Gina Kirschenheiter Arrested in Orange County

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Gina Kirschenheiter was arrested in Orange County on Thursday, January 31, E! News reports.

The Real Housewives of Orange County mom was stopped by police in Rancho Santa Margarita, California for a suspected traffic violation, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesperson told E! News. She was then placed under arrest for allegedly driving under the influence and taken to a jail. Gina was released with a citation around noon on Friday, February 1. 

"I made a very bad choice the other night after a mom’s night out," Gina said in a statement to The Daily Dish. "I am extremely disappointed in myself and regret my actions wholeheartedly. I have learned a valuable lesson and hope to show you all that this one incident does not define me."

Gina joined RHOC in the most recent season, Season 13. Fans watched the Long Island native adjust to West Coast life, expanding her social circle and getting to know her fellow OC Housewives. Gina also let fans into the ups and downs of her personal life, including raising three young children and her divorce from husband Matt Kirschenheiter.

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Gina Kirschenheiter Shares an Update on Her Divorce

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From all of the love Gina Kirschenheiter has shown her husband, Matt Kirschenheiter, this season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, you would hardly know this couple has decided to call it quits. But Gina did file for divorce on April 2, citing irreconcilable differences, and the couple is moving forward with the process. 

Gina shared an update on her divorce proceedings during an interview with The Daily Dish in New York City on Monday. "We are going along with the process. We're actually sitting down with our attorneys, like all together, on November 2 to just basically finish up everything," she said. "It's complicated getting divorced, and there's a lot of paperwork. There's all this back-and-forth, so we're just getting a little bit confused in the process, so we just said, 'Let's just sit down and take an entire day to just bang this out,' so that's what we're doing." 

Gina and Matt's marriage may be coming to an end, but they will always be a family, along with their three children, Nicholas, Sienna, and Luca. "We're happy. We're still doing the same thing we've been doing. Nothing's really changed for us this whole time. It's OK. It's good. We just did this charity thing together last weekend," Gina said. "I mean, we're still a family, so that's never gonna change. We're just not gonna share a bank account anymore, you know?"

Gina recently posted a photo of herself, Matt, and their three kids at that aforementioned charity event, and this family definitely still looks as united as ever. But Gina told The Daily Dish that they want to and have put in the effort to continue to maintain a good relationship after marriage. "It's work just like being married is. It's odd to me that people think because you're getting divorced, you can no longer be a family or that it's so tragic for everybody or you're ruining your kids' lives," she shared. "And I really just feel like I would like to kind of normalize what is my normal life, which is I'm getting divorced, but I still have love for my family, and Matt will always be part of my family." 

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Gina Kirschenheiter Is Bringing Long Island To 'Real Housewives of Orange County'

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Her official bio on Bravo's website calls her an "expressive outsider from Long Island," but there's more to this new Housewife than New York nativity. Gina Kirschenheiter is joining The Real Housewives of Orange County. She's shaking things up on Season 13, and she's not worried about doing it with political correctness, either. 

According to her bio, Gina moved to Orange County three years ago with her then-husband, Matthew Kirschenheiter, and two children, Nicholas and Sienna, for Matthew's job. He is a financial planner, per Newsday. The two have since had another child, Luca, who is now two years old. Us Weekly reported that in April of this year, Gina filed for divorce from Matthew and cited irreconcilable differences as the reason.

Even though Gina and her husband were technically together during the production of Season 13, he won't appear on the show, and her bio even calls her "a single mom of sorts." She told Newsday, however, that his lack of presence on camera during this upcoming season has nothing to do with their impending divorce. "His employer did not want him to [be on the show],” she said. “It wasn’t a decision having anything to do with our relationship. Pure timing.”

According to the same piece, the two are both alumni of Hofstra University alumni, which is a private college in Long Island, New York. She majored in Psychology, because that's what she was interested in, but nothing really ever came of it as a career. “I was a very typical kid of my generation,” she told Newsday. “I went to college, since that’s what you do, and I liked psychology. But not enough to pull the trigger on it” for work. Instead, she worked as a flight attendant for North American Airlines because she wanted to travel after college, and she also worked as an executive assistant on the Upper East Side. She planned to return to school at the Hofstra School of Medicine for a master's degree in health administration when she became pregnant with her first born, Nicholas, who is now six years old. From that point on, she decided to focus on motherhood.  

And motherhood will continue to be a significant part of her identity as she appears on RHOC. Matthew spends a lot of the time living and working in Los Angeles, so she is often left to parent the children alone, per Gina's bio. However, despite the distance and now, the divorce, Gina remains dedicated to keeping her family together. She recently posted an Instagram photo of the five of them, including Matthew, playing in the sand on the beach. "Party of five!!!" she wrote, with the hashtag #familytradition.

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Gina Kirschenheiter Files For Divorce From Husband Matthew

RadarOnline.com:

The reality show marriage curse Opens a New Window. hit new Real Housewives of Orange County star Gina Kirschenheiter before the show even aired, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.

Gina filed for divorce from her husband of seven years in the middle of filming the Bravo show.

According to bombshell court documents obtained by Radar Opens a New Window. , Gina filed for divorce on April 2, 2018 in the Orange County Superior Court, citing “irreconcilable differences” with her husband Matthew Kirschenheiter.

She listed her separation date as March 30, 2018 and filed for divorce just two days later.

Gina and Matthew tied the knot on May 15, 2010. They have three small children Nicholas, 5, Sienna, 4, and Luca, 2, together.

Gina asked for sole physical custody of the children, but shared legal custody, with Matthew being granted visitation.

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Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson Join 'Real Housewives of Orange County'

USmagazine.com:

Allow Us to introduce two new Bravolebrities! Following the departure of Meghan Edmonds and Lydia McLaughlin, The Real Housewives of Orange County has welcomed two sassy new woman to the cast: Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson.

In season 13, Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge and Shannon Beador are working together to try to rebuild their friendship – something that’s easier said than done. Meanwhile, their outside relationships are also causing some drama. Kelly Dodd and Shannon are both single and figuring out how to live life post-divorce. Vicki is hoping her boyfriend, Steve Lodge, will finally commit, and Tamra is worried about her husband Eddie Judge’s health. Vicki also brings in the new faces to the group – estranged friend Emily and acquaintance Gina – so it’s only a matter of time before the drama begins.

Emily is an Ohio native who came from nothing, working to become an attorney and party planner. She’s constantly busy and with three kids of her own all under 5 years old – a daughter named Annabelle and twin boys Luke and Keller – as well as two stepdaughters from her husband Shane’s previous marriage, so she’s struggling to figure out what’s next.

Gina is a Long Island-native and also a mother of three kids under 5. She “keeps her expectations low and her patience high,” Bravo revealed in the press release, as Gina’s husband works in Los Angeles during the week, causing her to raise their family on her own. During the season, she’ll re-evaluate what’s important in her life. She’s also quickly learning, three years into living in the OC, that she can’t trust many.

Season 13 of The Real Housewives of Orange County premieres on Bravo Monday, July 16, at 9 p.m. ET.

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