![]() “It’s a wonderful experience to be with strong women,” she says. Overall, the experience has been good, Vargas says. Given how the housewives throw ’em back, it will surely make her popular come happy hour. She’s also got a side business to debut later this year, Vargas vodka. “I can educate myself on what’s out there and then know what’s needed instead of just diving in and trying to build something that I know nothing about.” Why don’t I just raise funds for them because that’s what I’m good at,’” Vargas says. “I’m thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s a current ecosystem out there that needs help. The coronavirus pandemic has temporarily turned her focus to fundraising to provide food for existing animal rescue groups. Her goal is to launch an organization called We Care Rescue Ranch somewhere in Orange County to work with animals deemed unadoptable in order to rehabilitate them and find them homes. Why the power of Barbie, Taylor and Beyonce should worry Trump Koda was there for me all through my divorce.” “I want to help animals because my dogs and my animals have always been there for me through thick and thin. “When I was finalizing my divorce and going to trial, I thought, What do I want to do next,” she says. Vargas co-founded and ran the music streaming company Edge Music, but her latest passion, which gets a bit of air time in the premiere, is animal rescue. “So frankly, when this opportunity came about, I said, ‘Well, whatever, I’m already out there.’ “I was looking for something to distract my mind and have fun with,” Vargas says, adding that she already felt exposed by the divorce process. One thing she thought about as she made her decision to join the show was the fact that her three-year-long journey through “a very, very difficult divorce” was still not finished at that point. “And I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god, she’s gonna bite me? What does she do? Does she sprout fangs?’” “Everybody told me, ‘Oh my god, be super-nervous when you meet her,’” she says of Beador. Kelly and the other newer housewives - Emily Simpson, Gina Kirschenheiter and Braunwyn Windham-Burke - were easy to meet, and even Shannon, who’d given those three a tough time in their first seasons, was a peach, Vargas says. ![]() “Knowing that and asking around, I was very excited to meet all of them because it takes some serious (moxie) to put yourself out there and be as bold and bright and beautiful as they are.” “The women on the show are extremely strong and smart,” she says. ![]() With two of the three gone, and Vargas exhibiting an entirely likable personality in the season premiere, she says all went smoothly for her. In past seasons, the Tres Amigas - Vicki, Tamra and Shannon - have been the slowest to welcome a new housewife into the skinny margarita sisterhood of the show. I was a little nervous because I did watch one of the shows. “I just said, ‘You know what, I want to do this,’” she says. Around the time Vargas got the gig, she decided it was time to finally watch an episode. ![]()
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