Real Housewives of Orange Countystar Emily Simpson has a long list of accomplishments.
She’s graduated college and law school.
She’s passed two bar exams.
She’s welcomed three kids and helped raise a total of five along with her husband, Shane.
But Emily Simpson is not one to rest on her laurels.
Here’s a look at how she went from country girl to OC TV star over 40-plus years.
“As a child, my mother cried a lot,” she said.
“She talked a lot about my father and blamed him for all of her troubles.”
Given her past, Emily is eternally grateful that her children have not had the same fate.
“All we had was each other,” Emily told the newspaper.
“We had each other’s backs our whole lives.”
This, apparently, is part of why Emily Simpson still makes annual trips back to Middletown, Ohio.
“I feel I’m not jaded by the opulence of Orange County,” she said.
noting that she’s held onto her “Midwest values.”
Notably, Emily’s sister, Sara, didn’t stray far from home and lives nearby in Waynesville.
Adding even more to her Mellencamp-esque Midwestern motif, Emily was, of course, a high school cheerleader.
A fact we learned… on Instagram (viaBravo).
“Love that early 2000s chunky highlight look,” she commented with a couple of crying-laughing emojis.
She then moved on to the Thomas Jefferson School of Law from 2003 to 2005.
The school laterlost its national accreditationin 2019.
“The law school I GRADUATED from IS accredited … You’re a law school [dropout].
But thanks for playing,” she said.
Lesson learned: Don’t talk trash to Emily Simpson.
(Her husband, Shane, as you may remember, failed his first time out).
After passing the bar, Emily worked full time as an attorney.
As of October 2019, she has worked as a copyright lawyer in Orange County, according toBravo.
Her first husband was a Marine who was rarely home, and the marriage barely lasted five years.
Emily was, in fact, one of her own first clients.
“Was it ‘me-too’-y?”
hostAndy Cohenasked Emily onWatch What Happens Livewhen trying to find out who made the first move.
Or, rather, until he asked her to marry him.
And Emily went for it.
She and Shane married a few weeks later.
“We will move back to Utah eventually … “Happy #throwbackthursday to when life was much simpler,” she wrote in the post’s caption.
It was hard to sit back and watch and I was perfectly capable of doing it.”
And in February 2013, Annabelle was born.
In 2015, the Simpsons wanted another child, and they asked Sara again.
“Hell no.”
This time, she carried twin boys Luke and Keller, who were born in 2015.
Emily Simpson joined Real Housewives during a midlife crisis
People handle turning 40 in different ways.
Some get plastic surgery.
Some buy sports cars.
Some audition for reality TV shows and turn into celebrities.
No implants anymore."
The secret to Emily’s success?
