Paige DeSorbo had a revelation following her breakup with Craig Conover.
The “Summer House” star said she’s learned things about herself after splitting from the “Southern Charm” veteran. On the January 21 episode of her “Giggly Squad” podcast, DeSorbo noted that being in a relationship can cause one to ignore their own needs.
“I’ve only been single for a couple months, but already, just in terms of my single life [and] my own personal life…I never wanted to work out,” DeSorbo told her co-host Hannha Berner. “Obviously, you want to work out because you want to be hot or whatever. I never wanted to work out because I feel like I literally didn’t care about my body. I didn’t care if I was healthy, I didn’t care if I was strong. And then when I was single, I was like, ‘Oh no, I have to stay alive.’ You know?”
“I’ve been working out three times a week, and I haven’t even thought about it,” she added. “It was just very empowering for my own self to see like, ‘Oh, I thought I’d never be able to quit that, or I thought I’d never be able to start that up.’ And so then when you’re doing it naturally you’re like, ‘Wait, I’m way stronger than I was giving myself credit for.’”
DeSorbo announced her split from Conover on the December 30 episode of “Giggly Squad.” “Craig and I have decided to no longer be together,” DeSorbo said of the end of her three-year relationship. “No one did anything,” she added, noting that the breakup “wasn’t a bad thing” and that she hoped to remain friends with the Sewing Down South founder.
Paige DeSorbo Said Being Single in Her 30s is Different
DeSorbo was last single in her late 20s. On her podcast, the 32-year-old fashionista admitted it felt “weird” to be single at this stage of her life.
“We’re not in our twenties anymore, so not that you can’t be single like you were in your twenties, you can do whatever you want, but it’s almost like you don’t want to be,” DeSorbo said. “When I got single at 28, I was like, ‘Catch me at every single club that exists in New York City,’ and I was there. You could find me in a club. Now I’m like, I would pass away if I went to a club until 4 a.m. Like, I’d literally pass away. So, it is weird thinking of, ‘What am I going to do being single?’”
But she also shared that wintertime isn’t a bad time to be single. “It’s break-up season,” she said. “Something’s in the air and women are like, ‘Hey, you know what? No.’”
DeSorbo added that she’s happy not to have to cuddle or share a blanket with anyone right now. “If you’re also under my same blanket, I’m going to get hot,” she explained. ‘And I don’t want to get hot. You know, like I have the perfect temperature right now. Get your fricking sweaty [expletive] away from me.”
Paige DeSorbo Took Issue With the Idea of Moving to Charleston With Craig Conover
DeSorbo is a New York City girl, but during her three-year relationship with Conover the two commuted from the Big Apple to his home in Charleston, South Carolina. They talked seriously about a future marriage and children.
On January 7, Conover told fans he was “very shocked” by the split and that he was “still processing” everything. “It’s a three-year relationship, it’s your best friend who you talk to all day every day, and then they’re just gone,” he said via Instagram story. “So, you know, one day I’ll be able to talk more on it.”
While Conover was shocked by DeSorbo’s decision to be single, there were some signs she wasn’t ready to settle down. The location of the couple’s future home had always been up for debate.
On the “Southern Charm” season 10 episode “Overtures and Outbursts”—which was filmed in early 2024—Conover told his co-stars Shep Rose and JT Thomas that he was ready to take the next step in the relationship. “If it was up to me, we would just be engaged. But she changes her mind a lot about stuff, you know?” he said. “One day she’ll text me and say, ‘Let’s build a [expletive] farmhouse in the middle of nowhere,’ or like, you know, ‘I’m moving to Charleston.’ But then she’ll have a good day in New York and be like, ‘I love it up here.’”
“It gets confusing,” he added. “I think that’s life, right? It’s a bunch of decisions and compromise.”
