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August 30, 2025 35 mins

Are sporting events the watering hole for singles looking to match? The U.S. Open Tennis Championships are happening NOW, and Kelly Bensimon and Alexia Nepola are giving you all the reasons why it's a perfect place to meet eligible single men!

From Honey Deuces to chic attire, we're breaking down the annual event and giving you the inside scoop on why it's THE place to be.

Plus, find out what makes Alexia cry when she opens up to Kelly about her personal life.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, guys, it's I Do Part two. I'm wor some
of your celebrity vns. I'm Alexi Napola and I'm joined
today by my fellow housewife, Kelly Benzim.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hi Kelly, Hi, how are you happy? End of summer? Yes?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, I feel like it's still summer for me. It's
not officially over till like October. I mean here in Miami,
I feel like it's summer all year long. But yes,
you know, we'll start getting into it in a couple
of weeks, but we'll startinly like it's fall.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're dressed for the US Open. You're ready to go
in your tennis white.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I actually have a little tennis stress because now they're
very popular. I feel like tennis fashion is super hot
right now.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
You would look so good in tennis dress too. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
They're cute. I think they're so cute.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, you'd be like, Hi, guys, let's go and have
a honeydew and my Islexi im and be like, I'm
with her whatever. The girl at the blonde is the
barbie with the I'm with her.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Speaking of tennis today, we're going to be talking about
the US Open going on in New York City right now,
and Kelly is going to give us all the information
that we need to know. For all you single ladies
that want to attend a US Open is it a
good place to meet the love of your life or
is it just a place to go off on with
your girls? You're based in New York, Kelly, so for

(01:33):
our listeners, describe what the atmosphere is like at the match.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So the atmosphere at the match is, first of all,
it's outside of New York City, so it takes a
second to get there. But the atmosphere is very colorful,
like very energetic. Everyone is really excited to be there,
and there's a lot of you know, like you said,

(02:01):
like super well dressed, you know, men and women are
like I mean, it's definitely a vibe. And it's also
it's not like next door. It's not like you walk
outside and you're like, I'm going to take a taxi there.
It's you know, it's a it's a truck to get there.
So people really really make an effort.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Amazing, you know, I feel like all those big sporting
events you know, are always like hosted outside of the city,
but you know, people really make it you know a
thing to go and you know, to attend, you know,
especially the US Open in New York and I've never been.
I would love to go so and not only to
find love, but I think just like the whole experience.
You know, First of all, I love sports, you know,

(02:38):
and I do believe that tennis is so much different,
you know, from basketball, let's say, or baseball or football.
I feel like when you go to a tennis match,
the whole a Beyonce, the people that attend, and just
everything is different. You know, It's a different sport where
I feel like basketball and football and baseball are more
like family events. And don't get me wrong, tennis can

(02:58):
be as well. But I just feel like in tennis,
it's more like you're there because you love the sport
and you you know, you're.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
A tennis fan.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
You want to you want to actually sit down and
see the match, where I feel like in basketball and
other sports, it's more like you just want to be
like everywhere, you can see it from everywhere.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
You want you know, you want to drink and you want.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
To have fun and you want to eat, and in tennis,
I just see it more like a serious sport.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I have. I've only been to one US Open. I
mean actually it wasn't even a US Open. And we
need to talk about that because in Miami we don't
have the US Open. We have the Miami Open, and
a lot of people confuse that with the US Open.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So yeah, it's very similar.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
The Miami Open and the US openers are very very similar.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Oh they're similar and different, but yeah, yes they are.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean I think one thing that like one point
that you're you're making is that when you go to
like let's say you go to a basketball game, there's
all the celebrities are on the floor or they're in
the they're in the boxes, so you can like see celebrities,
and then there's like, you know a lot of you know,
younger kids and parents kind of like you know, just

(04:06):
there with their with their families. It's not far to
get to, you know, you just like hop on a
train or hop in an uber to get there.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
But like again, like going to the US Open, I
mean it's in Queens.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
It takes a lot of time to get there, so
and it's also very expensive, so it's not like it's
not like you can just go and get like a ticket.
You can't be like at a bar and be like, hey,
I'm going to pick up there.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
You go, well, you see that's what right there?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's expensive.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, So the people, the caliber of men and women
that you're going to be meeting there are you know,
people that are you know, not afraid to spend you know,
a couple of hundred dollars on you.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Know, on tickets.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Also, like the vibe there, it's like all the activations
are very high end, you know, like the big brands
are there, and it's just like it's it's again, it's
like when you're going to like a baseball game, you're
i mean a basketball game, you're seeing the celebrities, but
all the celebrities are tucked into these boxes. So you're
just sitting next to you know, a finance guy or

