{"id":2197954,"date":"2026-10-14T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2197954"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:00:24","slug":"the-art-of-being-lisa-rinna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2197954","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Being Lisa Rinna"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"LOh page-488596093\">.page-488596093{&#8211;slot4:#0e111c;&#8211;slot5:#ffffff;&#8211;slot7:#0e111c;&#8211;slot11:#0e111c;&#8211;slot13:#0e111c;&#8211;slot14:#0e111c;&#8211;metaColor:#0e111c;&#8211;navColor:#0e111c}<\/p>\n<div class=\"cCV\">\n<div class=\"sWr KwQ\">\n<div class=\"GqV\">\n<div class=\"gsz zJ7 I0j Ttc\">\n<div class=\"rkd zA4\">\n<div class=\"Psy HgE\">\n<p class=\"QwJ vHj\">(Fashion)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"aVX w-U FfM ybG\">The Art Of Being Lisa Rinna<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r87 XEd\">\n<p>Ever eager to mine new creative territory, the Hollywood survivor and reinvention queen is hitting her stride \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vMw dUJ\">\n<address class=\"saA\">by <span>Monica Corcoran Harel<\/span><\/address>\n<div class=\"yj3 DHw\">\n<div><time datetime=\"2026-10-14T12:00:24.944Z\">1 hour ago<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"HXK\">\n<div class=\"pxF oL7 mvL s-907919821\">.s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z fpC\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/14\/9fc4ca97\/lisa-47_edit.jpg?w=414&amp;h=552&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kCE\">\n<div class=\"fxL Afg\" data-adroot=\"true\">\n<p>Most celebrities want to meet for an interview in a plush booth with a panoramic view at the Polo Lounge \u2014 a legacy flex. Or they opt for the exclusive San Vicente Bungalows, where snapping a photo will get you ejected at breakneck speed. Not Lisa Rinna. On a recent afternoon, I find myself waiting for the multi-hyphenate at a low-key deli perched above Bel Air. \u201cLoaded potato skins\u201d are on the laminated menu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made both of my girls work here when they turned 15,\u201d says Rinna, as she scooches into a black vinyl banquette. She\u2019s talking about her daughters with husband Harry Hamlin: singer Delilah Belle, now 28, and 25-year-old runway model Amelia Gray. It\u2019s hard to imagine the glamorous sisters slinging plates of eggs with corned beef hash. \u201cOh, they were so mad at me. None of their friends had jobs. I was the worst mother ever,\u201d Rinna says with a delighted cackle. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Sorry. Not sorry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a classic Rinna move: take a controversial stance and never back down. It\u2019s been part of her playbook for the past 40-plus years in Hollywood as an actor, soap opera regular, talk-show host, and reality-TV star. Memes that prove she\u2019s no pushover abound. For instance, when a snooty French fashion journalist questioned her avant-garde look at a 2025 Balenciaga show in Paris, she leveled him with a steely stare and quipped, \u201cIt\u2019s couture, honey. Look at the tag.\u201d During her eight seasons on <em>The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em>, Rinna never shied away from speaking her truth either. \u201cIt\u2019s so fun being an observer of this petty bullsh*t\u201d might be one of her most iconic \u2014 and cutting \u2014 lines ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR sSM CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 nbP ueQ\">\n<div class=\"pxF LlR mvL s990543888\">.s990543888{padding-top:125.1908%}@media(min-width:768px){.s990543888{padding-top:125%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s990543888{padding-top:125%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/dff158c0\/tzr_lisa-rinna_credit-jj-geiger_social.jpg?w=262&amp;h=328&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder her juicy tell-all memoir, <em>You Better Believe I\u2019m Gonna Talk About It,<\/em> instantly landed her on the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller list this past February and likely drop-kicked her off a few invite lists. (In the book, she spills enough tea about Star Jones, Denise Richards, and Lisa Vanderpump to ruin a tablecloth.) But today, we\u2019re putting the focus on her. Rinna is exhausted, just off a whirlwind couple of weeks that included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdUzq2yj9br\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\">turning heads at the Emmys in a Lever Couture dress<\/a> with a racy side-slit to her hipbone and storming the front rows at Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors at New York Fashion Week, wearing outfits worthy of rubbernecking, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been nonstop. It took me down. I need sleep,\u201d she says, though you wouldn\u2019t guess it. Dressed in a cool Blondie T-shirt with a casual Bleusalt cardigan and Hailey Bieber\u2019s jeans for Gap, Rinna nails incognito. Well, almost. Even a cute Prada bucket hat can\u2019t obscure her wide-set hazel eyes, sky-high cheekbones, and the signature pout that accentuates her profile. A few nearby diners sneak peeks our way. Maybe they recognize her as an ex-Housewife or as the banished contestant on Season 4 of the competition series <em>The Traitors<\/em>. Either way, she doesn\u2019t seem to notice. \u201cLook, if I walked in here all dressed up with the hair and the makeup, then I\u2019m \u2018Lisa F*cking Rinna,\u2019 and it\u2019s a whole other thing,\u201d she says, rolling her eyes at herself playfully.