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“The Valley\u201d star Brittany Cartwright is back on her feet after undergoing an extensive \u201cmommy makeover\u201d surgery\u2014and she has now revealed that her road to recovery started with some very difficult and painful steps inside her Los Angeles home.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old Bravolebrity went under the knife in early October for a series of procedures that had her \u201cfeeling stronger (and lighter)” within days, and that saw her proudly showing off her recovery progress in a series of bandaged post-op selfies taken inside her bathroom.<\/p>\n
In her most recent update, shared three weeks after her surgeries, Cartwright admitted to feeling “a little sore and swollen,” but noted that she was getting better each and every day.<\/p>\n
Yet, speaking to Realtor.com\u00ae as part of her partnership with Clorox, the mother of one, who hails from Kentucky, revealed that the first few days after the operation weren’t filled with quite so much positivity as she grappled with the physical toll of undergoing such a serious procedure.<\/p>\n
The reality TV star praised her Bravo co-stars Zack Wickham and Kristen Doute for being on-hand to help her navigate her home after she found herself unable to make it to her bedroom alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Valley\u201d star Brittany Cartwright is back on her feet after undergoing a \u201cmommy makeover\u201d surgery.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright<\/em><\/p>\n The 36-year-old Bravo celebrity went under the knife in early October and recovered at her Los Angeles home.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n “Going up the stairs the first day was not easy, but Zack and Kristen were on both sides and, like, lifted me up the stairs, and we made it up there,\u201d Cartwright revealed. \u201cLuckily, I have such a support team.\u201d<\/p>\n Beyond having two best friends\u2014and co-stars\u2014by her side to help her home from the hospital, Cartwright credited the familiarity of her personal bedroom for putting her at ease during the recovery process.<\/p>\n \u201cI love my room,\u201d she says. \u201cMy bedroom is amazing. I’m very grateful for it. It just felt good to be able to, like, recover in my own space.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though I had to be helped out of the bed to go to the bathroom and everything else for the first couple days, it was just great to be able to do it in my bedroom where I feel so comfortable and [in] the space that I love.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Spending all that time recuperating inside her room got Cartwright thinking about changes she might want to make in the space once she\u2019s fully recovered.<\/p>\n \u201cI love the way my room looks, but I keep wondering if I should do a statement wallpaper,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m even thinking [about] my bathroom that’s connected, my en suite that’s connected. Like, because we have a separate room for the restroom area, I kind of want to put up a very colorful, vibrant wallpaper in there.\u201d<\/p>\n Cartwright already has a color in mind for the future upgrade that fits with the bathroom\u2019s existing black and white palette.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really into emerald green right now because I love plants,\u201d she added. \u201cI really want to incorporate that because I love keeping everything white and neutral and clean, but I think the pops of emerald green [are] beautiful, so it\u2019s something I’m thinking of.\u201d<\/p>\n Cartwright is living in the home she once shared with ex-husband Jax Taylor, and made some decor changes following their split.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright Cartwright lives with her 4-year-old son, Cruz, inside the L.A. home that she describes as “white and neutral and clean.”Instagram\/Cruz Cauchi<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Cartwright has a cat and three dogs who also call her modern farmhouse-style abode home.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright This wouldn\u2019t be the first time Cartwright has edited her home\u2019s aesthetic. When she split from Jax Taylor, with whom she shares 4-year-old son Cruz Cauchi, Cartwright cleared out the place of any nods to their five-year marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI’ve changed out anything that had our names,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI\u2019ve even got, like, a bourbon barrel top because I’m from Kentucky\u2014I used to have one that said ‘Jax and Brittany,’ and now it says ‘Cruz and Brittany.’ I had everything changed out.”<\/p>\n Even her backyard was not immune to the makeover, Cartwright explained. \u201cI changed out my landscaping. I added a lot more roses and, like, really pretty girly things to make it my own.”<\/p>\n While Cartwright has moved several times during her and Taylor\u2019s ongoing divorce, she is now back in their former marital home, where she continues to make it her own as she starts a new chapter in her personal life.<\/p>\n \u201cI still have my house that was on \u2018The Valley\u2019 for so long, but now it’s mine,\u201d Cartwright clarified. \u201cI own it. It is mine, let’s make that clear. I get asked that all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n While fans of the show might still recognize the \u201cmodern farmhouse vibe\u201d of her home, Cartwright continues to make modifications to her residence that support her health goals and life as a single mom.