Ep. - 1468 - LISA HOCHSTEIN FROM REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MIAMI
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Hochstein from Real Housewives of Miami discusses moving through one of the most painful chapters of her life, her highly publicized divorce. Lisa opens up about what it was really like to navigate heartbreak in front of millions of viewers, the personal toll it took, how she protected her children, and the moments that pushed her to rebuild her sense of self. She shares the inspiration behind her new company, SplitWell, a platform designed to support others going through separation or divorce.
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| 0:49.7 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC, and I hope that you have had a fantastic week. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm so excited about my guest today, Lisa Hawkestein from Real Housewives of Miami. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, from the very beginning of Real Housewives of Miami, it was clear that Lisa Hawstein's marriage came with an imbalance baked into its foundation. She married young and her husband |
| 1:05.7 | was already a highly successful and well-known plastic surgeon. Lisa often joked that she was essentially a walking |
| 1:12.3 | poster board for his business, showing up looking perfect and helping promote their brand as a couple. |
| 1:18.8 | And truly, the show became an enormous platform for that. Being an original cast member helped |
| 1:23.9 | catapult his practice into a new level of visibility, with Lisa doing the emotional |
| 1:29.3 | and public-facing labor that so many spouses in uneven marriages end up shouldering and without |
| 1:34.7 | acknowledgement. This is one of the things that I really love about the real housewives, is you really |
| 1:40.0 | get a window into different marriages. But even amid the glamour, Lisa always stood out for her |
| 1:45.8 | vulnerability. She was open about her fertility struggles in a way that was really rare on reality |
| 1:51.9 | television at the time. And she was willing to be open about the quiet devastation of trying to |
| 1:58.0 | build a family when your body simply won't cooperate. |
| 2:06.4 | When Lisa and her husband eventually turned to surrogacy, she let viewers in on that journey too and celebrated the arrival of her two beautiful children with honesty and gratitude. |
| 2:12.3 | Then the franchise went off the air, and for a while it appears the Lisa's story had settled |
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