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rs0\"><p>\u201cReinvention is innate to me because I like to create. I\u2019m almost like a performance artist.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 YuL\">\n<div class=\"pxF JeR mvL s1595270274\">.s1595270274{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2915%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2877%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/8bf21644\/lisa-57.jpg?w=414&amp;h=552&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indeed, at 63, Rinna has tapped into her big-cat energy. She wears outlandish wigs, dances in her underwear on social media, and gets as political as Jane Fonda on occasion. \u201cAt this point in my life and at my age, I don\u2019t feel uncomfortable about anything, to be honest,\u201d she tells me. And like any feline, she\u2019s got more than a few lives under her Gucci belt. Rinna got her professional start acting on <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em> and <em>Melrose Place <\/em>in the \u201990s after growing up in Medford, Oregon. \u201cI was watching Carol Burnett and Cher on TV as a little girl,\u201d she says. \u201cThey were so funny. They were my icons.\u201d She married actor Hamlin (<em>L.A. Law <\/em>and later<em> Mad Men<\/em>) in 1997 and they had two daughters by the early aughts.<\/p>\n<p>But when Rinna turned 40 and Hollywood acting jobs started to dry up, she didn\u2019t panic. She pivoted. \u201cHarry said to me, \u2018Your photographs are in all these fashion magazines for your style. Can\u2019t we monetize that somehow?\u2019\u201d In 2003, the couple opened a chic clothing boutique called Belle Gray \u2014 a mashup of their daughters\u2019 middle names \u2014 which spawned another shop two years later. It\u2019s just one of the many ways Rinna has reinvented herself over the past four decades. In the most recent 20 years alone, she has become a QVC personality with her own eponymous clothing line, a beauty entrepreneur with (what else?) lip kits and lipsticks on Amazon, and a model for top designers, including a Marc Jacobs campaign when she turned 60.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think reinvention is innate to me because I like to create. I\u2019m almost like a performance artist,\u201d she says with a shrug. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t think I would be so excited about life in my early 60s. My mom always said she felt 25, even when she was 90.\u201d How old does she feel? \u201cI guess I feel 30 or 35. Not old.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR wgn CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 KcZ\">\n<div class=\"pxF rXH mvL s-1223976955\">.s-1223976955{padding-top:74.8792%}@media(min-width:768px){.s-1223976955{padding-top:75%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s-1223976955{padding-top:75%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/f87859d7\/lisa-14.jpg?w=414&amp;h=310&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>She name-checks her favorite old Hollywood movie stars: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford. \u201cMan, they had a rough time after 40,\u201d Rinna says. \u201cBut now, you have women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s winning the Emmys. Look at Salma Hayek and Nicole Kidman. It\u2019s a whole new world!\u201d Rinna credits her own cultural longevity with her curiosity and ability to evolve. She\u2019s also up for virtually anything. Not long after Rinna exited <em>RHOBH<\/em> in 2023, her publicist got a call from the French fashion design house Kenzo to invite Rinna to an upcoming runway show in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe asked me how I felt about it. I said, \u2018I feel great!\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cI mean, this wasn\u2019t on my bucket list, but they put me up in the George V and dressed me. I was pinching myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rs0\"><p>\u201cPeople assume I\u2019m high maintenance until I show up at fittings and fashion shows alone. They expect an entourage, but I like to fly solo.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That stint led to more front row appearances in Paris that season, and a fashion star was born. (Still, Rinna reminds me she was already wearing Alaia and Tom Ford for Gucci in the \u201990s: \u201cI started reading <em>Vogue<\/em> at 16.