Kristin Cavallari Gets Candid With E! About Season 3 of VERY CAVALLARI

In advance of this week’s episode of VERY CAVALLARI airing Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on E!, executive producer and star, Kristin Cavallari discusses how Season 3 delves deeper into her personal life. Kristin explains how this season uncovers major heartbreaks from her past, shares what’s off limits for the show, and reveals what’s to come for her company Uncommon James. 1. Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I’m not really making any New Year’s resolutions, it’s more just ‘what do I want to incorporate in 2020?’ – so one thing that I really want to do is just meditate more, even if it’s just a few minutes a day. I wake up Monday through Friday at 5am, and that’s my ‘me time’, you know? My alone time to work out, and even just getting five minutes in that early in the morning after I work out, that is what I’m aiming for. But I think just setting the tone for the day is something that’s really powerful. 2. For anybody who hasn’t seen the show, how would you describe it three words? Ah okay, three words… emotional, drama-filled and fun. 3. What can we expect for the new season? Season three is a little bit more about my personal life – so the last couple of seasons of VERY CAVALLARI has been a good balance between Uncommon James and the staff, Jay and I, and everything else we have going on in our lives. But now it’s definitely more focused on my friend group, and just all of the personal stuff that Jay and I have going on. So I’m excited to share that with everybody. 4. What has been your biggest challenge this season? My biggest challenge in season three has honestly just been the heartbreak that I experienced, which will play out on the show, it’s the first few episodes really. They talk about a fall out that I have with a girlfriend, and I really battled with whether to put it on the show or not. I started this season and I wasn’t talking about it, and ultimately, I felt like I had nothing to contribute because the biggest thing going on in my life I was trying to keep secret and cover up. So I just figured this is why I’m doing a reality show, you know, it’s to share everything with the world and I’m all about being authentic and being all in, and so here we are. But now I’ve seen the first four episodes and just going back and having to watch it all again, and talking about it in interviews and everything, it’s like re-living it and it’s been hard for me. 5. And what has been the biggest highlight? The biggest highlight from season three was very cool.  I actually got to go to Italy and meet some ancestors that I didn’t even know existed. Just one of those experiences that not many people can say they’ve done. It was just such an incredible feeling to meet my dad’s first cousins, so my second cousins, and they were so warm and welcoming, they really took me in which was just incredible. 6. We have insight into your business on the show – what are your future goals and plans for your business? We have a lot of exciting things happening in Uncommon James for 2020 – the biggest thing that I’m most excited about is Vermeil. So we’re going to be launching demi-fine jewellery, so it’s 14-carat gold-plated, sterling silver and real diamonds. So these are classic timeless pieces that will last you forever, and I’m really looking forward to it because Uncommon James, which is everything I have on right now, is very much our fashion pieces, you know for our trendy girl, its costume jewellery. And so to be able to have pieces with a similar aesthetic that will last you forever is really exciting to me. 7. Do you have any plans to open up any more stores? More stores! You know I really want to read sales in Chicago for another few months, it’s off to a great start but, you know, we got lucky with holiday season, the show’s about to premiere – so that’s not really a good barometer. I really want to see how it does once the show is off the air for a little bit and see how it’s doing. But if it does well, if it consistently maintains, then I will absolutely open up another store, and I have my eyes on Dallas. 8. What’s been your experience of being both behind and in front of camera as executive producer and star of the show – is it difficult? No, it’s not difficult being an EP and being on the show, if anything it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me because I have this security blanket. But more than that, I mean I obviously love having that security blanket and being able to get things taken out [of the show] that I really want. But working with a team of people who really value my creative direction, and I actually get to have creative input on the show, has been such a great experience for me. And ultimately I’m so happy that I decided to go back to reality TV, even if it was just for that alone, because VERY CAVALLARI has been the most enjoyable show I’ve ever worked on, and so I know that when I do walk away from this show I’ll be left with a really good taste in my mouth, which wasn’t necessarily the case before. 9. Speaking of which, we know you from LAGUNA BEACH, THE HILLS, and now your own show, VERY CAVALLARI – what’s it been like growing up on reality TV? I don’t actually feel like I’ve grown up on reality TV, because, yes, you got to see my junior and senior years of high school which was tough at times because I was so young and that’s when you’re trying to figure out who you are, and you’re very vulnerable in that sense at those ages. But I was able to step away for so many years, and then I went back to THE HILLS only for two seasons when I was about 22, 23 (years old), and so I kind of feel like I’ve gone in and out of reality TV. I definitely do feel that people feel like they’ve grown up with me and they do know me to an extent, but I feel like I’ve been lucky to have breaks in between because I felt like that’s what’s kept me sane [laughs]. 10. Is there anything off limits that you won’t share on the show? Jay and I have major boundaries on VERY CAVALLARI, you can ask all the E! producers! But it’s just not me anymore at the end of the day. It was one thing on LAGUNA and THE HILLS when it was me, but now I’m a wife, I’m a mom, you know? My kids will never be on the show, they never have been, there’s just a lot of boundaries in that sense and going back to reality TV it had to be on my terms otherwise it wasn’t worth it to me. My family is the most important thing to me, and no show is worth any of that. 11. And finally, what advice would you give your younger self? My younger self, um, you know I think advice I would give is just to live in the moment. I was always so concerned about being older, you know, it was like I wanted to be 16, I wanted to be 18, I wanted to be 21 – like, just be you! Just be the age that you’re at, because now I just want life to slow down! And so it’s just kind of funny, I just wish that I would have enjoyed the moment a little bit more.