Rachel Zoe Says She Shares the ‘Actuality of My Life’ on RHOBH (Unique)

Rachel Zoe is prepared for her actuality TV return.

Greater than a decade after her Bravo present The Rachel Zoe Challenge ended, the celeb stylist-turned-fashion mogul, 54, is again on the community for season 15 of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, premiering Dec. 4.

“I really feel totally different on each stage,” Zoe tells ipromiseyoumedia of her life now. “I am very sincere about the place I’m and what I am coping with on [RHOBH]. I feel my objective is de facto to share the fact of my life. And everybody’s going by way of stuff, proper?”

The brand new season of RHOBH will see Zoe navigating life post-split from her husband of 26 years Rodger Berman. She filed for divorce in July, 10 months after they first introduced their separation.

“I’m actually attempting to assist as many ladies as potential,” says Zoe. “I imply, in all probability not less than 30% of the ladies in my life are going by way of a separation or a divorce. The query I stored getting requested and nonetheless get requested is: ‘Why am I so okay popping out of a relationship that basically transcended my complete grownup life?’ It is as a result of I am impartial — financially, professionally and socially. I feel that there is not sufficient emphasis placed on the significance of that.”

Zoe says having her “personal issues to get up for day by day” made the “choice to depart” her marriage simpler.

“It was like, okay, subsequent,” she says. “It doesn’t matter what life throws at you, you could have to have the ability to rise up by yourself. You simply must.”

Zoe and Berman, 57, first met in 1991, whereas they have been each college students at George Washington College. They bought married in 1998 and share two sons: Skyler, 14, and Kaius, 11.

The boys have been a serious purpose why Zoe determined to step away from actuality TV with the tip of The Rachel Zoe Challenge in 2013.

“I used to be being chased down alleyways by paparazzi with child strollers, or holding my youngsters in my arms and bodily operating from paps,” she says. “I keep in mind a turning level when Sky took one of many paparazzi’s cameras out of their arms and turned it on him. He was like 3 or 4, and I used to be like, ‘No, this is not what I would like for them.’”

Earlier than signing on for RHOBH, she known as a household assembly together with her boys.

“I would not have agreed to do the present with out my youngsters,” she says. “I imply, they’re those that informed me to do it. I informed them what it will imply and that Mommy must be gone much more and that they might be on it. I informed them I would be speaking fairly overtly and actually about issues. They have been like, ‘Mother, it is your reality. It is best to communicate freely and actually. Do not conceal issues from us.'”

Zoe says she’s candid about her break up from Berman on RHOBH and the way they grew to become totally different individuals over time.

“I used to be executed. I used to be actually executed,” she says. “I do not endure from guilt of not having given it all the pieces I might have. I do not endure from that, and I do not endure from feeling prefer it was a failed marriage. Having been married for 26 years, I’d say that three-quarters of that was wonderful.”

Zoe says she “in the end did what’s greatest for the youngsters.”

“I feel that having two dad and mom that love them is extra essential than having two dad and mom collectively that perhaps should not be collectively anymore,” she says.

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 — which, together with Zoe, additionally stars Sutton Stracke, Bozoma Saint John, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards and Amanda Frances — will premiere Dec. 4 on Bravo, with episodes accessible to stream the following day on Peacock.