When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Inside Brittany’s Haunted Halloween & Mommy Makeover Update

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

It’s a spooky season special! Brittany celebrates Halloween by sharing her family’s costume plans, sensory-friendly trick-or-treating hacks for Cruz, and details on her over-the-top Victorian vampire masquerade party. She also opens up about life after her mommy makeover — from recovery and mom guilt to fan questions about surgery, healing, and confidence. Plus, Brittany takes listeners back to her Kentucky roots with ghost stories from her real-life haunted childhood home. 👻🎃Please support the show by checking out our sponsors!Jones Road: Ready to quit for good? Go to quitwithjones.com/REALITY to start your personalized quitting journey and get $10 off with code REALITYCornbread Hemp: Listeners can save 30% on their first order! Just head to CornbreadHemp.com/REALITY and use code REALITY at checkoutQuince: Go to Quince.com/realityhits for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns.Hiya Health: Receive 50% off your first order when you go to hiyahealth.com/REALITYHITSApretude: Bring your A-game and talk to your doctor. Learn more at APRETUDE.com or call 1-888-240-0340.Little Spoon: Simplify your kids' mealtimes. Go to littlespoon.com/REALITY and enter our code REALITY at checkout to get 50% OFF your first Little Spoon order.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Halloween decorations. And I'm just a busy girl right now, so I've got a lot going on. But it feels weird because normally my house has been decorated with ghosts and skeletons and bats and everything else for at least a month by now. So it feels like Halloween is creeping on us. And here in LA, it has been like 90 degrees every single day. So it just doesn't really feel like Halloween yet. but I'm hoping whenever we get ready later for trick-or-treating, I am going to take Cruzey out trick-or-treating and going to meet up with Jason and Janet and Little Cam, and we're going to go all out.

A lot of people have been asking what we're doing for Halloween and what Cruz is dressing up as. This year we're going to be skeletons. I have to find something that Cruz will wear. You know, last year I tried to do, well, actually last year we were The Incredibles. The year before that we were Jurassic Park And I like did up his wagon

And made it look like the gates at Jurassic Park And Jacks was wearing this big inflatable T-Rex costume I was like a worker like a ranger from the park And Cruz was a little T-Rex And he would not wear the head He almost didn't want to wear the hair Because you know he has sensory issues So last year we did the Incredibles

And his costume had little muscles built into the arms And he didn't really love that he put it on he like didn't love it in the beginning but then he loved it after that so it just took a little bit longer so this year i really wanted to make sure i had something that was sensory acceptable for him so we're doing skeletons and instead of like the hair spray or the hair gel that i would put in his hair or my hair we're going to have white hair so i think it's going to be so cute and of course not only did i get skeleton costumes for me and crews i also got skeleton costumes for all three of my dogs and my cat so kingsley monroe And Lola will all be skeletons as well. And I'm just excited to take some photos and let Cruz have a wonderful time. I don't know if you guys watched on my Instagram story, but I had shared some of, like, hacks that I had done for trick-or-treat this year because last year, taking him around as The Incredibles, I kind of felt like, you know, some people almost assumed like kids are being rude or, you know, for not saying trick-or-treat or saying thank you and not realizing that he was nonverbal. so I posted a little hack that I did this year and I took these little buttons. Some people call them switches and they come with a box of four and I can reuse them all year

round for different things. So this year I put a sticker on one that says trick or treat, a sticker that says happy Halloween and a sticker that says thank you. And I recorded, you can record up to 30 seconds on them. I recorded again, happy Halloween, thank you and tricker treat on them. And then I took Velcro and I attached. them to his little skeleton bag so that he has that and whenever we go up to houses he can push the button and it'll say trick or treat for him and thank you for him just so that he can enjoy it and

it's also a learning moment for him as well he's doing amazing i know that his speech is coming along but you know he still is nonverbal so we're working towards it and i just want to make sure that he has fun and gets to enjoy everything just like everybody else because he is amazing and i just want him to have the best day ever so that was a little hack that i did and we're going to try it out tonight and see how that goes. I'm also going to take his stroller just to make it easier, like, walking around in between houses and everything, because also I'm still recovering, so I can't be lifting up a lot. I still have two more weeks before I'm allowed to lift over 15 pounds.