<\/p>\n \u201cI changed out my gym and made it a very pretty girly gym,\u201d she said. \u201cI still want it to be a gym because as soon as I heal, I’m going back into the gym and really want to focus on my health because after you have a mommy makeover, it’s very, very motivating.<\/p>\n \u201cMy son, Cruz, he has a playroom downstairs and I changed it into a sensory room. I bought a trampoline, I got the swings that hang from the ceiling, and different things that really mean a lot to him. Those are some of the things that I have done.\u201d<\/p>\n Cartwright likes to keep a clean home, and says she is constantly cleaning up messes created by Cruz and her pets.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright As a Clorox partner, Cartwright regularly incorporates the cleaning brand’s new Crisp Lemon-scented disinfecting wipes into her personal cleaning routine.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Cartwright teamed up with fellow Bravo celebrity Heather Dubrow for the new Clorox campaign.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright Though Cruz has a dedicated play space, Cartwright admitted she spends a lot of time picking up after him throughout the house, so her collaboration with Clorox and the release of its new Crisp Lemon-scented disinfecting wipes couldn\u2019t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n \u201cI got a zoo,\u201d she shared. \u201cI have three dogs and a cat and a son, who is only 4 years old. So, you know, I have messes and spills all the time.<\/p>\n \u201cCruz sometimes spills his yogurt smoothies in the mornings or his orange juice, which is always very sticky if you don’t clean them right away. So I always use the Clorox disinfecting wipes for that,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then [my puppy] Dolly is new. She’s only 5 months old right now. She’s finally potty-trained, but she wasn’t for a long time. So with my animals, I’ve used the wipes a lot to clean up that, and disinfect that, and make sure my house was clean. The Clorox disinfecting wipes are very much a hack because they help you clean and disinfect at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n Cartwright teamed up with fellow Bravo personality Heather Dubrow, star of \u201cThe Real Housewives of Orange County,\u201d for the Clorox campaign, which has them testing out the new gentler scent in a kitchen that mimics Cartwright\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a set, but it looked a lot like my house,\u201d Cartwright explained. \u201cIt was a commercial, of course, but it was amazing to work with her and, you know, it was in the valley\u2014It was actually a house in the valley, so that was great.”<\/p>\n Yet, even though the commercial was filmed on a set, the scene isn\u2019t far from Cartwright\u2019s real life, as she considers herself to be \u201ckind of a neat freak\u201d who doesn\u2019t allow messes to last long.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing I do messy is, like, if I come home from a vacation or a trip, I don’t unpack my suitcase for a very long time,\u201d she confessed. \u201cBut other than that, I clean up messes right away. I’m not going to let my son walk around with sticky feet and sticky fingers and, you know, countertops and all that stuff. Like, it needs to be wiped down immediately, so I’m very much that type of person.<\/p>\n \u201cThe scent matters to me,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m very much a clean person, and I always just want my house to smell great. So that’s why I love this brand so much. I have always used Clorox disinfecting wipes, like, all the time in my real life.\u201d<\/p>\n The care Cartwright uses to clean and maintain her home extends to how she decorates it as well. While most of the interior is \u201ca lot of white walls\u201d and \u201cvery neutral colors,\u201d she\u2019s chosen to accessorize the space with sentimental pictures that keep her connected to her family in Winchester, KY.<\/p>\n Cartwright keeps photos of her family’s Kentucky farm on display inside her L.A. home.Instagram\/Brittany Cartwright While Cartwright is open to moving back home in the future, for now, she’s committed to riding out the peaks and valleys of life in Southern California.Brittany Cartwright \u201cI have a lot of photos from my farm back in Kentucky to bring that in to the house and everything,\u201d she shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have photos of my Pawpaw’s old tractor that he used to use that’s just out in the field with wildflowers growing around it.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a photo of my barn in Kentucky, which was my Pawpaw\u2019s barn,\u201d she said about the barn that was featured on \u201cVanderpump Rules: Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky.” \u201cHe passed away 10 years ago, like, right [when] I moved to L.A., so I have a huge photo of the barn blown up.\u201d<\/p>\n The photographs of her family\u2019s farm are even more valuable since two of the barns are no longer standing.