Lisa Vanderpump.Photo: Tibrina Hobson/Getty
Life is smelling a little sweeter forLisa Vanderpumpthese days.
Not only is the reality star and restaurateur about to become a grandmother, she recently partnered with Febreze on a project that bridges her love of animals with her penchant for the finer things in life: a touch-activated fabric spray calledFebreze Unstopables TOUCH Fabric Refresherthat, for her, eliminates the odor of her many dogs on her furniture.
“I love for my house to smell beautiful,” Vanderpump, 60, tells PEOPLE. “I’m cooking, I’ve got sofas in the kitchen, I’ve got dog beds here and there … [my home], Villa Rosa, is really my sanctuary and I love my things to feel clean. It really does work.”
Keeping her home tidy — and COVID-safe — is a huge priority for the formerReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar as sheprepares to welcome her first grandchildin less than three months.
“It’s very happy news for us after losing my brother, my mother and Giggy in the last three years — it’s a blessing,” Vanderpump says of daughter Pandora’s pregnancy. “I love children, I love being a mother … it’s such welcome news for us.”
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“I got my hands on them, though they weren’t part of filming too much,” she shares. “But they are beautiful babies, beautiful mothers. I’m very, very happy for them.”
Vanderpump has kept safety standards high onRulesand her other series —Vanderpump Dogs,Pooch PerfectandOverserved— as well as in her restaurants, where she and husband Kenrecently announced patrons must be vaccinatedor produce negative COVID-19 test results to enter.
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“A lot of people welcome that to keep others safe,” she says. “I’ve had a few people call me the Gestapo or things like that, but I’m a pro-vaxxer and worry about people who can’t be vaccinated because they’re at risk.”
Sharing that the community of West Hollywood has been “incredible” to her restaurants and bars SUR, Pump and Tom Tom, Vanderpump says she feels “lucky” to have made it through the pandemic with her businesses mostly intact.
“A lot of our friends went out of business, and to see that is devastating, when people put their life and heart and soul into it,” she says of restaurant closures that swept the nation. “You can’t be ambivalent about the restaurant business, you have to be in it 1,000 percent, and a lot of people lost everything.”
She also has another venue underway in Las Vegas — a Parisian-themed eatery set to open in Caesars Palace later this year — and feels fortunate to be seeing the other side of what’s been “a really, really rough three years as a family,” she says.
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” she adds. “Life’s not easy — even though sometimes I may make it look easy, it’s not. But we’re getting there.”
source: people.com
