All tһe Wаys Brіttаny Cаrtwrіgһt іs Tһrіvіng After Seраrаtіng from Jаx Tаylor
Brittany Cartwright is enjoying her single-girl summer. The Bravo star announced her separation from Jax Taylor on the February 29 episode of their podcast When Reality Hits, less than a month before The Valley premiered. At the time, viewers were shocked by the split but after watching Season 1 of The Valley, the separation made more sense. On the series, Brittany admitted she and Jax were rarely intimate, confessing she wondered if he was still attracted to her. Now that Brittany has had space to become her own woman, she’s blossomed.
Here are the ways Brittany is thriving in her separation from Jax:
Brittany Cartwright stopped throwing up
Brittany’s stomach issues were a major plot line on The Valley. The 35-year-old has been open about having a weak stomach due to issues with a stomach ulcer in the past. On the show, Jax attributed his wife’s sickness to her alcohol consumption. He scolded her for getting sick, telling her she needed to act like a mom and stop drinking so much.
“If you can’t handle your alcohol then you stop f*cking drinking. Throwing up? What are you in college? You’re a mom,” he said.
She spoke about how Jax’s words affected her in a May episode, telling her co-stars she felt drained by her husband.
“He does this to me all the time. He always puts me down,” she shared. “I feel like Jax is sucking the life out of me. He is sucking away all my sparkle. How much more of this can I possibly take?”
Well, it looks like Brittany’s stomach issues have improved greatly since filming wrapped. In May, Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay revealed that Brittany has not been sick since she separated from Jax.
“I know just from talking to Brittany, she says that she has not thrown up once since they separated, whether drinking or not,” she said on the May 24 episode of her podcast Scheananigans. “I think it was stress-induced when she broke out in hives like her body was having a physical reaction.”
She has the support of her girls
Scheana has been #TeamBrittany since the split. She voiced her concerns about Jax’s behavior on the Vanderpump Rules: After Show
“With Jax, I feel like there is a different, monstrous side of him that comes out, and from what I heard from my friends on [The Valley], he said some very unkind things to Brittany, which I’m not OK with,” she said. ““It makes me think that he hasn’t changed, and he hasn’t grown.”
Kristen Doute has also shared her support for Brittany. At The Valley premiere in March, she told E! News she was “proud” of her friend for setting boundaries with Jax. She added that it was Jax’s responsibility to fix the issues in their marriage, not Brittany’s.