Lindsay Hubbard is opening up about her transformative experience as a brand new mom, detailing how her 19-month-old daughter, Gemma, helped her face her own relationship along with her mother.
“I have a look at [my daughter] and I’m like, ‘I could never walk away from her,’” Lindsay, 39, exclusively reveals in the most recent Us Weekly cover story. “I believed I could be, like, the disciplinarian, the tough love mom, but I’m such a sucker for this girl. I’m like, ‘Oh no, she has my number,’ and she or he’s a year-and-a-half old. I’m like, ‘God, she knows how one can manipulate me already, and it really works each time.’”
The Summer House star welcomed Gemma in December 2024 with a past partner. The now-exes split shortly after Gemma’s arrival and have since remained dedicated to amicably coparenting their daughter.
As Lindsay chronicled her life with Gemma on season 1 of Within the City, she also opened up about her estrangement from her mom and expressed that the pair had no plans to reconcile. (Lindsay was raised primarily by her aunt Rhonda after her mom left when the Bravo star was a baby.)
“I like that I had a daughter. I feel it did heal certain wounds in my heart that weren’t fully closed up through therapy,” Lindsay told Us. “I feel that it’s beautiful that I used to be capable of mend some things inside myself just by having my little baby girl, and it validated and made me feel justified in my decisions of not pursuing a relationship with my mom.”
Based on Lindsay, her mom has not reached out to her within the wake of her reality TV success.
As Summer House‘s Lindsay Hubbard prepares to change into a first-time mom, she is trusting the method that allowed her to get to this transformative point in her life. In an exclusive interview for Us Weekly’s Reality Stars of the 12 months issue, Hubbard, 38, who’s one among our honorees, shared her positive outlook on the past […]
“I’m sure she pays attention, but I’m superb with it,” the fact TV star acknowledged. “I worked through all that. I began therapy, principally, after we filmed season 1 of Summer House. I used to be like, ‘They’re really getting deep,’ and I began realizing through filming that there was certain things that I probably needed to go to therapy and work through in an even bigger way, and a number of that was abandonment and … the best way it shows up for girls is different than the best way it shows up for men.”
While Lindsay has accepted that she “probably won’t ever fully get through” her mom’s abandonment, therapy has helped her move forward.”
“It’s now a matter of how I take care of it, recognize it, communicate it and react to it,” she said. “I feel, given my history with my mom, I’m capable of understand things I don’t need to do and show up for my daughter in ways in which I used to be missing.”
For more from Lindsay pick up the brand new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.