Meghan King Edmonds has decided to stop pretending that she lives in Orange County. She is expecting twin boys in June and wants to raise her children in St. Louis and be an actual housewife. Meghan announced on her personal blog today that she will not be returning to RHOOC.
Today is a bittersweet day for me. After three seasons of the rollercoaster that is The Real Housewives of Orange County I’ve decided to hang up my OC Housewife hat.
Also, filming is exhausting!
After my first season I knew what to expect for round two, but even still, filming during IVF and then the beginning of pregnancy during my second season was difficult. I was hormonal and tired all the time. But my third season takes the cake: I had a newborn and had to hire a full time live-in nanny (my cousin) so as to allow me the flexibility to meet my obligations of continuous days and long hours of filming, traveling, etc. When I was home I was a full time hands-on mom (you didn’t get to see this) doing all the regular mom stuff including waking up at all hours to breast feed my baby – all while my husband worked his crazy baseball schedule around the US while I was learning how to be a first time mom. Again, I was hormonal and EXHAUSTED. My mind was often foggy as I filmed but I put on a great face and did it because I loved being a Housewife and was so grateful for my opportunity. It was only after the season was filmed that I felt I was finally out of the newborn fog and I could look back on the past few months of season 12 with clarity. I had no idea how exhausted I actually was until I wasn’t exhausted anymore! Season 12 was a real challenge for me.
Like really exhausting, and bitches are mean!
As I was filming the season 12 reunion I knew in my heart I was done: this wasn’t my place anymore. (The funny thing is that going into the reunion I was so committed to coming back for season 13; just one more season before the twins were born.) I was only 5 weeks pregnant when I filmed the reunion and I was already exhausted. I knew that I was going to have a long pregnancy growing the twins and it would be next to impossible to film. I could do it, but did I really want to? Twin pregnancies must be treated more delicately than a singleton pregnancy and are high-risk by default, so I also wanted to have a peaceful pregnancy with positive influences. Consistent positive influences are harder to find on RHOC!
This is going to mess up Jim’s entire life. He used to having her tied to the OC for five or so months of the year so she could not go to all the baseball events. This could get awkward!
I’m sad to leave RHOC, I’m sad to leave Orange County. I wasn’t ready to make this decision for another year but I felt it was time now. In October when I told Jimmy I was finished he urged me to take a couple weeks to think on it before I called Andy Cohen. So I did.
Andy on the other hand was fine with it. Also, production would film her sleeping, yet never managed to get any film of all the full-time mothering she was doing.
And then over Thanksgiving Andy and I met up in our shared hometown of St Louis and I told him about our impending twins as well as my intent to leave the show. He was completely understanding. In fact, all of production has been nothing but understanding and supportive of me and my decisions every step of the way. I have only praise for everyone behind the scenes from the tip top of the totem pole down to the production assistants doing coffee runs for the crew. These people were my family for three years: cleaning up Girly’s Girl’s potty as she got too excited, punching in the code to my front door because I was in the shower, walking around in my robe with wet hair while getting ready to film. One of my fondest memories was after I had done my embryo transfer with what would become Aspen I was laying in bed falling asleep. I’d dozed off and woken up to a camera staring in my face with a camera operator behind it. I remember smiling and feeling comfortable knowing I wasn’t alone. This illustrates the extent to which the staff and crew became an almost constant part of our daily lives, almost like they were part of the family.
Oh yeah, don’t forget the husband.
And lastly but not least importantly, I wanted to spend more time with my husband during baseball season and more time with my two young step kids who live full-time in St Louis. So Jimmy and I have decided to dig our roots into the midwest as we begin to build our dream home for our rapidly expanding family.
What I am not going to miss is Vicki and Lydia and Kelly and Peggy.
Finally, I know this is what I must do. I must focus on my family and my pregnancy. I will miss the rush of the first all-cast event of the season, the anticipation of receiving each week’s episode, the thrill of wrapping the reunion. I have made soul sisters in Shannon Beador and Tamra Judge and that can’t be lost. They have touched my heart and I would do anything for them and I know they feel the same way about me – what a gift to have found that on RHOC! But I guess it’s time for me to become an actual real housewife of sorts. Oh, the irony!
I feel like Peggy will be replaced. Has that already been confirmed? I forget. I hope they keep Lydia. And the rest of them should all definitely be brought back. How do you feel about Meghan leaving?
For some reason, I thought it was already decided she wasn’t coming back..? Maybe, I was so busy praying that Peggy won’t be back, I got fog brain again…
Me too. I’m like didn’t she know she was not coming back? Lol.
Finally she admits she wasn’t a 1/4 time Mom
Meant was only..a 1/4 time Mom
I hope Peggy comes back. I’m happy Megan is leaving the show.
Please, if (though I can’t see how there’s much doubt) she’s fired, she’ll turn up for filming like “fire? I no see fire? No understand these words you speak. I’m Armenian… Diko!” ?
Ha!