So having the stroller will really help going, like, from house to house, and, you know, we're in L.A., so either the whole street does it or maybe one house here and there. So it'll be a lot of walking around. So just got to make sure we're comfortable. And I got these really cute lights. off of Amazon that light up. They're basically necklaces, but I'm going to like string them together and put them all around his stroller. So they'll be like different colored little skeletons lit up. So I'm really excited. I can't wait to see how he does. And I just hope that

he has the best time. And if he's not having the best time, then we will come home. And I will do some kind of like Halloween cookies or something. We'll watch some cute little Halloween movies. I'm just going to make the day very special for him. And I cannot wait. Also, I started setting up today. Of course, I'm doing a Halloween party, which I cannot wait. We're having a huge Halloween party tomorrow night for my friends. And we started setting up today. It's like my favorite theme ever.

It's going to be Victorian vampire masquerade. And I just think it is so freaking cool. I can't wait for everybody to see my outfit. I don't want to give too much away because we'll be posting all about it. But started setting up in my backyard today. I'm expecting a bunch of my friends. I have so many cool little detail. like blood bags for people to drink out of you know because we're being vampires so you know me

I'm all about a theme and I am going to you know rev up that theme as much as I possibly can I'm trying to make my pool look like it's blood with different lights and stuff inside of it and I just think it's going to be a really neat one kind of like interview with a vampire or you know that old timey like old timey look where they wear like the big dresses and the hair and the I just think it's going to be such a fun theme and I can't wait to see how everybody comes dressed and I can't wait for everybody to see my costume because I've been planning this party for like two months and I'm so, so, so excited. It's been, you know, I'm still healing for my surgery.

I am almost four and a half weeks post off now. A lot of questions have been asking how I'm feeling. I am feeling so much better. I'm not even taking Tylenol or anything anymore for pain. I'm doing amazing. I still have tightness in like my sides a little bit and that's completely normal. it's going to take my doctors told me it'll take at least like three months for even my swelling to go down so even though after the six weeks i can start doing more i can start working out again i can lift over 15 pounds and do all all that kind of stuff um i you know i still will be swollen for a couple months and that's completely normal but even with the swelling i look amazing i'm so happy with my decision it's been a journey but i'm finally like up and at them and i'm trying to rest in my bed as much as I can but I'm you know I'm a busy mom I'm you know Cruz comes first I'm

always trying to do things with him and I'm also working every single day so I still have to get up and go do things and I'm very blessed that I've been able to do that stuff but sometimes it can be challenging so anytime that I have time off I'm normally like laying in my bed and trying to rest and get my body prepared because I really want this to you know heal perfectly trying to do everything right you know i'm trying to eat healthy and every time i take a shower you're doing like um the sporn and bandages and things like that but my scars are starting to heal up my cuts are starting to heal up and everything is just looking a lot better so i am feeling good but with this being halloween i have talked every now and then about some of my old halloween stories and i think we

can talk about a little bit more Halloween episode spooky season so So as some of you guys know, if you've listened to my podcast, I grew up in a haunted house. And if you don't believe in ghost, just listen to the story because it's a crazy story. I moved into that house whenever I was probably in the third or fourth grade, third or fourth grade. And I lived there for, you know, until I was about 16. So, you know, a big part of my life growing up was in this haunted house. I would get off the school bus sometimes and I would sit outside because I would. would be scared to go into this house by myself.

Nothing mean ever happened. Like, I don't think it was a demonic presence, but it was definitely a woman. I've talked about how I woke up and I saw a woman standing at the end of the hallway. And I will put my hand on, you know, I swear all my life that I saw this woman in the hallway. And the crazy thing was is I went to school and I was in a theater arts class and it was Halloween and we were all telling each other ghost stories. So I'm from a small town, Winchester, Kentucky. Shut out, Winchester.