\u201d) The splashy attention from designers couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. Rinna\u2019s breakup with the Bravo franchise inarguably ended like a car bomb. Lisa Vanderpump tweeted \u201cDing dong\u201d when Rinna announced her resignation. \u201cI am tough, but the last couple of years were brutal,\u201d she says, admitting the cruel comments on her social media and negative public sentiment nearly undid her. She cried a lot. Turned to her loyal circle of L.A. girlfriends. Found a therapist who could help her wade through the backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were so mean. Said my husband was gay. My family got death threats. I thought people would never be nice to me again.\u201d She purses her famous lips and maintains, \u201cI was just doing my job.\u201d Meaning, she saw her participation on <em>RHOBH<\/em> as an acting role. Reality shows revolve around drama, and she served it up with a side of sass. Rinna played it almost like a scripted soap opera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 YuL\">\n<div class=\"pxF JeR mvL s1595270274\">.s1595270274{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2915%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2877%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/e5464534\/lisa-59.jpg?w=414&amp;h=552&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Offscreen, the real Lisa Rinna is actually pretty chill and self-aware. More down-home than diva. \u201cPeople assume I\u2019m high maintenance until I show up at fittings and fashion shows alone. They expect an entourage, but I like to fly solo. It\u2019s just easier,\u201d she says. Another misconception? She sighs. \u201cThey think I\u2019m a b*tch because of my persona as a woman who took no sh*t on <em>Housewives<\/em>. I\u2019m fine with it because I was more of a people-pleaser growing up. Sometimes, I can\u2019t believe how strong I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her book, Rinna reveals a little-known terrifying fact that still profoundly informs her perspective. A few years before Rinna was born, her late mother, Lois DeAndrade, was brutally attacked by a co-worker who would go on to become a serial killer. DeAndrade was lucky to survive. \u201cI inherited a level of fear that wasn\u2019t mine,\u201d she says. \u201cI was taught not to trust anyone and to never be vulnerable. I\u2019m working on that now. I love the evolution of myself as a human.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR Idm\">\n<div class=\"DbX Qev\">\n<div class=\"uES fEt\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"B1N\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"qmt uT7\">\n<div class=\"FDO\">\n<div class=\"ENZ\">\n<div class=\"pxF XJ- mvL s-1601771843\">.s-1601771843{padding-top:133.25%}@media(min-width:768px){.s-1601771843{padding-top:133.375%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z nIy\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/9590e720\/lisa-43.jpg?w=400&amp;h=533&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"EGE\">(+)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"FDO\">\n<div class=\"ENZ\">\n<div class=\"pxF XJ- mvL s609386619\">.s609386619{padding-top:130.25%}@media(min-width:768px){.s609386619{padding-top:130.25%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z nIy\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/f799753d\/lisa-42.jpg?w=400&amp;h=521&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"EGE\">(+)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yOD GLK\">\n<div class=\"ki0 kpP\">\n<div class=\"MNV\"><\/div>\n<p><label class=\"QNb y8V St5\" for=\"lightboxCheckbox-488637694\"><button aria-label=\"open lightbox\" class=\"kMc\"><\/button><\/label><\/div>\n<div class=\"C1C\">\n<div class=\"ZXG\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"LOc\"><\/div>\n<p><button class=\"ikQ Xfx\"><span class=\"Od1\">INFO<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"olh\">1\/2<\/div>\n<div class=\"xCo\"><button class=\"ikQ VkL\"><\/button><button class=\"ikQ Olc\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She says that commitment to personal growth has also kept her and Hamlin together for almost 30 years \u2014 \u201cIf we need to do work, we go to therapy\u201d \u2014 which is rare in a town where celebrity marriages expire faster than a carton of milk. \u201cWe raised our kids, and now, we\u2019re back to being a couple. We\u2019re always evolving separately and together. He might be at a nuclear physics conference because he loves that sort of thing, while I might be in Paris at the fashion shows. Still, we get a kick out of what each other does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two have been known to coordinate their outfits on the red carpet. It\u2019s a risky style ploy: Remember Britney and Justin\u2019s dueling denim at the American Music Awards back in the day? But Rinna doesn\u2019t worry about the wrath of critics though. \u201cFor the Emmys, I really wanted us both to wear the same exact matching ERL tuxedos, but they couldn\u2019t make them in time,\u201d she says. \u201cThat was my vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rs0\"><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think I would be so excited about life in my early 60s. My mom always said she felt 25, even when she was 90.