<\/p>\n \u201c[One] was torn down in a big storm not that long ago, and the other barn that my Pawpaw had was in a fire recently, so those photos are so amazing to me. Those are the most important photos that I have,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hay just caught on fire,\u201d she added of the most recent disaster. \u201cWe have no idea exactly how it happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom was at church and had to come home and it was a whole thing, but we are trying to rebuild. All the animals made it and everybody’s safe and, you know, that’s what’s most important at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n As Cartwright keeps tabs on her hometown from her abode in Southern California, she\u2019s not ruling out a move back to the Bluegrass State in the future. But in the meantime, she\u2019s committed to riding out the peaks and valleys of life in L.A.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just kind of seeing where life takes me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt’s going all over the place. Like, I never thought that I would be where I am right now. I never thought that me and Jax would be divorced and separated and all that stuff, but I feel like as long as I can support my son, this is where I need to be right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI love Kentucky. I love visiting, I don’t know if I want to live there right now. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t move home later in life, but I’m just waiting to see where life takes me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n General Hospital adds emotional depth to Michael and Jacinda\u2019s storyline as their lives start to overlap in meaningful ways.<\/p>\n There are moments on General Hospital when you can almost hear the writers grin through the script \u2014 the little sideways turns where a story that should\u2019ve been a one-off complication suddenly finds a pulse. Michael and Jacinda fall right into that pocket. On paper, they\u2019re a transactional mess: he pays her to cover an alibi, she\u2019s already knee-deep in Port Charles chaos after helping Nina and Portia dose Drew with ketamine. Nothing about that setup screams romance. Yet here we are, watching them circle each other like two people who didn\u2019t expect to share a frame and can\u2019t quite walk away from it.<\/p>\n Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n If Michael (Rory Gibson) and Jacinda\u2019s (Paige Herschell) dynamic feels familiar, that\u2019s because the story is leaning into a\u00a0Pretty Woman<\/em> twist \u2013 the glossy fantasy of two damaged people stumbling into something they didn\u2019t expect. Romantically, Michael\u2019s been through the wringer. Many of his past girlfriends met tragic endings. His most recent disaster was when his wife, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), cheated on him with his slimy uncle, Drew (Cameron Mathison).<\/p>\n Michael has built this rhythm where he pours himself into being the responsible one \u2014 the father, the businessman, the moral line-drawer \u2014 but behind all that clean discipline sits this exhausted heart that keeps choosing women who make his life harder. The man is a magnet for chaos that\u2019s wearing lip gloss. (Find out what Gibson thinks about their surprising chemistry.)<\/p>\n Jacinda is chaos in a slightly different key. She\u2019s sharp, defensive, and quicker to pivot than anyone gives her credit for, but she\u2019s also surviving. That\u2019s the thing that feels real about her. She\u2019s not a mystery princess waiting for the right man to buy her freedom. She\u2019s someone who\u2019s learned to read a room faster than most people can blink, and right now, Michael is the room she\u2019s trying to decode.\u00a0<\/p>\n And that\u2019s where the\u00a0Pretty Woman<\/em> shadow starts to stretch a little longer. Jacinda isn\u2019t walking the streets of Hollywood Boulevard, but her past isn\u2019t some soft-focus footnote either \u2014 she was a sex worker trying to stay afloat in a city that chews people up faster than it forgives them. Now, she\u2019s sitting behind Nina\u2019s desk with an actual paycheck, a job that doesn\u2019t require survival math, and the one person who opened that door for her happens to be Michael.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a rescue so much as a pivot, the kind of quiet turning point where a woman who\u2019s only ever been used starts to wonder what it feels like to be trusted. And Michael, for all his polished edges and Quartermaine armor, seems almost startled by how naturally he stepped into that role. The Pretty Woman vibe isn\u2019t in the romance \u2014 not yet \u2014 but in the way power shifts when someone finally gets the chance to choose who they want to be next. In Port Charles terms, that\u2019s practically a love story in slow motion.<\/p>\n If GH leans into it, the Pretty Woman parallel won\u2019t be about Michael rescuing Jacinda. It\u2019ll be about two people who\u2019ve both been dinged up by life, realizing they might function better together than apart. Not a fairy tale, not a makeover montage \u2014 just two broken rhythms finding an off-beat that matches.<\/p>\n And in Port Charles, that\u2019s sometimes enough to start something real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The Valley\u201d star Brittany Cartwright is back on her feet after undergoing an extensive \u201cmommy makeover\u201d surgery\u2014and she has now revealed that her road to recovery started with some very difficult and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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