(05:12):
a tech guy or and you know, everyone is kind
of like it's like democratic is like people are all
in like baseball hats and they're all, oh, oh my god,
did you see that? So it's like this very common.
You're you don't feel intimidated to talk to someone.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
So you think definately you can meet better guys. Single
women could meet better quality men out of tennis.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean yes, if you can get tickets to a
US Open, if you can get your tickets there, then
yes you will meet higher quality guys. Also, like if
you go to like you were saying before, the comparison
of like a uh, you know basketball, Like there's a
lot of guys in suits, and so a lot of
women are like when they see a guy in the suit,

(05:57):
some women are like, oh my god, I don't want
to suit, and.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Other women are like, I'm suits.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Everyone is kind of like in a vibe like sweaters
and shirts and collared shirts and polo shirts.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Like more preppy, more like lower piana, more like like
the real wealth.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Right, Like that's how I like to see it, like
coming from Miami.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Right in Miami, for example, the Miami Open, the crowd
that's there, there's a lot of like maybe you know
Latina superstars, you know, Latin celebrities, but you know, there's
also like a lot of influencers. Like do influencers like
attend the US Open? You know? I feel like Miami's
become a lot of that, Like the influencers get you know,
tickets and get invited to all these things when they

(06:37):
really can't even afford to be there. You know, they're
just there because you know they they were hired, you know,
to go, or they were given tickets. You know, Miami's
vibe was more like sexy, tropical, and it's very different,
you know. I feel the crowd that attends these things
in Miami, they comfort they go for something different, whereas
I see the US Open in New York more global.
You know, there's international people, you know, from all over.

(07:00):
There's entrepreneurs, there's you know, businessmen from Wall Street. There's
also a lot of celebrities.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
And I just think it's like a different vibe.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I just feel like I've never been, but like reading
about this, I'm like excited to go. By the way,
Martina and Julia are there, so I have my ticket already.
I could definitely go with Martina and Julia. And I've
been reading about so many celebrities you know that we've
seen that attendees. You know, the attenda you was open.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You should come, You should come, and we should go together.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
We should make it like a test, right, Like we'll
go both single girls and see how, you know how
it goes for us, Right, And they get back to
the viewers and say, you know this is what happened.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
This is the research at least for us, and we'll
share it.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I would love that if you want to come, we
will go together. So just back to like the vibe there,
there's this drink that it's called the honey deuce like deuce,
but people call it the honey dew because it's made
it's like the condiment is honeydew.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
These little these little melon balls, You're so cute.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
It sounds so good, and they were making non alcoholic ones,
so it's really fun to like and everyone's like, is
that a honey deuce or a honey dew? So that
could be kind of like what are you ordering?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know? What do you what are you going to
getting in your honeydew or deuce? People don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
So it's a fun way of like good opening line,
you know, because people don't know. And so I'm I'm
kind of like if you meet someone they're like, is
that a I would like a honeydew and they're like,
it's a deuce.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
You're like got it?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Like that guy's been here before we know him. And
also one of the things I see that like if
I tell this to my kids and to myself, Like
you never know who you're going to meet, and like,
I meet so many people and then.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Someone's like, oh my god, you single.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Someone's so single, and you meet so many different people
being in an environment, and this is a great environment
because again, like there's you're talking about, Oh my god,
like that you know that one athlete shaved his head.
Why is that guy wearing purple? Oh my, it's so
cool to see you know, Venus back playing tennis. Like