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 YuL\">\n<div class=\"pxF JeR mvL s1595270274\">.s1595270274{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2915%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2877%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/68a4e407\/lisa-8.jpg?w=414&amp;h=552&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clearly, Rinna is a visionary with no fear when it comes to fashion. Like an ultra-pop version of postmodern artist Cindy Sherman\u2019s portraits, she courts risk, toying with identity, gender politics, and beauty standards through her personal style. Her dramatic 2024 entrance at a Balenciaga show in a head-to-toe panther-black puffer read like a straight-jacket for a dangerous woman. At this year\u2019s AmfAR Gala outside Cannes, she showed up in a rainbow-beaded Kevin Germanier fitted gown with a bleached blond bouffant worthy of a Hitchcock heroine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, fashion is fun and creative,\u201d says Rinna, who works with L.A. stylist Daniela Viviana Romero. \u201cI find joy in picking a look, playing a character. Who am I going to be today? That\u2019s how I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR CEt\">\n<figure class=\"Qf5 YuL\">\n<div class=\"pxF JeR mvL s1595270274\">.s1595270274{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2915%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s1595270274{padding-top:133.2877%}}<img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"N4z\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.bustle.com\/uploads\/image\/2026\/10\/9\/f34f5b9f\/lisa-52.jpg?w=414&amp;h=552&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;dpr=2\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I ask Rinna about her next professional iteration, she smiles coyly and uses the term \u201cfull circle.\u201d She\u2019s revisiting her first love: acting. \u201cI can\u2019t be too specific until it\u2019s announced, but we\u2019re going back to Broadway,\u201d she says, referring to her and Hamlin\u2019s debut nearly 20 years ago as Roxie Hart and Billy Flynn in <em>Chicago<\/em>. (A week later, the news hits: the couple will join Andrew Rannells and Tituss Burgess in a staged Broadway production, <em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, <\/em>from November through early January.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love theater. I love a live audience. Every night, it\u2019s a new challenge,\u201d she tells me as she takes a final sip of her green tea. When Rinna stands up to leave, I ask her if she wants to set the record straight on any hearsay or rumors about her before she heads home. \u201c<em>Anything<\/em>?\u201d she asks. I nod. \u201cHmmm. You know what? I\u2019m finally at a place where I don\u2019t need to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sWr iGR Rik\">\n<div class=\"Hvl Qpa\">\n<div class=\"F2P\">\n<p><em>Photographer: JJ Geiger<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Writer: Monica Corcoran Harel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editorial Director: Angela Melero<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Creative Director: Karen Hibbert<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hair: Florido Basallo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Makeup: Dom Della<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: Aaron Curry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Video Director: JJ Geiger<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Director: Jackie Ladner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Production: Josh Crane, , Kiara Brown, Danielle Smit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Features Director: Nolan Feeney<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Social Director: Charlie Mock<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Talent Bookings: Special Projects<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Location: Sandbourne Santa Monica<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"BdA\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.page-488596093{&#8211;slot4:#0e111c;&#8211;slot5:#ffffff;&#8211;slot7:#0e111c;&#8211;slot11:#0e111c;&#8211;slot13:#0e111c;&#8211;slot14:#0e111c;&#8211;metaColor:#0e111c;&#8211;navColor:#0e111c} (Fashion) The Art Of Being Lisa Rinna Ever eager to mine new creative territory, the Hollywood survivor and reinvention queen is hitting her stride \u2014 again. by Monica Corcoran Harel 1 hour ago .s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}@media(min-width:768px){.s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}}@media(min-width:1025px){.s-907919821{padding-top:133.3333%}} Most celebrities want to meet for an interview in a plush booth with a panoramic view at the Polo Lounge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,255],"class_list":["post-2197954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-thezoereport-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}