The Valley’s Kristen Doute is opening up about sex with Luke Broderick after baby.
“I mean, we’re trying. It’s just hard,” Kristen, 43, exclusively shared with Us Weekly while celebrating season 3 of Bravo’s hit reality show. “It’s not like I don’t find him to be essentially the most attractive person on the earth, which I do, or that I don’t want that for us. But I’m just drained on a regular basis, and I’m in survival mode. I’m just hyperfocused on [our baby] Kaia.”
Through the season 3 premiere of The Valley on Wednesday, April 1, viewers watched Kristen’s fiancé divulge heart’s contents to costar Jesse Lally about life after becoming a dad.
“Our relationship is totally lacking intimacy, which is hard,” Luke shared within the episode. “She shuts down every advance. At what point do you stop trying?”
During a lunch date with Nia Sanchez, Kristen also admitted that she hasn’t had a date night together with her man in nearly three months and acknowledged that she isn’t in love together with her body after giving birth.
“We’ve at all times had a healthy sex life,” she explained in a confessional interview. “But sex made a baby, and sex doesn’t exist.”
In a separate interview with Us, Luke acknowledged that things have improved since filming wrapped.
“You understand, it’s a roller-coaster becoming recent parents,” he shared. “I hope all recent parents can discover with that. It’s still an up-and-down thing. We do improve. We move past things and something else comes up. So, overall, yes, things have improved.”
As for wedding planning, Luke said there haven’t been any major updates since welcoming a baby. That doesn’t mean a special ceremony isn’t going to occur in the long run.
“Ball’s in her court. I actually have also put a line within the sand that I’m a tough no on a marriage that’s going to cost six figures before we now have a house that we own,” he explained. “In order that’s my line.”
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Through all of the ups and downs of life, each Luke and Kristen are pleased to have the support of their close friends Nia and Danny Booko.
“Nia and Danny, all my friends which have had babies, women online are super supportive,” Kristen shared with Us. “Our relationship took a back seat, but we all know that that’s something we now have to place more energy into.”
The Valley airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Stream recent episodes the following day on Peacock.