decompression. I need some space and sometimes it’s like, Heather’s so nice and she loves to include me and invite me to things, and so I instinctively will sometimes be like, ‘Yes, thank you, I’ll come to that.’ And then [sometimes] I’m like, more real, so when push comes to shove, it’s like, ‘I just don’t really feel like going to that.’”
Gina went on to say that she had rather a lot happening final summer season along with her children and to notice that she and Heather have “different lifestyles.”
“Also, it’s like, ‘Thanks a lot, Heather. You started this season just trucking me under the bus here,’” Gina went on. “But I do actually love her and … I really did hurt her feelings … And I did feel bad. I just should’ve given her a little more attention. There were a couple of texts that got a little buried and did bail on like, a lunch, so I get it.”
Regarding her drama with Shannon, Gina stated that whereas she’s identified Shannon for “a really long time,” sustaining a relationship along with her is “so hard sometimes.”
“I have boundaries and Shannon crossed some boundaries with me this season and it’s tough because although I think we tried to work through them and we still do, I’m still a little upset,” she shared. “But I haven’t seen it too, so I’m kinda in this place where until I see it and I see some of these things that I think you said or I heard or whatever, I don’t really 100 percent know how I fully feel.”
Gina additionally weighed in on Shannon’s feud with Tamra, which performed out within the early episodes of season 17.
“Even though I think Tamra’s delivery is rough, I do think that there’s some truth to what she’s saying,” Gina revealed. “And Shanon’s really good at pushing you to that place where … you kinda look like the one who’s wrong … But there is some truth there.”
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