Where Are These Real Housewives Kids Today?

Bravo's Real Housewives series have an unmatched level of drama. For families that are routinely causing controversy — from Turtle Time to prison time and the occasional blackface Halloween costume — their kids certainly manage to stay out of the spotlight. Could it be that the children of The Real Housewives grew up to be totally normal despite their TV roots? Sort of! It's a total toss up.

Somehow, all of the Manzo children grew up to have totally normal lives, albeit on the wildly successful line of normal. Ramona Singer's daughter strayed from the spotlight in favor of Wall Street, and the Hadids just followed in their mama's model footsteps. Business as usual, right? Unfortunately, for every Hadid Vogue cover or Manzo business venture, another housewife is probably spending her time visiting her kid in jail. Just check out what's going on with the former Real Housewives of Orange County.

From weddings, to babies, to business ventures, to attempted murder charges, this is what the children of the Real Housewives are up to now.

Lauren Manzo has grown up a lot since her time on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The reality TV spawn has run through a number of major life milestones over the last few years. In 2018, the Manzo'd With Children star celebrated her 30th birthday with an epic party, and we're guessing her husband was in attendance because — you guessed it — she has a husband.

According to US Weekly, the starlet tied the knot with her long-term boyfriend Vito Scalia in 2015. To make things even more adorable, her reception was held at her family's restaurant. Two years later, the happy couple welcomed a baby girl — all before the starlet became a tricenarian. Since then, Lauren has dodged divorce rumors because she's taken her life out of the public eye (read: off Instagram) and started enjoying her time in the real world.

"They are very much married," said mama and certified Real Housewife Caroline Manzo during an appearance on her sons Albie and Chris' podcast, Dear Albie (via The Daily Dish). "Lauren just doesn't post a lot because she doesn't want to hear your bulls**t. Plain and simple. We deal with a lot of bulls**t; she doesn't want to hear it."

Gigi and Bella Hadid also have a younger brother who jumped into the family business. Though he remains relatively under the radar, Anwar Hadid is, in fact, a model. According to W Magazine, the star made his runway debut in 2016 with Moschino. He's since become the face of Tommy Hilfiger and landed campaigns with Hugo Boss and Zadig & Voltaire. As of this writing, he is signed to IMG Models.

On the tabloid side, the youngest Hadid sibling has been linked to Kendall Jenner. According to Seventeen, Hadid and Jenner were spotted "making out at the CFDA Awards after-party in NYC" in June 2018. Things got even more scandalous from there when the couple were spotted sporting matching hickeys a few months later in September. By November of that year, he was reportedly posting Instagram stories about a breakup (hey, we were all teens once).

According to Page Six, Anwar also branched out from modeling and became a luxury jewelry designer. He launched the line Martyre in 2019 with rapper Yoni Laham. Pieces reportedly run from $195 to $795. C'mon, as if the Hadids shop at Claire's.

Lauri Peterson, who left The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2008, has been open about her son's many legal struggles. When this mama joined her Bravo series, her introduction tagline was even "Are the police involved?" They were, in fact, usually involved. As of 2018, Josh Waring had spent the last two years in jail for attempted murder (per Page Six). So what happened?

According to The Los Angeles Times, Waring started "drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana" when he was 12 years old. He was "charged with felony assault" after fighting his teacher at age 16, and his time in a juvenile hall became a Real Housewives plot point. He sought treatment sometime between the first two seasons, but in 2008, he was "arrested for possession of heroin" and according to Page Six, hit with nine separate charges. The reality TV spawn was sent to jail for 8 months. 

Since then, Waring has been bouncing in and out of jail. He tied the knot with a woman named Hannah Kiefer, who also had a substance abuse problem, and welcomed a daughter named Kennady Kaydence, who Peterson adopted. As of 2019, Waring was asking a judge to drop his murder charges in relation to a 2016 shooting outside of his sober living home because he believed prosecutors and investigators listened in on his "privileged jail phone calls," according to Radar Online. The tab also reported that Waring was accused of "slashing" inmates in jail and smuggling drugs.

Noel and Victoria de Lesseps made headlines in 2018 after joining their father in a lawsuit against their own mother, former countess and Real Housewives of New York star Luann de Lesseps. According to The Blast, the star was allegedly in breach of her divorce deal when she sold their $8 million home in Bridgehampton, New York in 2014 after failing to create a trust for their two kids. She allegedly used that cash to purchase a brand new Hamptons home for $3.1 million.

Though Luann was legally allowed to change residence as part of the divorce deal, she had to make her children owners of one half of the new Hamptons home. Instead, she reportedly threatened to sell the house to purchase a pad in Upstate New York without giving her kids a dime. Victoria, Noel, and their father hoped to block the sale.

It's unclear what's happening with the lawsuit, as of this writing, but Luann claimed she has reconciled with her kids, who are taking the art world by storm. Victoria, who was working for Nicole Miller in 2019, had a 2014 showing at Art Basel Miami. Noel is also an artist and dabbles in skateboarding.

Ramona Singer's famed first tagline was "I like making my own money. I find that an aphrodisiac." As it turns out, her daughter, Avery Singer, doesn't stray too far from her mama's ideals. The young star decided to jump into the world of finance. There's no Turtle Time here, just hard work.

In 2018, Ramona gave The Daily Dish an update about her daughter, who had recently graduated from college. Avery reportedly had passed her Series 7 exam and was gearing up to take the Series 6 (for those of you who aren't financiers, those are required — and very tedious — exams you need to take before you can work on Wall Street).

"She said to me, 'Mom, I really want to be very successful financially in life, so what career should I pursue if I wanted to be very successful financially?'" Ramona told The Daily Dish. "I said, 'Well to me, where the most financial success is either Wall Street finance, [or] real estate or computer technology.' So she chose finance 'cause she's really good with numbers."

According to Avery's LinkedIn, the Real Housewives of New York daughter started working as an analyst at Neuberger Berman in March 2019. She previously worked as a registered associate at Morgan Stanley.

Jacqueline Laurita's daughter took a few years to get it together following her time on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Ashley Holmes' move to Los Angeles rocked the series, and her habitual disagreements with her mama were a central plot point for some time. According to The Daily Dish, the star shipped out west in 2011 for an internship with Buzznet and Celebuzz and to work on a clothing line, website, and book. Let's be real: she was always all over the place — such is youth.

Her life in Hollywood didn't last long. Holmes got evicted from her L.A. apartment that same year. According to Radar Online, she owed $1,654.96 in back rent for October 2011, but eventually made it back to the west coast after the small hiccup.

"I went about handling the situation the absolute wrong way. What else can I say? It was a hard time for me. 20 years old and on my own for the first time — across the country," she told Real Mr. Housewife. "I learned the hard way, ha. After I was evicted from that apartment, I had moved back to NJ for about three months. I ended up being able to move back to LA shortly after."

Since then, Holmes reigned it in. The starlet had a child with then-boyfriend Pete Malleo in 2016. The pair eloped at City Hall two years later.