Paige DeSorbo Shares the Status of Her Dating Life 5 Months After Craig Conover Breakup-quang

The 'How to Giggle' author tells PEOPLE she's "definitely not jumping into anything serious" after splitting from the 'Southern Charm' star after three years

Bravo stars Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover at the Variety Women of Reality presented by DirectTV at Spago event on Nov. 29, 2023 in Los Angeles.

Craig Conover may have moved on since he and Paige DeSorbo at the end of 2024, but the Summer House star wants to keep the focus on her career.

“I'm definitely not jumping into anything serious right now,” DeSorbo, 32, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. “I want to focus on my career, and I want to do things when I want to do them, with who I want to do them with, so I'm just enjoying my time.”

The How to Giggle author and Conover, 36, broke up just after Thanksgiving following three years of dating. The Southern Charm star revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last month that he’s been dating someone new “and I’m really happy.”

DeSorbo, however, says she’s “definitely having fun” being single.

“I've gone on two girl trips already. I've been going out to dinner with my girlfriends all the time. I'm going on a bachelorette [party],” she continues. “I'm definitely not jumping into anything serious, but I'm definitely dating and texting back.”

Bravo stars Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo at 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' in New York City.

While DeSorbo wants to focus on her career following the release of her book How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously with Giggly Squad podcast co-host Hannah Berner, she hasn’t ruled out marriage and kids.

“I'm not standing on the side of, ‘I don't want children and I hate men. I never want to get married.’ I want to get married. I want to have a baby,” the reality star clarified. “I can't wait for that part of my life, but I want to do it when I want to do it, and I want to do it with the person I want to do it with.”

Paige DeSorbo with her book 'How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously'. 

DeSorbo acknowledges that “people are really, really mad about” her breakup, but she laughs off mean and inaccurate online comments.

“It's funny, because half the things you see online, it's just like, ‘Okay, well, you clearly don't have any of the information,’ so you can't even get in the weeds of it,” she says. “If this happened to me at 25, I don't know how I would react. I don't think I would've been strong enough. But now at 32, sometimes I'll see a mean comment and they'll absolutely eat with it, where I'm like, ‘Oh my God, they nailed it.’ I'll screenshot it and send it to my brother and my brother will be like, ‘I'm saving that.’”

Bravo stars Craig Conover and Paige Desorbo at the Cucculelli Shaheen fashion show during New York Fashion Week in New York City on Feb. 10, 2024. 

Summer House viewers can see the lead-up to her breakup playing out on the current season of the Bravo show.

“You're seeing me in real time go through emotions,” DeSorbo says. “Even watching it back for myself, I can look at my own face and know like, ‘Oh my God, my brain was spinning inside.’ I can tell when I'm over analyzing something, I can tell by my eyes that I'm thinking about something so different than what's in the conversation in front of me.”

As a result, DeSorbo doesn't understand the criticism she's received in the last few months.

“To get picked apart like, ‘She should have done this and she should have done that,’ it was happening right then. You're watching me put pieces together and go through different emotions,” DeSorbo says. “I couldn't go back and change anything. And why would I? It was real.”

Summer House airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.