It's not that small, but it's not big either. So everybody knows everybody. And I was in theater arts class, and I was talking about my haunted house. And one of the guys in my class, he said his grandfather lives across the street from me, which is true. His grandfather lives across the street for me. And he said that his grandfather said that he would see a woman on the balcony sometimes. This house was like a four-story, like old Victorian house. It was built, you know, it's been around for,

years and years and years and years and years that had like a dumb waiter and everything in it so it's been around for a long time and um he said that on that we had a big old front balcony on the top and he said that he would see a woman sometimes so that i just like sent shivers down my spine and kind of validated me and made me feel like i wasn't crazy but aside for me seeing her just different things would happen throughout the house all the time it was one of those houses where you would walk up and down the stairs then you could hear somebody behind you but it was also a old house so you didn't really know if you were hearing something or if you were freaking yourself out but then there was that feeling just on the back of your neck that would just you know the hair on the back of your neck was just stand up constantly the water would turn on the TVs would change one night it sounded like a bowling ball was going down the stairs so my stepdad had to come and grab me out of bed and put me in the bed with my mom and it was just such a scary time but you know different things would happen. All of our friends and families started to know and hear our stories. So everybody started being like, okay, this is the haunted house. So I remember my sister had a friend come over

and she went to go open the door and the door just opened for her and let her in and she would not come in the house. It was scary stuff like that that just happened all the time. And my brother, majority of our bedrooms were upstairs, like me, my mom, my sister, our bedrooms were upstairs. My brother's bedroom was on the middle floor right off of the kitchen. And that room, for some reason seemed like the scariest room in the house it always had a weird feeling in there it just it just was always creepy and in there that's whenever the water would turn on all the time and it wasn't just like it would turn on because it was an old house you would see the handles turn you would hear people walking around different things like that and before we moved into that

house my stepdad lived there all alone and it was a big house for one guy to live in by himself and after living there and we all started feeling like there was ghosts and stuff there he finally told us that he would never go up to the top level because he felt like he could always hear people walking around and then of course when we move in we go right into the top level and you know my mom she's just like me so she starts redoing all the wallpaper doing you know redoing all the cabinets and changing everything up and in any Halloween movie you watch

any scary movie you watch any haunted TV shows you watch anytime somebody starts messing with the decor and changing the house that's whenever you get a lot of activity. So, yeah, I grew up like that. Everybody knew it was haunted. No one else saw the woman but me, and I was such a little kid that I don't know if everybody believed me. Like, we all knew it was haunted and we all had our own experiences. Like, my mom was doing laundry one time, and the laundry basket completely moved from where she had it.

And she swears upon everything that it completely moved. And we all just have, like, our own different stories that come along with it. my stepdad's father passed away while we lived in that house and this house had two big open windows in the front so you could see right into the front two living rooms and you know he drove by and he saw his father sitting on the couch and he runs inside the house and he said that the couch was still warm and he could smell his father's clone like just stuff like that happened to us all the time so it was never anything like negative energy or anything like that it just seemed like something was there and it was there before we were there and we were just kind of living in its in its

space but nothing was mean you know I remember one time because I was scared to be in a room by myself my mom was in the bathtub so I was just like I would go into there while she was like taking a shower in the bath because I didn't want to be by myself and I was wrapping myself around the curtains and all of a sudden the water just turns on and I wouldn't even move because I was so scared So my mom had to, like, get out, turn off the water, just different stuff like that all the time. Hair dryer's turning on. Like I said, the TVs would change and turn on in the middle of the night. It was scary.

It was scary. And I always had to leave my door open. But whenever I did that, that's whenever I saw the woman. So even now, as an adult, I have to have a TV on and I had to have, like, a fan going or some kind of sound because I'm scared I'll wake up and see something. Like, I'd rather have the room lit up whenever I wake up. Like, it's crazy. And then after I moved out of there, finally got into my own houses, I just felt like something was like attached to me or something for a little bit. And I know that sounds crazy, but, you know, I was living in Richmond, Kentucky, going to E.K.U.

And I lived with my friend Lindy, who was flying up tomorrow to come to a Halloween party. I can't wait to see her. But she and I lived in this apartment. And we had only lived there for two weeks. And I had a lot of people call it sleep paralysis, whatever, but I've never had it before in my life. never had it after and I woke up in the middle of night and I swear I felt something crawling into the bed with me like knee knee hand hand the whole bed was moving my body was moving and I could not do anything and then all of a sudden I was able to sit up and start screaming

and we were so terrified that we broke our lease as poor little hooter girls that didn't have very much money when you have to break a lease you're breaking you know you're losing your first month rent your last month writ and your deposit so we were that scared that we moved out of that and our dogs would be acting funny we moved into another place after that and it was it was a bigger place it was like a townhouse with like three levels so we were downstairs fixing it fixing up the basement to get it ready for a party or something that we were going to have and we heard people walking around upstairs so we started calling all of our friends who were like who was here and both of our dogs were in the kitchen and they were going crazy barking at something we called

