RHOC’s Gina Kirschenheiter has moved into a modern $1.7m Orange County home with boyfriend Travis Mullen and their 6 kids, The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal.
The Bravo star is moving on up after years of catching strays from fans and her fellow Housewives for previously living in a casita and a townhouse.
Gina, 41, even had to temporarily separate from her longtime boyfriend, Travis, because the couple was unable to find an affordable home that could fit all six of their kids.
The RHOC star is mom to kids Nicholas, Sienna, and Luca from her previous marriage to ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter.
While Travis is dad to three kids of his own, two daughters, Presley and Bennett, and a son named Joseph, with his ex-wife, Meghan Mullen.
However, the couple was able to find a spacious pad they can now call home in the family-friendly neighborhood of Mission Viejo in Orange County.
Earlier this year, Gina, Travis, and the kids moved into a $1.7 million modern farmhouse that’s complete with five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
While they did not purchase the home, they are renting the already-furnished 2,800-square-foot house for $8,000 a month, real estate records show.
The bright kitchen comes with a walk-in pantry, large island, white cabinets with a matching refrigerator, quartz countertops, and grey octagon backsplash.
Large windows add tons of natural life to the space, but in photos of the listing, rows of neighboring two-story houses can be seen peering in from the closely built development.
On the first floor, in addition to the kitchen and living room, is a bedroom with an attached bathroom.
The second floor features a guest suite that includes a loft which can be used for an additional bedroom – or an office, playroom, or media center.
Gina and Travis can cozy up in the massive primary suite that includes a large walk-in closet.
While their home has a small backyard that only features a concrete area and a space for artificial turf, the development offers a resort-style pool, community garden, fitness centers, parks, and a clubhouse.
The two-story house also has a full two-car driveway, two-car garage, and a small front yard that also features artificial grass.
The home is just a short drive from Irvine, Dana Point and Newport Beach – where the majority of RHOC films.
In a video tour for Bravo, Gina boasted about her new home, saying: “Honestly the biggest and most amazing thing about being in this new house is the space.
“Because lord knows that we needed it. This is a lot of house and I love it!”
She walked into the shared family space, saying: “With the six kids we’re always running around, having this really big kitchen really makes our life just so easy.
“Honestly, one of my favorite things about the house, it seems so simple, but this is the first home that I have had a pantry.
“It’s a whole room for my snacks!”
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While walking upstairs, she said of her private space with Travis: ”A lot happens in our bedroom, I wanted it to be tranquil and beautiful and earthy.
“But, then obviously we have our dogs,” she continues, motioning to the large kennels in the corner of the room.
“And Travis also works in our room. And it actually, it kills me every day.
“And I want the viewers to see this so that I can show it to him so that he feels shamed so that he cleans up his desk,” she quipped.
Gina is starring on the current season of Real Housewives of Orange County – which airs Thursdays on Bravo at 8 pm EST.
She stars alongside BFF Emily Simpson, as well as Tamra Judge, Heather Dubrow, Katie Ginella, Jennifer Pedranti, and Shannon Beador.
SCIENTISTS have been shocked to find an extremely rare tooth of a dinosaur from millions of years ago in a shallow Southern creek.
The fossil was identified as belonging to a hadrosaur, a group of massive mammals that lived on land — but the tooth was found in an area that would have been underwater during the age of dinosaurs.
The “very rare, 84 million-year-old hadrosaur dinosaur tooth” was found in Shark Tooth Creek in western Alabama, according to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
A group with the museum was on a summer trip looking through the local creek when they stumbled across the distinct artifact.
Dr. John Friel, the director of the museum, said he was surprised to find the tooth in a bed of gravel while accompanying the activity.
“I have been doing these trips for the past ten years, but this was the first time I have ever found a dinosaur fossil,” Friel told McClatchy News affiliate Miami Herald.
Friel said when he first picked the tooth up, he thought it might just be an oddly shaped piece of bone.
Shark Tooth Creek, about 50 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa, is a popular spot for visitors to hunt for fossils and oyster shells.
The area is full of fossilized teeth dating back more than 60 million years, when most of Alabama was covered by shallow oceans full of sea creatures.
So it’s not unusual to find a piece of shark tooth or bone on the level that used to be the bottom of the ocean — but then Friel took a closer look.
“However, when I turned it over and saw that it had a shiny enameled surface with a distinctive texture, I was fairly certain it was a tooth,” Friel said.
Friel and two university paleontologists confirmed it appeared to be the base of a hadrosaur tooth, over a half-inch long.
But during the time they were alive, hadrosaurs weren’t anywhere near the area that is now known as Alabama.
The water cuts through rock that “formed roughly 84 million years ago when this part of Alabama was submerged under the sea,” Friel said.
The area was likely entirely underwater at the time the dinosaur would have been alive.
Hadrosaurs were duck-billed, herbivorous dinosaurs that spent most of their time on land, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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The fast-running species could grow up to 50 feet long and had hundreds of teeth.
The toothy surprise gave Friel a chilling clue as to what happened to the hadrosaur.
“All of the dinosaur fossils discovered in Alabama are thought to be of dinosaurs that died and were then washed out to sea where they were likely scavenged by sharks or other marine creatures before they were fossilized,” Friel said.
However, the mystery remains as to whether the dinosaur died before or after being washed out — or dragged — to sea.
Friel didn’t immediately return The U.S. Sun’s request for comment.
The tooth was added to the museum’s collection.
