The Valley’s Kristen Doute is back to blonde, and she has the before-and-after photos to prove it.
The new mom of infant daughter Kaia Lily, on September 3, shared a pair of selfies on her Instagram Stories, chronicling her hair transformation while caped and sitting in the salon chair. Kristen was solo in the first pic, giving a close-lipped smile from behind a wild head of hair, part of which contained hair foils. She captioned the post, “project milf is underway,” before a second photo showed off a new and stunning blonde mane.
In the “after” photo, Kristen captioned, “Guys!! She’s back!” smiling alongside West Hollywood hairdresser and color artist Carlos Rodriguez, who held Kristen’s long hair to show off his handiwork.
The former Vanderpump Rules SUR-ver added a face-holding-back-tears emoji to convey her feelings about the new look, which comes as Kristen and fiancé, Luke Broderick, continue to navigate life as new parents.
Kristen Doute’s hair over the years
The regular brunette has played with the light side over the years. Back in January, Kristen said she was “in loveee” with her new sun-kissed hue — while still pregnant with Kaia — sharing another pair of before-and-after snaps on her Instagram Stories.
“Hair did,” she said when flaunting her golden highlights.
Further back, when still on VPR, she had fans eating out of the palm of her hand with “funky fresh summer locks,” showcasing streaks of blonde upon her return from Turks and Caicos in 2017.
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Feeling fresh would be an asset for the new mom as she ventures into brief breaks away form baby. Recently, The Valley’s Brittany Cartwright “finally got Kristen out for a night” when — along with Brittany’s “really amazing” new man — they headed to the “At Home with Narwal” Summer Soiree in Los Angeles on August 21, according to People.
Kristen rocked a floral and flowing Bohemian-style dress that evening, dancing away as BFF Brittany filmed. As Brittany narrated, “I cannot believe it, Kristen is out with meee … First night out… Baby mama, lookin’ good.”
Kristen raised her glass high in the video post, to which The Valley’s Zack Wickham and VPR alum Scheana Shay, plus Shahs of Sunset’s Reza Farahan, showed their support of Kristen’s night on the town in the comment section.
Kristen Doute and Luke Broderick’s life today
First-time parents Kristen and Luke, who became engaged on a sunset fishing tour in Hawaii on Season 2 of The Valley, admitted to People on August 21 that wedding plans had been “on a back burner for a really long time.”
She also told Bravo’s The Daily Dish in May — about one month before Kaia’s birth — that their primary focus was on the baby. Therefore, “We’ll probably start talking about [the wedding] next year. It could happen next year, I don’t know. I don’t want to wait too long, but I think we need to settle into being parents and this whole chapter of our lives and really know what we’re doing before we try to plan anything else.”
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When that day comes, Kristen and Luke enlisted the help of Summer House alum-turned-wedding planner, Stephen McGee, to guide them on the way to the altar. As Kristen continued to People, hiring Stephen was the “biggest weight off of my chest I’ve ever felt. And then I told Luke, and Luke was like, ‘Thank god.’”
Don’t miss the latest on Kristen, including the stunning statement Andy Cohen made about her in an unseen reunion moment from The Valley’s second season.