everybody nobody was here we finally got the courage to walk around upstairs nobody was there sometimes because back in the day you know everybody would get ready together and like whenever you would get ready with your friends you'd be pre-drinking and getting ready before you even get to the club you wouldn't even go to the club to like 11 or 12 and part the best part about getting ready was just having pre-drinks with your friends and like dancing and you know all that stuff so sometimes I'd be like working late at hooters and I would come home and my friends would already be like in my room doing their makeup or getting ready or like going through outfits. to borrow and different things like that and I come home and they're freaked out and they said

that it sounded like all the cabinets like opened and shut a bunch of times so there was a couple things that happened along in my life that just kept continuing to happen for a while but i will say since i've lived in l.a nothing's happened i have my big old house here by myself i'm not scared you know me and crews are here i never feel like any kind of presence or anything like that but i definitely believe in ghosts and i know so many other people that have their own ghost stories. And I could go on and on and on with different things that happened in that house. But since it's Halloween, I just wanted to touch on it a little bit. Vapes and pouches keep you hooked in a cycle of nicotine spikes, crashes, and constant cravings.

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Learn more at Apertood.com or call 1-888-240-0-340. But yeah, that was scary, and I definitely believe it was wild. Let's go into some of the questions that you guys have asked me. Thank you all so much for writing in. and don't think I'm crazy. If you don't believe in ghosts, you don't believe in ghosts. But I'll tell you what, I saw a woman with my own eyes, and it was wild. All right, let's go into some questions.

This is from Cindy Thea. Next travel destinations for you and cruise. I am going to take Cruz home right after Thanksgiving. So him and I are going to go to Kentucky to visit all the family. I miss them so much. I've just been so busy, so I haven't been able to go home. And I will have healed enough where I'll be able to lift him up and do with different things like that so that's going to be the best time so we're going to go to

kentucky and visit for a week or so and see all my family and friends because i miss them so that's definitely our next travel destination and then you know i'll probably plan something fun for us to do as well i kind of want to take him back to san diego and do the safari park again because cruise would absolutely love that elephants are his favorite animals he loves animals in general so i think he would love the safari park so it might just be like a little mommy son date that we do but definitely excited to go home to kentucky and see my friends um this is from anastasia favorite Halloween candy oh my gosh i was such a sweet too so i love so much Halloween candy i love risi cups i think they're amazing i like hot tamales a lot i know people some people

don't but i love hot tamales um i love snickers i love twicks i'm i'm like a chocolate girl I also love Sour Patch Kids. All that stuff's great. I think the least favorite Halloween candy is probably like a Mikanike or candy corn is okay. It's not my favorite. I don't love it. I don't hate it. I think Mika Nikes are worse.

And those like wax candies that you just like chew on with, you know, they got really popular and they just have like a little bit of taste and then you'd throw out the wax. Like I don't really understand those. I used to eat them whenever I was little and play with them. but I don't get the hype about them now. This is from Through Dez's Eyes. I saw the bar change names. Are you still part owner? No, I have nothing to do with the bar anymore.

So I have no idea. I didn't even know that it changed names or anything like that. I just know that they took the Jackson's sign down a while ago. But no, I have nothing to do with that bar or any bar at the moment. Maybe I'll open something on my own down the road. But I am not involved whatsoever. Sniffs and positivity How is your healing going?

What scar gel will you be using? So as of right now, I am just using, you know, like antibiotic ointment or, you know, neosporne and stuff like that. And I, like, lather it on all my scars until I'm all the way healed. And then once I'm all the way closed up and healed, I'm going to see my doctor actually on Monday for another update. And I'm sure he'll start giving me different creams and stuff. And then eventually I'm going to go in and start doing.

in laser treatments, which will help me with the scars as well. But I'm loving my results. I'm healing up very nicely. So I'm very excited about that. This is from M-shell. How did Cruz handle you not being able to play as much during recovery? You look great. Well, thank you for saying I look great.

I'm still healing. It's got a ways to go. But I feel great and I definitely feel like I look a lot better. So I really appreciate that. You know, that's part of something I didn't really think was going to happen. like the mom guilt of not being able to play with him as much has been killing me. I'm feeling so much better now, so I'm not missing anything anymore. But the first week, you know, I'm in bed.

