Whitney Port Monica Schipper/Getty Images
Whitney Port is looking back on the moment she told now-husband Tim Rosenman about her significant credit card debt.
“When I got engaged, I remember having, like, a $35,000 credit card bill. I had known about it for a while and I was letting it rack up and was just paying, essentially, the interest each month,” Port, 38, admitted during a Wednesday, December 20, appearance on Nicole Lapin’s “Money Rehab” podcast.
The Hills alum added that her debt “felt like this huge secret” that she was “really ashamed” of. However, she knew she needed to tell Rosenman, 42, the truth.
“I told him one night, and he was definitely shocked but he was like, ‘We’ll figure it out,’” Port recalled. “I remember at the time, luckily, being able to pay it off quickly.”
Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman are everyone’s couple goals. The pair met in the mid 2000s at a birthday dinner for one of Port’s ex-boyfriend’s. “Tim was there. And I sat across from him,” she told She Knows in 2014. “I left the dinner saying to a mutual friend, ‘Oh my god. Who is that […]
Port noted that when she “started to make money in [her] early 20s” from her reality TV career, she hadn’t yet learned how to manage and save her earnings. “I spent a lot, and I think that that became this behavior of mine that I’ve tried to quell as I’ve gotten older,” she said.
In addition to sticking together through financial stress, Port and Rosenman leaned on each other when they suffered multiple miscarriages after welcoming son Sonny in 2017. After deciding to use a surrogate for baby No. 2, Port revealed during a November episode of her “With Whit” podcast that the surrogate had miscarried twice.
Port told Lapin, 39, that she and Rosenman are “an open book” when it comes to sharing their infertility struggles with the world.
It has been a difficult road to parenthood for many celebrity parents, including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. After in vitro fertilization didn’t work on the first try, Teigen wondered if she had done something wrong. “You just look for anything to blame, especially yourself,” Teigen explained to New York Magazine’s The Cut in April […]
Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman. Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Wedding Paper Divas
“There will be things we are going through in the moment that we don’t want to talk about — like certain phases of trying to have another kid and certain miscarriages that I wasn’t just live posting [about] and we keep intimate between the two of us — but for the most part everything ends up getting discussed,” she said.
Although Port and Lapin, who tied the knot in 2015, are a united force, Port noted that she’s also learned that “you don’t have to unload everything on your partner” and can instead reserve some conversations for therapy.
“[Your partner] can soak up your anxiety and your grief, and I think that, when talking to a therapist, they are not,” Port said, noting that “picking and choosing what I really need to talk to him about” has helped. “It doesn’t happen overnight, we have been married [for] eight years.”
When The Hills first debuted in May 2006, it looked a lot different than the revival, The Hills: New Beginnings. No matter what version they’re watching, fans are still hooked on the cast’s unwritten chapters. The MTV reality show, a spinoff of Laguna Beach, followed Lauren Conrad from Laguna to Los Angeles, where she moved […]
Port may be learning to work through some feelings in therapy, but having Rosenman by her side has helped her cope with the heartbreak of pregnancy loss.
“It really did bring us closer together,” Port exclusively told Us Weekly in October. “Timmy [would say], ‘This is us dealing with this. This is not you dealing with this, and this is nothing that your body did wrong.’ I feel like sometimes that’s all the partner needs to say for the woman to not feel alone.”