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Vicki Gunvalson’s daughter Briana Culberson opened up about her time on the Real Housewives of Orange County, addressed the notorious “family van” scene, and revealed why she stopped filming.
Eighteen years in the past, viewers met Briana as she ready for promenade evening – earlier than her mother defined that she will be able to’t have intercourse. In a later episode, followers witnessed Vicki screaming on the cellphone as a result of a household van picked her up earlier than a cruise.
During an interview, Briana addressed the early historical past of actuality TV when RHOC started.
“Reality TV was just starting to become kind of exciting, or something that people were talking about, so it was like a whole new world,” mentioned Briana, in an interview with BravoTV.com.
“I didn’t, like, want to be on TV,” she mentioned. “I didn’t want to be recognizable or anything. I think I’m too simple for that. My mom, on the other hand, just absolutely loved it. Had to do it … It was a family decision.”
But Briana didn’t understand what it will entail.
“I had no idea what I was doing. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” mentioned the star. “I became a woman on TV, and that was very unexpected.”
“I’m glad the show started when I was 18, because it would have been a lot different if I was on the show younger and social media was a factor,” Briana added. “I can’t imagine social media as a young teenager to begin with, but add being on television, and that would have been so much more stressful. So I think I came in at a good time … It’s definitely cool to have my years of 18 to 30 documented on TV.”
She talked about one scene specifically: the well-known “van” scene.
“The family van obviously is hilarious, because that is my whole life with my mom,” defined Briana. “That family van moment wasn’t like, ‘Oh, remember that one time Mom acted really crazy and was yelling at the guy on the phone?’ No, that’s my whole life, even to this day. She doesn’t like something at a restaurant, everybody knows about it.”
“So it’s funny to me because that’s such a big moment to so many people because they think that was so outrageous, that was so hilarious,” she added. “To me, that was my whole childhood. So I like that people got to see that little piece of my mom.”
Though Briana appreciates these previous seasons, she doesn’t but need her youngsters to see it.
“My kids are getting older. They’re 10, 9, and then 2 and a half, and 1, but my 10- and 9-year-olds don’t know really anything about the show,” she mentioned. “[People] recognize them, or another mom will say, ‘Oh, your mom’s on that show,’ so they get curious, and they’ve asked me to watch some episodes.”
However, she let the older youngsters watch the collection premiere – or a minimum of a part of it.
“[At one point in the episode] I was getting my hair done and my mom was telling me, ‘Don’t have sex tonight,’” recalled Briana. When the scene popped up, she determined to not let her youngsters maintain watching. “I’m like fumbling for the remote like, ‘OK! Let’s go swimming or something!’”
“I could not remember that that was on the episode,” she laughed. “So I was just like, ‘Oh, I’ll just show them the first one.’ Of course, my kids are making fun of me. They’re like, ‘You look weird.’ I’m like, ‘I was 18.’”
Apparently, her youngsters claimed their grandma Vicki “looks different” now, as a result of she, in keeping with Briana, “had a lot of plastic surgery.”
“So they were quite confused,” mentioned Briana. “I’m not ashamed of it or embarrassed of [the show]. It’s just not something we talk about day to day.”
She additionally revealed why she determined to cease filming.
“We had to move so much with the military and everything. In the first couple years of their lives, [my husband Ryan] was deployed, and I had to take a leave of absence from work because he was gone for eight months at a time,” mentioned the star. “So we were all over the place, and in my head, I was like, ‘I really don’t want to add the stress of trying to teach toddlers to be on their absolute best behavior because cameras are in the house… They were already going through so much.”
She believes she “made the right decision” to depart the cameras behind – “at least for now.”
“[But] I never completely emotionally close the door to reality TV,” Briana defined. “I just think that I just wanted to take the time and just kind of step away and have a quieter life for my kids.”
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