Derby Days, Body Shaming & That Wild Dr. Dre Rumor?!
When Reality Hits with Brittany Cartwright
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4.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
While in Kentucky for the Derby, Brittany dives into fan questions and opens up about the challenges she’s faced recently—from intense online criticism to healing after a toxic relationship. She shares what it’s like navigating co-parenting, rediscovering confidence, and learning to put herself first. Along the way, she talks motherhood, dating, and the journey of becoming stronger mentally and physically.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to when reality hits. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm so happy because I am talking to you guys from my hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:25.4 | So I am back home in my old Kentucky home. |
| 0:28.3 | It makes me always feel so happy and refreshed whenever I get to come here. |
| 0:33.1 | This time that I'm here, I'm here for the Kentucky Derby. |
| 0:36.5 | It is this weekend. I love the Kentucky Derby. It is this weekend. I love the Kentucky |
| 0:40.0 | Derby. It is such a part of, you know, Kentucky's history and growing up around that and |
| 0:46.2 | everything else. Of course, I love horses. We have them on the farm and everything like that. |
| 0:50.7 | And it's just so fun to get dressed up. I have, wear the hats and the sunglasses |
| 0:56.4 | and all that stuff, the mint juleps, just, you know, betting on the horse races, all that fun stuff. |
| 1:02.6 | I always go off of what names I like and what colors I like. I'm not really a gambler or a |
| 1:08.0 | better by any means, but I'll throw, you know, a little bit of money and just to have more fun and enjoy the day. So I need to start looking at the horses and see who I'm going to bet on tomorrow. So if any of you guys are listening to this before the Derby tomorrow, DM me. And let me know who you think the best chances are and everything like that. And if you're going to be at the |
| 1:27.7 | Derby tomorrow, make sure you say hello. I'm going to be there with Amazon with a couple other |
| 1:32.9 | people from the Bravo world and other TV shows, other influencers and things like that. So it's |
| 1:38.4 | going to be a fun time. This is my first time coming to the Derby alone. So I traveled on a red-eye flight last night by myself. I got here at 5 a.m. And I had to take a nap so that I'm ready to go. Tonight I have a dinner set up with, you know, all the people that are here with Amazon. And we are in a beautiful hotel. So it's going to be a lot of fun and of course Zach Wickham from |
| 2:02.0 | the valley my buddy my bestie he you know everyone knows that we've been friends from back in our |
| 2:08.6 | Kentucky days before before he even moved to L.A so we've been friends for like 17 years now so he is |
| 2:16.9 | also here in Louisville he's actually from Louis Louisville. I'm from Winchester. So he's actually here too. So I'm going to get to see him as well while I'm here. So I'm so excited. I just love being home. I don't have enough time because I'm here to work this time to go home and really see the family. |
| 2:34.6 | But don't worry, I'm going back at the end of the month because my nephew is graduating |
| 2:38.4 | high school. |
| 2:39.7 | So me and Cruz are going to take a trip to Kentucky at the end of this month. |
| 2:42.6 | So I'll get to see all my friends and family in Winchester. |
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