Aurora Culpo is putting herself back out there following a recent heartbreak.
In an interview with People, the reality star has revealed she is on several dating apps – including Stir, an app designed specifically for single parents.
‘I’m hoping to connect with somebody who maybe also has kids,’ Aurora, whose sister is fashion influencer Olivia Culpo, told the publication.
‘I’m optimistic, and I know it’s going to happen, but I’m not in a rush.’
But love isn’t a major priority for the star.
Aurora Culpo is putting herself back out there following a recent heartbreak
‘I’m excited to meet someone eventually. Right now, I’m kind of dating myself and seeing what’s going to happen,’ she explained.
It comes over a year following the finalization of her divorce from Michael ‘Mikey’ Bortone and recent split from Paul Bernon, the ex-boyfriend of Bethenny Frankel.
Since ending her marriage with Bortone, Culpo has enjoyed several casual relationships, ‘some of them more public than others for various reasons that are just out of my control,’ she told People.
Aurora, best known for starring in the Discovery+ series The Culpo Sisters alongside her sisters Olivia and Sophia, was married to Michael from 2019 to 2023.
The pair share two daughter Solei, four, and son Remi, six.
Her love life made headlines earlier this year after she became linked to Bernon, who at the time had recently split from Frankel.
But that relationship wasn’t mean to be either – just two months after sparking up a romance, they called it quits in July.
On an episode of her podcast Barely Filtered, Aurora revealed Paul called it quits with her over the phone.
Culpo’s latest ex, Paul Bernon, was previously in a relationship with Bethenny Frankel; Frankel and Bernon pictured 2022
She explained: ‘I would have preferred it to go longer, but unfortunately he dumped me… he called me and said ‘It’s not working.’
Despite feeling that her and Bernon were not a match, she still felt ‘disappointed.’
The split comes just weeks after her older sister Olivia told the influencer she could not bring the producer to her wedding to Christian McCaffrey, causing family drama.
Recalling the moment her sister objected to her bringing a plus one, Aurora said: ‘She just didn’t know him yet and also [Paul] didn’t want to come. We were joking and doing our banter thing and she said he was [my] flavor of the month.
Culpo is best known for starring in the Discovery+ series The Culpo Sisters alongside her sisters Olivia and Sophia
‘I said, ‘Don’t say that. That’s not fair [and] he’s gonna listen to that.’ She’s like, ‘That has nothing to do with him and everything to do with you.’
When Paul later found out what Olivia said he ended his and the Rhode island native’s relationship ‘the next day.’
Aurora joked in the podcast saying, ‘He was not the flavor of the month. He was the flavor of two months.’
Even before they went their separate ways, Aurora’s doubts began to build up.
Aurora is currently on Stir, a dating app for single parents; pictured 2024
‘During the week before my sister’s wedding, I was having feelings like, “This relationship probably isn’t for me. He doesn’t want to have kids.” I didn’t want that door to be closed,’ she explained on the same podcast episode.
‘There were things, like, he doesn’t want any more kids. I probably do want more kids,’ the mother-of-two said.
She explained further: ‘Our communication style was so different. I’m not someone who can give space when someone feels hurt. Like, I need to talk about things right away. We’re not compatible and I would have known that had I let the relationship move at a logical pace, but that’s not how I operate.’
Aurora, however, is determined to move on and is ‘back on the [dating] apps.’
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