Bravo's it couple may have been broken up for nearly six months by now, but that doesn't mean that they're done talking about the breakup just yet.
Paige DeSorbo recently opened up about her decision to break things off with Southern Charm star Craig Conover and responded to the fact that people who have been watching their relationship show cracks on Summer House and Southern Charm have said that she should have ended things with him sooner than she did.
To see why Paige DeSorbo said breaking up with Craig Conover is the "hardest thing" she had ever done and whether or not she would consider joining the RHONY cast, kreep reading!
Paige DeSorbo explains why she didn't break up with Craig Conover sooner
While speaking to Glamour, Paige DeSorbo opened up about the fact that although she had originally wanted to settle down and start a family with Craig Conover, her priorities began to shift and she started to want to wait until she was older before she had kids.
Fans that have been watching Summer House and Southern Charm will already know that this mismatched set of priorities put a lot of strain on Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover's relationship, but Paige DeSorbo said that the shift in her own personal priorities was something that she only recently learned about herself.
In her interview with Glamour, Paige DeSorbo said that she had previously felt like not having a child by age 30 would make her a "failure," but as her influencer career started to pick up and really take off, she started to realize that it wasn't so bad to focus on herself and make her career a priority. She acknowledges in the interview that people can sometimes react negatively to women who choose to have children when they're older, but it hasn't deterred Paige DeSorbo from focusing on herself for now.
"I didn't know that I was going to want to go fully in on my career. I didn't realize how much I loved being fully independent. It's not selfish to say, 'I'm picking myself.' It's about what feels right in your gut, what makes you happy and where you feel most aligned," she said in her interview with the publication.
Fans that have been watching Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover's relationship begin to break down on the most recent seasons of Summer House and Southern Charm have had some questions about why it took so long for the two of them to realize their priorities didn't line up.
In the most recent season of each of their respective shows, it's been hard to ignore the fact that Paige DeSorbo seems increasingly distant and sometimes even bordering on disinterested in Craig Conover, but she says that it wasn't so easy to see what was really going on when she was living through the experience.
"I've been getting a lot of flack with people saying, 'Oh, Paige should have ended her relationship earlier.' But I was living through it. I was going through feelings in real time, and I'm sure subconsciously what was keeping me from doing it was knowing that no matter what, in a breakup, the girl is going to get torn apart. I knew that going into it. So yeah, I was nervous," Paige DeSorbo told Glamour about why she was concerned about officially ending things with her then-boyfriend.
Does Paige DeSorbo want to join The Real Housewives of New York City cast?
An insider recently told Us Weekly that Bravo is in the process of casting season 16 of The Real Housewives of New York City. Season 15 ended on a sour note with a major split between Brynn Whitfield and the rest of the cast, plus fans (and RHONY OGs) haven't exactly been holding back about being disappointed with the rebooted cast.
This means that the fact that Bravo is reportedly looking at the cast and making some major decisions about who to keep, who to fire, and who to potentially bring in to the cast next season. Could Paige DeSorbo be considered for the cast?
Andy Cohen previously discussed the idea of adding a Summer House cast member to RHONY and said that he had brought up either Lindsay Hubbard or Paige DeSorbo in a production meeting, but he didn't share whether or not there had been any real talk about one of them joining the show.
According to the Bravo producer, he couldn't see Paige DeSorbo moving on to RHONY but felt like Lindsay Hubbard could be ready to move on from Summer House to become a Housewife instead. Meanwhile, Paige DeSorbo says that she definitely feels like her time on Summer House will eventually come to an end, but isn't sure about RHONY.
"With the lifestyle of Summer House specifically, I'm probably not fitting into the original show idea anymore. Whenever I see a comment that's like, 'She's a little too old to be on this,' I'm like, Yeah, I kind of am," Paige DeSorbo told Glamour and said that her time on Summer House definitely has an eventual "end date."
But, that doesn't mean that she's ready to join RHONY. Although she told Glamour she'd "never say never," she told the publication that she didn't think she would be a great fit for the franchise. She said, "Housewives is such an established franchise, I think it would be very hard for me to assimilate."