I heard her voice in my head as I read that. Very funny!
Goodbye MKE.
LOL! I read it in her voice as well!!!
I’m very sad that Meghan is out, I really liked her on the show. I felt we finally had a millennial housewife that was compatible. Plus stood up to the old lady of the OC and exposed her for the cancer scam that she was part of. I will really miss detective MKE.
I liked Detective Meghan too. I also liked that she rarely had those annoying freak out moments where she was screaming two inches from someone’s face. I can’t stand those scenes between the women. In real life, someone would get slapped.
A singleton pregnancy? Is that a word?
Weird.
Never liked MKE.
TT, I truly thought Meghan, Peggy and Lydia were being replaced. I guess it’s too early for that to have been more than rumor?
Its a word that normal people never use
It’s a very common phrase in the IVF process…
Singleton was used in Bridget Jones to refer to a single person; not a pregnancy, LOL.
The term singleton pregnancy is used a lot in fertility treatment discussions to distinguish them from multiple pregnancies. And in research when that determine things that are more common with a multiple pregnancy that singleton ones. Now please stop making me defend MKE.
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I barely watched this season but never cared that much for her. Put a fork in this show along with Jersey and Atlanta! They are tired and done.
They are so bad. I hope RHNY stays watchable. RHOC has become so terribly boring, Meghan staying or leaving means nothing.
Just hoping that the idea of DuBrow doesn’t pop up in a conference room. Ugh.
Wouldn’t a complete reboot be great? Give them all a rest for a year or two and come back with all new casts. Clean sweep. Bravo canned Miami and DC, didn’t they? Maybe there’s hope.
As a viewer, I am relieved that Meghan is leaving. I didn’t like her dynamic with the other cast members, a bit aloof at times.
Yay! I’m glad she is leaving. It is long overdue. She brought absolutely nothing to the show last season. The only thing she did last season was stir the pot and butt her nose in everyone’s business because she had no business of her own. No one is interested in buying her candles or anything from her Great Value Anthropologie. GOOD BYE
Hahaha! Great Value Anthropologie!!
God bless her. And good luck to her marriage. Poor Jimmy being watched all the time will freak out fast 😀
Meh. I’m happy for her pregnancy but won’t miss her on the show. I think we’re all in agreement Peggy will also get fired and that Vicki/Shannon/Tamra/Kelly will be back with Lydia on the bubble. I reckon Meghan being out probably helps Lydia’s chances of coming back, I hope so.
I’m sad to see her go! She was really growing on me. But it would have been impossible to film with newborn twins and a toddler.
I highly suspect that we did not see Meghan with her daughter much because of where they are filming. California has the tightest child labor laws, especially in the entertainment industry. It is no coincidence that both Jon & Kate + 8 and Dance Moms got their start in Pennsylvania (meanwhile the Octomom didn’t get one – she lives in California). They really don’t have any laws in Penn.
I think the maximum MKE’s daughter could be under filming lights was 20 minutes per DAY at her age, per California state law. It is why they hire multiples in more scripted TV. It really hasn’t been tested in the courts, but it could be that the producers didn’t want to risk it. I bet that is why she had to find a nanny. (Besides, she and Jim can afford one – why the fuck shouldn’t she hire help?)
I stopped watching OC years ago except by chance or desperation, but Meghan was the only one I liked.
Best news I’ve heard all week. Good riddance. She is not a nice person. She is self-centered, self-righteous, self-important and a phoney.
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Amen you said it like I think it I am doing the Happy dance the wicked witch is gone.
Ding Dong!!!!! she’s dead 🙂
She started to grow on me too and I enjoyed having her there. I could really do without Vicki and Tamra. I just can not stomach their faces one more season.I would really like to see all new people that are actually friends and maybe more that are in their 30’s (not PUMP 30’s, but real 30 somethings) to broaden relatability. But, since Vicki was kept after the cancer scam, I would imagine she is never going anywhere. Bye RHOC 🙁
MKE lives in a bubble. I cringed when I read ” I told Jimmy I was finished he urged me to take a couple weeks to think on it’. My gut feeling tells me that he is happy with her being busy with the show and living in OC part time so he can still have his alone time. I am sorry but that pic of them with the chalkboard is just too cheesy. Glad to see she is leaving, at least for her children’s sake. I want them to bring in a new HW that blows a ton of money on clothes, plastic surgery, vacations, cars, etc. Just not another dull and pretentious HW like Peggy.
I can’t believe that Megan thought that anyone cared THAT MUCH about her to write that long winded explanation. Seems like she’s trying to convince herself of all the reasons why she must leave.
Now that is so Funny I spit out my pop .. as if the viewers really care that much to know the whole story. Majority knew she was done any way it came as No surprise to me. I assume you either but now it is in writting LOL
Delusions of importance and celebrity.
Figured she wouldn’t be back since the babies are due around the same time as filming. Best of luck Meghan to you and your family.
