Real Housewives of New York City to have its first openly queer housewife
Jenna Lyons will soon make history as the first openly LGBTQ+ housewife to appear in the main cast of the Real Housewives of New York City.
The designer, who served as both President and Executive Creative Director of J. Crew, also becomes the second openly queer housewife in the franchise’s history.
She follows Julia Lemigova who was the first on Peacock’s Real Housewives of Miami reboot in 2021. In 2011, when Lyons was 43-years-old, the New York Post published an article suggesting that she was dating a woman a few weeks after it was announced that she was divorcing her ex-husband, Vincent Mazeau. “The part that was the most harmful was not necessarily about me, but the people around me.
I would have wanted to have a more elegant, certainly more private approach,” she explained to The Cut a decade later. “I still don’t know: Am I gay, am I bi?