I wasn't able to move. So he would come up into the room and softly and gently give me a hug and kiss and bring me flowers and do really cute stuff like that. But I was just feeling so guilty. So I have a balcony off my back room. So anytime he's swimming, I was, and I was slowly starting to be able to move around. I would go outside and be like, cruzy, mommy's here. and he would wave at me from the pool and I would watch him swim and then as I started getting

better I started doing breakfast and you know nighttime routine and doing all that stuff but it's like he definitely knows that he can't jump on me and stuff right now so I cannot wait for this two more weeks to be up so I can like fully play with him again but it was something I was feeling very bad about I you know I our love language is definitely playing together kisses and hugs and you know just 24 seven he's a little boy so he's all about jumping around and climbing on everything so that was rough for me for the first two couple weeks but i am definitely doing better now so i'm able to play with him a lot more and i'm always outside with him i'm always you know every time we're eating i'm eating with him and i'm spending as much time with him as i possibly can whenever i'm not working so

i'm starting to feel better now but it was definitely hard in the beginning but he's been doing great he definitely knows that you know mommy has a boo-boo and he's just been very sweet and very gentle he's so sweet this is from iliana how bad is the pain from the mommy makeover one to 10 i want to get one well good luck if you want one i hope you get one i support whatever women want to do with their bodies it's your choice do what you want to do so hopefully you'll be able to get one one day um the first four days were awful like 10 for sure but you also have pain medication and stuff like that to help you so you know it is bad but it's obviously doable because I did it. And then after that, you just, you know, you just kind of get used to the pain in a way,

and you're just kind of getting better and better and better every day. Like I said, now, I'm four and a half weeks out, and I just kind of have, like, tightness in my sides. My scar for my tummy tuck doesn't hurt. My boobs never hurted. Like, my boobs never hurt at all. So, and I had a full-on, I took my old implants out. I put smaller ones in, and I got a lift, so I had a lot more done this time. But they have not hurt me since day one. So that's been great. um the tummy tuck was definitely the most painful in where i had the abdominal reconstruction so my whole stomach like i had to have people help me sit up and get out of bed and help me like sit down even to the bathroom and different things like that so that was really really really rough first

four days very very very rough but you slowly start getting better and better and better and better and i had to keep reminding myself this is just such a short time in my life like this pain is just you know a little blipp in time but my results will be forever and i'm so excited i think it's definitely worth it this is from carrie bode uh who was your doctor for the surgery okay so i did a whole podcast episode of all about my surgery so if i don't get to some of your questions that you guys wanted to know about the surgery go back a couple episodes and i say everything about the mommy makeover but i will call out my amazing doctors again it is dr john lakey and dr daniel um i'm sorry dr payman danielpour and they are the beverly hills plastic surgery

group so they're located right in the middle of Beverly Hills they are amazing surgeons and they did it together so I was under I was in surgery for probably five or six hours and they both worked on me together at the same time and again if you didn't know what what all happened I had abdominal reconstruction I had a tummy tuck I had my my breast implants taken out smaller ones putting in and a lift done and also had a lipo to help contour and shape around my front and my back so yes It was a process, but that's what the mommy makeover is. And I was so happy I did it. And Dr. Lakey and Dr. Daniel Pore did amazing.

And they have been amazing ever since. I can text them if I have any questions. They have just been incredible and they are very, very, very incredible and talented doctors. So they killed it. This is from L. Hemingway 514. What's your favorite childhood Halloween memory? Let's see. Golly, I had so many.

I was blessed with a great childhood. My dad was very, you know, involved in making things special. My mom as well, she always had the house all decorated. And I remember we had, like, this big night and shining armor in the house. And this was when I lived in the haunted house. And they always had, like, strobe lights on it. And I always had little Halloween parties for all my friends. I have home videos, like VHS recorded videos of Halloween parties at my house.

