{"id":2504439,"date":"2026-07-16T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2504439"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:07:12","slug":"lindsay-hubbard-on-how-motherhood-healed-her-amid-mom-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lindsay-hubbard-on-how-motherhood-healed-her-amid-mom-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Hubbard on How Motherhood Healed Her Amid Mom Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/lindsay-hubbard\/\"><b>Lindsay Hubbard <\/b><\/a>is opening up about her transformative experience as a new mom, detailing how her 19-month-old daughter, Gemma, helped her face her own relationship with her mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI look at [my daughter] and I\u2019m like, \u2018I could never walk away from her,\u2019\u201d Lindsay, 39, exclusively reveals in the latest <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lindsay-hubbard-on-dating-summer-house-drama-and-motherhood\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Us Weekly <\/i>cover story<\/span><\/a>. \u201cI thought I would be, like, the disciplinarian, the tough love mom, but I am such a sucker for this girl. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh no, she has my number,\u2019 and she\u2019s a year-and-a-half old. I\u2019m like, \u2018God, she knows how to manipulate me already, and it works every time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <i>Summer House <\/i>star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/summer-houses-lindsay-hubbard-gives-birth-to-her-1st-baby\/\">welcomed Gemma in December 2024<\/a> with a past partner. The now-exes split shortly after Gemma\u2019s arrival and have since remained dedicated to amicably coparenting their daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Lindsay chronicled her life with Gemma on season 1 of\u00a0 <i>In the City, <\/i>she also opened up about her estrangement from her mom and expressed that the pair had no plans to reconcile. (Lindsay was raised primarily by her aunt Rhonda after her mom left when the Bravo star was a child.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lindsay-hubbard-on-dating-summer-house-drama-and-motherhood\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/lindsay-hubbard-on-dating-summer-house-drama-and-motherhood\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Lindsay Hubbard Talks Dating, Cast Drama and Her &#8216;Summer House&#8217; Return<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFor years, \u201cActivated Lindsay\u201d was something Summer House viewers braced themselves for. Now, they can\u2019t get enough. After a decade of unforgettable feuds, messy breakups and some of reality TV\u2019s most iconic one-liners, Lindsay Hubbard is finally having the last laugh. The star is in the midst of a full-blown renaissance as fans who once [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI love that I had a daughter. I think it did heal certain wounds in my heart that weren\u2019t fully closed up through therapy,\u201d Lindsay told <i>Us. <\/i>\u201cI think that it\u2019s beautiful that I was able to mend some things within myself just by having my little baby girl, and it validated and made me feel justified in my decisions of not pursuing a relationship with my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:149.9%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-4377879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-NUP_210798_01466.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Bravo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Lindsay, her mom has not reached out to her in the wake of her reality TV success.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lindsay-hubbard-reflects-on-past-hardships-future-on-summer-house\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/How-Summer-House-Lindsay-Hubbard-Will-Use-Past-Hardships-to-Raise-Her-Daughter-02.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C1440px%2C813px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"How Summer House's Lindsay Hubbard Will Use Past Hardships to Raise Her Daughter\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lindsay-hubbard-reflects-on-past-hardships-future-on-summer-house\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">How Summer House&#8217;s Lindsay Will Use Past Lessons to Raise Her Daughter<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAs Summer House\u2018s Lindsay Hubbard prepares to become a first-time mom, she is trusting the process that allowed her to get to this transformative point in her life. In an exclusive interview for Us Weekly\u2019s Reality Stars of the Year issue, Hubbard, 38, who\u2019s one of our honorees, shared her positive outlook on the past [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019m sure she pays attention, but I\u2019m fine with it,\u201d the reality TV star acknowledged. \u201cI worked through all that. I started therapy, basically, after we filmed season 1 of <i>Summer House.<\/i> I was like, \u2018They\u2019re really getting deep,\u2019 and I started realizing through filming that there was certain things that I probably needed to go to therapy and work through in a bigger way, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/in-the-citys-lindsay-hubbard-cries-over-abandonment-issues\/\">a lot of that was abandonment<\/a> and \u2026 the way it shows up for women is different than the way it shows up for men.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Lindsay has accepted that she \u201cprobably will never fully get through\u201d her mom\u2019s abandonment, therapy has helped her move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s now a matter of how I deal with it, recognize it, communicate it and react to it,\u201d she said. \u201cI think, given my history with my mom, I am able to understand things I don\u2019t want to do and show up for my daughter in ways that I was missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more from Lindsay pick up the new issue of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/magazineshop.us\/collections\/us-weekly\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Us Weekly<\/i><\/span><\/a>, on newsstands now.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Hubbard is opening up about her transformative experience as a new mom, detailing how her 19-month-old daughter, Gemma, helped her face her own relationship with her mother. \u201cI look at [my daughter] and I\u2019m like, \u2018I could never walk away from her,\u2019\u201d Lindsay, 39, exclusively reveals in the latest Us Weekly cover story. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2504440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,25404,30379],"class_list":["post-2504439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-exclusive","tag-exclusive-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lindsay-Hubbard-on-How-Motherhood-Healed-Her-Amid-Mom-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504441,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504439\/revisions\/2504441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}