Morgan Stewart Opens Up to Khloé Kardashian About Life After Reality TV

Morgan Stewart has never been one to sugarcoat things—whether she’s talking about fashion disasters, motherhood, or the realities of life after reality TV. During her appearance on Khloé in Wonder Land, the former Rich Kids of Beverly Hills star opened up to Khloé Kardashian about everything from having two kids just a year apart, to navigating public perception and processing the grief of losing both her father and brother. 

Below the highlights from the episode, adapted into a Q&A format.

Why did ‘Rich Kids of Beverly Hills’ end when it still had momentum?

“I think it ended because the management or whoever was working there at the time was like, once I got married they were like, ‘We don’t know where else this show is gonna go.’ It was a mistake.”

Do you miss doing reality TV?

“I think I would have preferred to maybe stay on two, three more seasons to really figure ourselves out. I think things would have evolved in a really good way, and I feel like if I were to do reality TV now, I’m so protective of my marriage, children, as you know, like being a mom, I don’t want to, I couldn’t be as free as I wanted. So I think it’s probably better not to do that.”

What’s your best advice for young women?

“My biggest advice to young girls is really to stay as ugly as you can for as long as you can. It’s true, right? Because if you’re beautiful at 25, you’re a dog at 35.”

What was it like having kids so close together?

“So I got pregnant two and a half months after I gave birth…We weren’t even done and I was pregnant. I was like, ‘what?’…I literally got pregnant in May. Both times I found out with my son in June. Like late June. And I just remember, like, I peed on the test. I looked away for a second and Jordan was like, don’t pretend it’s positive. Like you’re just tired. We have a newborn baby, right? And I looked away for a split second. I was on the floor and I looked back and I was like, ‘It’s positive.’ He’s like, ‘No, b*tch, it’s not.’ I was like, ‘No, it is.’ We took a hundred. And I remember going to the doctor and she’s like, you’re due February 17th…I feel like myself [now], as of four months ago. It took a long three years. You just can’t cheat the body. It was a lot physically.”

What’s parenting in Los Angeles actually like?

“Oh my God. It is crazy. I’m getting my daughter into kindergarten now…six schools, six interviews, six solo interviews with Row, six group interviews with Row. Six different school events. It is wild in these streets.”

Are you a hands-on mom?

“Yeah, I drive them. I make them dinner. I’m very that way…I cook everything. I’ll do roasted chicken, I’ll make lamb chops, I’ll make pasta.”

What has the last stretch of grief in your life looked like?

“It’s been a lot. [My brother] passed away in July. He was schizophrenic, paranoid schizophrenic. He lived in Switzerland…and it was just from one day to the next…[my mom] called me hysterically crying and was like, ‘Your brother died.’ And I was like…my dad just died. We can’t just have everyone dying. This is crazy.”

How did losing your dad change you?

“I thought it was going to be more of like a jolt to the system. And instead I just sort of, like, glazed over. And I really felt like I felt so close to him in real life, so supported by him, so loved by him, that I still felt that even though he wasn’t physically here. So that really—the strength of our relationship in this world—has carried me through having him in a different world. And I try not to pay too much attention to it, because if I do, it’s all encompassing. You go into a black hole of forever that you can’t process as a human being. You’re like, this is a person I love. This is my father, and I literally cannot speak to them. So I’ve really tried to get through it by communicating with him…

…I talk to him all the time in the car. My psychic has told me so many intimate, personal things that he will tell you. Memories that no one could know. Signs to look out for that I see on the daily. I just spoke to him two days ago, and I had lunch with some friends, and he literally said something to me through my psychic about what happened at that lunch that no one else knew.”

To hear the full conversation with Morgan Stewart, listen to Khloé in Wonder Land wherever you get your podcasts.

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