And I was definitely that kid that, like, had all the friends sitting around in a circle while I performed a dance or, like, sang a song, or did so. anything like that and then like me i would have one friend come up and we'd be like playing um grease so it'd be like sandy and danny or something like that we would do a whole performance or cats the broadway play and i would do like the whole performance in front of the circle i have videos of us at a Halloween party with me doing that i'm like what in the world was i doing but those were some of my favorite memories because they were so fun and my my family always made Halloween very special my dad always took us out trick-or-treating everybody all got decked out and back then Kentucky especially like trick-or-treating was amazing every single house every single house did

trick-or-treating and that kind of makes me sad about it now because not everyone does it I understand some people don't participate it's not you know their religious beliefs or different things like that but just growing up like remembering how special it was I mean we filled up pillow sacks of candy it was just so many awesome memories to make with my siblings you know I've got I've got three brothers and a sister and just having those like bonds and everything was just incredible. So it does make me sad that there's not as much houses that, you know, participate

in trick-or-treating, but those were just amazing memories that I have from growing up. And then every now and then you would get like a little boyfriend and you'd be like, can I go trick-or-treating with Chris? You know? And my brother would have to cope with us. We were just little. We weren't kissing or holding hands or nothing like that. But still, it's just

cute. So many memories. I love holidays. This is from Nolan Oles. Do you love the Nikki Minaj song Trend and can you do one please? Oh my gosh yes I'm seeing that everywhere I'm wondering if I should do one for my Halloween party tomorrow night like in my vampire or if it's going to be played out by then but everyone knows I love Nikki Minaj show that is a really cute one I'm just wondering now that it's been like going on for over a week

if I wait till tomorrow and don't post it until like the next day if it's going to be too late you know because it might be like too played out but we'll see maybe I'll do that I'll do something else. I need to step up my TikTok game. I don't ever get on TikTok. Instagram is where I do a majority of my stuff and threads and everything like that. But I really, I love the reels and stuff. I just need to get somebody to help me because I don't really know how to make all that.

So I've got to get better with that. But maybe I will. I do like that trend, though, because I love Nikki Minaj. That's my girl. This is from Kelly Rebaki. How long did it take until you were able to walk comfortably after the tummy tuck? comfortably at least a week and a half maybe two weeks because whenever I was able to start moving around I was you know still felt very like hunched over I didn't feel like I could stand

up straight for a while so I'd say after I'd say about two weeks and after was whenever I started being able to move even better like I said I'm getting better every day I'm for almost four and a half weeks post-op now and I'm still getting better and better but I'd say around two weeks is definitely whenever I was able to move around more. This is from Chelsea Tomp. How was getting your tubes out after surgery? I really want a mommy makeover, but I'm scared. So I was so worried about getting the tubes out, and the tubes are the drains.

I had those two little drains that were connected to my hips to help with the tummy tuck. They drain so that you don't have as much swelling, and it helps your swelling go faster, and it helps you heal faster. So I had the drains in for as long as I could. before I had to go to Mexico. I think I wore them for two weeks, which is really good. And I was so scared because I was hearing like, oh, gosh, having the drains taken out is so painful. Having them taken out is so painful.

So I went in there and I was already nervous as can be. But whenever I took them out, it really wasn't that bad. They are a lot longer than I expected. He just kind of like clipped a stitch with scissors and then goes breathe in, breathe out, breathe in. And then he pulled them out. And the tubes were just in my body a lot longer than I expected. So I was kind of like, how far was that in there? That was kind of like my main reaction.

But it wasn't painful. It was a little odd. It was a little stingy right whenever they first start to tug, but it was not bad at all. So if you're thinking about that, don't worry too much on that part because it was not bad for me. And a lot of people said it was going to be bad, but it was not bad for me at all. I was just shocked at how far in they were. um this is from kerry curtis after your mommy makeover do you have areas of numbness do you feel like the old you i still am healing i still have a ways to go so yes i still have areas of numbness around

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Like how they had that, what's it called Love Hotel on Bravo or something like that? Let me be the Bachelorette. I don't know, but I'm single as a Pringle, and I think something like that would be fun and out of my comfort zone. and I'm always down to try new things. Even if I didn't do great like I did on special forces, but still, I tried, okay? And it was an experience of a lifetime that I, you know, I'm glad that I got to experience. But, yeah, something like that, I feel like would be fun. So put me on Love Hotel, Bravo.

This is from Steve Graphics Artist. How is Kara and Tiffany in Kentucky doing? They are hot. Thanks. So Tiffany is my sister and Kara is my bestie from Kentucky. They are both doing fabulous. I'll get to see Kara again soon. I just went to Vegas recently and saw her.

