Rachel Zoe Explains Dating Younger Men After Divorce

The Bravo star said raising Skyler and Kaius will be ‘the greatest achievement of my life,’ describing the boys as ‘earth angels.’

The candid interview comes as Zoe has also been reflecting publicly on the breakdown of her marriage on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

During a recent episode, the fashion designer recalled the surprising moment Berman proposed to her — just one day after she admitted she had ‘fooled around’ with a model early in their relationship.

Speaking to castmates Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley over dinner in the Hamptons, Zoe revealed the encounter happened four years into her relationship with Berman.

The fashion mogul described the model as ‘the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life’ and said she confessed because she ‘felt so bad.’

‘I told him that I fooled around with this guy, and I'm not joking, he proposed to me the next day,’ she said. ‘True story.’

But Zoe also revealed the moment that ultimately led to the end of their decades-long marriage.

‘Whatever happened, happened and then I just split open,’ she said, adding, ‘I just remember literally being on the ground.’

The star said the couple had gotten into ‘a big fight.’

When her co-stars asked how she discovered what Berman had done, she replied simply: ‘Well, he told me.’

Zoe recalled she had just returned home from designer Brian Atwood's birthday party when she received ‘a call’ from Berman, who was in Aspen.

‘Honestly, it's like I saw red and just hung up. People have always asked me over the years what's the secret to our success. The first answer was always trust. It's like, when that trust is broken, it's broken. There's no going back.’

‘The way that we were married, I never looked at his phone, not once. Never in my life — not even thought about, talked about, considered,’ she said.

Zoe said some people have asked whether Berman confessed ‘because he wanted to hurt’ her.

‘You don't think he told you because he felt guilty?’ Kemsley asked.

‘Yes, because he's never lied to me a day in his life, so I think it's partly that. I think it's also, like, "I want to see if you still give a s**t. I want to see if you care even this much." My reaction is: "I can't come back. I can't un-hear, I can't unsee, I can't un-know."’

Zoe also said Berman ‘was a secure person’ but admitted that during the last six to seven years of their marriage ‘it just went down.’

‘He was so secure. Everyone would ask him, "How do you let her do that? She's going and styling all these huge male celebrities, these big male supermodels, these guys are hitting on her all the time." He was always like, "If they can get her, they can have her." It worked because I never cheated on him.’

Zoe added that while she ‘would flirt with guys’ and ‘they would flirt with me,’ she insisted it ‘was nothing.’