There were several articles that came out last month saying Lydia and Peggy were both fired. I don’t know if it’s just rumors, but I believed it. There were also rumblings Megan was going to be let go. So, this might be some preemptive active or damage control on her part.
NO ONE CARES!!
This is code for… i think my husband is cheating, so he’s on a shorter leash now.
That really made me laugh out loud. He isn’t known for being a very good supportive right there by her side type.
I want to know who wrote MAKE #homewrecker. I’d love to know what happens when she crosses that person’s path. St. Louis is small, I can only hope it happens sooner than later. She’s going to find out what it’s like to be dumped for a newer, younger blonde.
Sorry about the snarkiness.
why be sorry Kelly was saying Meg was Jim’s mistress and the wife he was with while Meg was in picture was suppose to be a RealHousewife Meg stole that from her.
Exactly. MKE seems to have selective memory about her relationship history with Jim. Karma’s a bitch or so I’ve heard.
Poor wittle Meghan. It must be so exhausting being married to a millionaire, and having to film lunches with her gal pals, traveling first class to Europe, and attending cocktail parties. My heart breaks for how hard she works while I’m at an actual job that doesn’t pay enough so I get to work two jobs. I inow my 69 year old mother who works full time would also feel pity and concern for a 30 something who is too tired to continue to do lunch and shopping days. I have nothing against wealthy folk. Just those who pretend their pampered and luxury filled life is a a chore.
But she is doing something so original that has never been done before like being pregnant and having a baby while “working ” she has to be so exhausted like she says watching her full time nanny raise her kid…but oh wait she wakes up to breast feed her! Oh wow no one has ever done that! I guess she does deserve time off and the right to complain how exhausted she is! Ugh please
Seriously considered having a glass of champagne this morning at 7am when i heard the news. She brought nothing to the show and i was tired of seeing her get pregnant and have babies. She latched onto to Tamra and Shannon and become invisible behind them in the process.
My only concern is Dubrow replacing her. That might even be worse. No one wants hear how rich you are and how perfect your life is lady. No one cares about your”porte-cochere” woman.
Another one who cannot stand to live in a premade home? Another rich person who has to build her “dream home”?
It won’t be in St. Louis, more like in the far suburbs on formerly pristine forest land.
Never understood her hunger for instant importance. Esp coming from the Midwest, where you earn your stripes with volunteer work. And good old fashion kindness. I can’t even with the candle line. The only people I know making money with scented things are the stick incense sellers who deliver to gas stations.
I bet her “dream home construction” is a bid to get a Bravo show of her own.
Listen i can’t stand the girl but i think wanting to build her own house might have something to do with her seeing ghosts in her current house.
Crazy i know but she recently detailed the experience on her blog if your ever bored and want a laugh.
Thanks! I will check that out. I need to know when she plans her assault on STL.
Bad news for MKE, spirits can attach to a person. Hmm I wonder who is on the Other Side and wants to bother her.
Really good points Kathy D. I’m guessing their current home is $1 million plus dollars here in St. Louis. Also, the idea of Andy doing a home building type show here is thought provoking!
Her explanation that it is SO HARD to “work” film a tv show a few months out of the year while pregnant and/or with a baby is super annoying. and she had a full-time nanny. I worked pregnant and with a baby and a baby and a toddler. Her working while having a baby was her whole storyline how hard it was. Millions of women do it every day and have been for centuries. Her whole attitude that she is doing something so crazy and difficult just shows what an idiot she is.
Her stupid tag line of something along the lines of her life so hectic with a puppy and baby was so stupid. Her mention in her letter quitting the show of how she woke up to breast feed her baby at night then got up for work the next day is yet another of her stupid comments trying to sound like she does so much more than any other mother on the planet like it has never been done before. She is an idiot. Millions of mothers feed their children and don’t brag or complain about it non stop like her. Good bye. Glad she is off tv.
And yep Megan being a mom is exhausting. Like you said over and over and over. Just imagine doing it without your husband’s millions of dollars, a REAL job and without a full time nanny!! *gasp* such bullshit going on about being exhausted. Try being a real full time mom with a job and without a Nanny! Shut up MKE
LOVE LOVE LOVE Meghan. Cannot stand Lydia and Vicki. Fast forward when they are on.
Um I don’t feel sorry for her. Most women don’t have a full time live in nanny who will “follow” them to hair and make-up and the OC Housewife “job.” I was so jealous that they got to go to Iceland. How tiring is was for her…smh. She had a nanny with her to pull her boob out and latch on her baby girl. I agree TT, this does mess up Jim’s flow. Poor guy will have to be a new Dad again. Let’s hope they are happy–they went through a lot to produce their children. What Meghan said about Andy is funny because Andy his a Cardinals Superfan and he is awestruck by Jimmy and is just kissing ass to get in with the Cards. Meghan is too vapid and obtuse to see Andy’s motives. Bye Meghan. I would like to see Peggy on RHONJ. I think she could fight with Kim D and Danielle.