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Chapter 1: What was Bronwyn's experience becoming a housewife?
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Chapter 2: How did Bronwyn and Todd meet?
We love that. In adulthood, did you go to college, not go to college?
Yeah, I went to BYU super unsuccessfully or really successfully depending on. I got kicked out. You got kicked out? I got kicked out of BYU, yeah. For what?
Did you hook up with a boy?
Well, I mean, I left pregnant. So yes on that. But pretty much.
Did he also get kicked out? No. Sexist.
That is so fucked up.
That's fucked up.
I mean, I hear things are different there. I'd be surprised. No, he did not. The list of things I didn't get kicked out for is probably shorter than the list of things I did. I tried to throw like mini sorority parties. I used to, I made this one guy who wanted to go on a date with me, buy me a pet chick, which apparently you're allowed to have a dyed pink baby chick in your apartment.
I definitely, I have hundreds of parking tickets. At BYU, you have to wear certain clothes to go in the testing center. And I would push that boundary every time.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Bronwyn face as a single mother?
I'll go against the grain and say I think the producers and editors do a really fair job. I don't know who else says they don't. I know that's always like people regret things they've done on TV and then try to say, oh, I was edited badly. It came out of my mouth. They should play it for sure. Yeah.
I love that you say that.
Love that. Okay. So you, was this your boyfriend in college?
Yeah. Okay. So even from there, see, this is going to be a disaster of a story to tell. I thought he was my boyfriend. When I found out I was pregnant, he was shocked that I thought he was my boyfriend. There was definitely other girls he was seeing. So it's a lot to process at once.
Classic situationship. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know in 2005 were situationships. Like that wasn't a hashtag. That wasn't a thing yet. No. And definitely not in Provo, Utah.
So, wow. So you found out you're pregnant and you found out that your boyfriend was not your boyfriend.
He was not serious about me. He's not serious about you. No.
So you open up and you kind of say like him and his family were very much like, this is not something we want to do. Yeah. Your family was on board or not on board?
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Chapter 4: How does Bronwyn balance her personal life with reality TV?
Well, that's, you know, television.
Live TV, yeah. We have some moms who are like, I'm trying to listen to this in the car with my kids. Can we slow down on the F-bombs? And we're like, yeah, we're so fucking sorry. I mean, sorry.
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There we go. I was kind of worried, like, how they would relate to each other. And actually, I find myself being the odd one out more and more. Gwen and Todd are very close. They're kind of the same person. And they both really are sick of my shit.
So they really have bonded almost from the jump. Yeah. And how old was Gwen when Todd came into her life?
She was just turning eight because I still was taking Gwen to church at that point. I was still taking Gwen to Mormon church. So Gwen got baptized in the Mormon faith. And you do that at eight. And that was the first time Todd met my whole family was when it came to Gwen's baptism. Which was a wild ride.
How old were you and how old was he when you guys met?
Okay, so I would have been 27 and Todd would have been, I'm trying to think back, Todd would have been 54, 55. What's the age gap? We're 26 years apart. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What is the dynamic between Bronwyn and her daughter Gwen?
We do not have a prenup. And it's not like, oh, we don't have a prenup because we have a postnup. We don't have a postnup either. And it's not like, oh, we don't have a pre or postnup because he has trust. No, it's all mutual. It's all shared. Yeah. So you're rich. Yeah.
You're rich.
You're so rich. I'm going to sugar baby somebody one day.
Hell yeah. Or sugar mama.
We're going to flip the script on this. Yeah. Season 17. Bronwyn has a 26 year younger lover. Yeah. Here we go.
I've known you for a few minutes. I already can tell you're pretty down to earth.
I went to work two days after I had a baby and everyone was calling me a whore at the Mormon church. Like I've seen some things.
And Lisa pretends to be wealthy.
Oh, shade.
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Chapter 6: How does Bronwyn view her relationship with Lisa?
Editors know Bronwyn did not know what was to come. Too late to change the dog's name. So we named him Francis. Yeah. And then he was really quirky. He had a lot of dog. He like was scared of other dogs and he'd been abused. And we lived in this condo in San Francisco and it was just this disaster trying to have him out and about on the street in San Francisco.
And somebody gave us our dog Claire as a puppy thinking if he had a friend, he would like an emotional support dog.
for my dog and of course when we had two they had to be frank and claire and then just spiraled out of control since then yeah dog seven eight nine ten maybe we'll do succession who from succession is gonna let me down now you know hopefully not but you're given enough time they always do we're kind of jumping all around here but i do want to go back and i want to yes i just want to obviously the father of your daughter passed away yes you found out via facebook
via Facebook's, a mutual friend had just reposted his obituary.
It just came up in my timeline as I was scrolling. What was that initial feeling?
I think I was so surprised. He was young at the time and we had no contact. So it's very shocking. And it feels like a real, an abrupt stop, right? To break up with somebody, to not see them. I always had this idea in the back of my mind that he and Gwen would have a relationship in the future. I didn't have a paradigm in which her dad would never have a relationship with her.
I think I really have had a lot of therapy at that point and continuing since then. And I always felt like maybe he wasn't ready for responsibility then. Maybe he told some untruths to hide himself at that point. And it was really hard. It's always hard to take that first step in the right direction when you've been going the wrong direction. But I thought it was coming.
So this felt like a brick wall, right? We're never going to fix it now. And just so, so, so much sadness for Gwen. She was very little at the time. I mean, this is, okay, I'm going to be really honest. And also a little bit of relief for myself. Like I never have to share her. We never have to do this custody thing. I know that sounds really awful, but I'm putting myself on reality television.
I'm putting myself on your podcast. I'm going to be honest with you.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Bronwyn have about the Bravo franchise?
I've been telling Gwen since she was little. Since she was a baby, we used all the grown-up words for everybody's anatomy. And she called adults by their first names. And I mean, she grew up with a single mom who was not ready to be a parent. I made a lot of mistakes.
But I just always told her from the very beginning, even when she couldn't understand, super little when we'd talk about moms and dads or whatever at two and three years old. And I'd say, and you have a daddy who's not alive. And he wasn't here when mommy had you. And I always felt like if it wasn't a shock, it couldn't be hurtful.
And that's something I really had to learn later as Gwen grew up is that it's always hurtful, no matter how you were told, no matter how a part of your DNA it is. There's nothing I was ever going to do that was going to make up for that absence. Yeah. There is no right way to handle it.
Yeah.
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