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Coming out on national television – that wasn’t easy”

“I got married very young. I met my husband when I was a teenager, and we had our first baby right away. I always knew I wanted to be a mum.

I dropped out of college and started having babies,” reality TV star turned LGBTQI activist Braunwyn Windham-Burke tells me over a Zoom call between London and California. Coming out as a lesbian 20 years into her marriage, Braunwyn is the epitome of resilience. She opens up to me about her journey toward sobriety, championing sober spaces and moving into the next phase of motherhood as a newly out, lesbian parent.

Appearing on seasons 14 and 15 of The Real Housewives Of Orange County, Braunwyn and her husband

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