And then I get to see my cissy whenever I go home and visit in November. So they're both doing amazing and both beautiful as can be. And I love them and miss them. This is funny. This is from Shannon Johnson 5297. Not a question. Just you need to change your Facebook profile pick. We went to see you sparkling print again.

Oh my God. I've had such an issue with Facebook. So right now my Facebook pick is still a photo of me, Jacks, and Cruz. I think from like his rookie of the year birthday party, if I'm correct, but I have not been able to log into Facebook in so long. And every time I get kicked out and every time like my PR or my manager or something has to reach out to Facebook and it's like what's happening and they have to this whole process to get me logged back in. So it's still connected to my Instagram. So everything that goes on my Facebook is still connected to my Instagram. So my stories and my Instagram posts

automatically go to my Facebook. But I cannot actually log in there and change my profile photo or my information or anything like that. So, yeah, I'll do that soon. I just haven't had the time recently. But yeah, definitely an old pick, and that makes me laugh because I know people probably look at that and I'm like, what is going on? It's just because I'm locked out, guys.

I promise I'll get to it soon. This is from Lily and Kenton. Are you dating anyone at the moment? Again, no, I am single. Spread it to the world. Tell your friends. Your girl is single. favorite makeup brand from Rebecca Kay

Right now I love Fenty Beauty by Rihanna That's like my favorite foundation for sure I still love like the luminous mascara Like the black tube the carbon black tube From L'Oreal that's my favorite mascara But Fenty Beauty is great Fenty Beauty also has my favorite lip gloss The heat lip gloss which is a little bit of plumping

But it doesn't hurt or anything It's just like a beautiful nudie pink color so yeah that's what i love this is from step groaning how was your new puppy she is amazing she's bigger than kingsley now i can't believe it i don't think she's going to get as big as cissy or monroe but she's bigger than kingsley she's doing amazing finally potty trained and all that she still has a lot of puppy energy but she is just so cute she has her own little look and i just she is the perfect addition to the family her and crews love each other so much and also dolly my new puppy and Lola my cat love each other like they are best friends out of all the animals

dolly and Lola are best friends I post videos on my stories a lot about of them playing together and stuff like Lola will be grooming her looking her and cleaning her and stuff it is so cute and they just chase each other around everywhere and play with each other and I think that dolly was great for Kingsley and Monroe as well because Kingsley just turned 10 on October 17th so happy birthday my little Kingsley he just turned 10 and Sissy is eight and cissy you know she's my she's my old girl with her pearls she just likes to lay around a lot so having dolly here they start playing with each other a lot and they're you know wrestling around and chasing each other and it's really like brought out a new side of them as well so i think that dolly has just

been a very great very wonderful addition to the family all right last question before we move on this is from corey's story when will your divorce be final you tell me there's a lot of stuff going on that I can't talk about at the moment, but hopefully within the next couple months, it keeps getting pushed back for reasons that are out of my control, but hopefully I'll have an update for you guys soon. All right, wait, one last question. This is from Sarah Zanville. When are you decorating for Christmas?

I love seeing how great you make your house look. Thank you. Like I kind of said earlier, I haven't been able to decorate for Halloween this year because of my mommy makeover, but I am getting so much better. So I am not missing on Christmas at all. I'm one of those people who wants to have everything decorated before Thanksgiving because I like to have a big friendsgiving at my house for all my friends to come over and celebrate because a lot of us don't have family in L.A.

You know, a lot of us are transplants. So I always like to do a big Thanksgiving here and I like for my Christmas decor to already be up. So I got about a week and a half left to where I can lift things, but I'm going to slowly start putting stuff up after my Halloween party is done. So I cannot wait. Stay tuned because Mrs. Claus is coming at you. All right, everybody. I love you. Thanks for listening to When Reality Hits. I hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween, be safe, trick-or-treating. Check all the candy in your kids' bags. I've been hearing

some crazy things out there, so make sure you're checking the candy and making sure bags aren't open, nothing looks suspect, throw anything away like that. Everybody, be safe, had the best time, and also have so much fun celebrating Halloween and partying this weekend. Just stay safe, enjoy, and I can't wait to see all the costumes online. And I can't wait to share my costumes with you guys soon as well. So make sure you're checking out on my Instagram and my stories at Brittany. I will see you next week. Thanks for turning into another episode of When Reality Hits.

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