Kristen Doute on the ‘Bittersweet’ Vanderpump Rules Shakeup and Her Own Happy Ending

glamour.com:

fans. Kristen Doute—the show’s iconic yet at times controversial former star—announced her pregnancy mere hours before news broke that Bravo would be the entire cast for its .VPR fans went positively feral over the way the two announcements aligned, with many crowing that Doute either the whole thing or had, essentially, become the to rule them all, playing the show’s Game of Thrones-like politics to come out on top.But Doute, 41, says she doesn’t see it that way.

She had no idea what was coming when she announced—via a exclusive, natch—that she and fiance Luke Broderick are expecting their first child.“It was a complete coincidence,” she tells Glamour.It’s been a long and winding road for Doute ever since the show premiered in 2013, back when she was still an aspiring actor and model.

Doute soon became one of the show’s stars and main driver of plot lines, from her bid to prove her ex, , was a cheater, to her precarious employment at SUR, and off and on friendships with co-stars Stassi Schroeder and Katie Maloney.

After her contract for VPR was not renewed in after she received criticism for calling a police tip line on a Black coworker, Doute spent a year or two away from television.