(09:04):
you said, like you know your friends Martin and there,
Like there's there's things to talk about. Like I'll be
like like literally I was there the other the other day,
and like I was with and Carl Radke and I
was like, I was like, oh my god, Carl, look
what they're wearing in Carls Like we were like having fun,
like talking about what they were wearing.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
And it was fun. It was really fun.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Do you think we need to know a little bit
about tennis?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
No, I mean there's so many things to talk about, celebrities, clothing, vibe.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, But I mean I think I think we should
be a little educated as far as you know, like
what you're there for, like who you're going for.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
You at least need to.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Know like who's playing in the matches and you know,
knowing that basic.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
I mean that's just me.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I like to do that, Like I just don't like
to show up somewhere especially. I mean, I've always been
a sport fanatic. I love baseball, I love all the sports,
and so if I would go, I would like to
have a little bit of you know, knowledge, you know
about the sport. And I think that's a good way too,
because you never know who's sitting next to you, you.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Know, and some guys think that's hot.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Some guys think it's hot like for the woman to
know about sports, And I mean, I don't care what
they think, but I like it for myself, like I
want to know, like at least you's plain. I feel
like sometimes o ladies go to these sporting events and
they're just there for that so like pick up guys
and they're really not there for the sport, and you know,
it doesn't for me, like it doesn't like look, you know,
doesn't look so sexy like for me, you know, like

(10:28):
you're just there for that. Like I like to know
what I'm there, who's playing a little bit about the sport,
and you know, I think that can also be like
you know, cute, you know, like to start a conversation
with the guy. You know.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I think guys like that.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I mean, I love that you are that engaged that
you want to know. Not everybody is like knows really
what's going on. They're just kind of like going to
have fun or they're going to like, you know, see
who's there. Like you were talking about the influencers that
there's not that many influencers. There a high ticket item
and it's not about your phone. If people are not

(11:01):
on their phone, this is like watching tennis.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
People are like, oh right, well, you know, I think
it's That's what I'm saying. Like you're sitting there and
you have like full access and you're really like absorbing
everything that's going on.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
So I love that.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I love that nobody's on their phone because I feel like,
you know, we've lost so much, you literally lose everything
if you go to a game and you're the whole
time on your phone or taking videos or taking pictures.
You know, I think people are too caught up in that.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Well people too, they're like if I if I if
it wasn't if I didn't record it, if I don't
have it on my phone. Then I wasn't there. I mean,
that's not my vibe. Like I was there. I'm seeing it.
I'm talking about it.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Wait, but do you know what love means in tennis?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Tell me, tell me it's a score.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's a score.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, absolutely, it's like forty loves right, It's not like
forty kiss my face.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's like forty.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes that I know.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
But you see that's what I mean. You need to know,
like this.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is like love, let's kiss, not the kiss can.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Do you know what loved tennis? So that's why I
was like caught off. But yeah, I know that.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
You see that. We need to know you catch the
open the game and not know that.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
So it means so forty love, So it means zero
in scoring does not. It's not the kiss camp. People
are like love and everyone kisses. No, it means zero.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh yeah, I like it. I like that more than
the kiss Camp.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
We've seen a lot of things happening with the kiss
camp lately, exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, but we don't want to see that.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah, but I'll actually be fun if they had the
kiss camp at at the tennis at the US Open.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, you know, it's funny too, because people are like, like,
do you think that going that going to the US
Open is a good place for a first date?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
And like, I'm totally on the fence about it.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Like on the one hand, I'm like, you have to
like be ready at like four thirty and then it
takes like an hour to get out there, and then
you're like having a drink and maybe having some chicken
nuggets with caviar, and it's a lot of fun things.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
But it's a very long date. So I'm like, maybe
a second date.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
It would be really good for, or like a third date,
but I feel like a first date, if you're just
meeting someone and you're spending that much time with them,
what are your thoughts?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
So I mean, the reason why I don't think that
it's a good that I would like it for a
first date is because I feel like a first date,
you really need to have more conversations, You need to talk,
you need to get to know each other. So it
depends if it's your first date with somebody that you've
already been talking to, it's it might be okay, even
if it's a lot of hours. I think that that's
actually good because you really get to know whether you

(13:45):
like that person or not, so that can work. But
if it's like a first date that you haven't had
like too much conversation with and you really don't know,
I think it could be you know, a little awkward.
And yeah, I mean that's how I feel about it.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, I totally with you.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think it could be a little awkward to be
spending that much time with someone. And by the way,
like I feel like when you're on a date, you
should be on an actual date, like how is.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Your day, not like, oh my god, did you see
that job? How was your day?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
It would be like.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Very personally, it's very like impersonal, you know, And that's why,
like I wouldn't like it for a first date, but
if it's someone that I'm dating, I think it's like
a cool, fun activity to do as a couple. And
how do you feel So the guys that go to
the US open there, I feel like there's a lot
of couples you know that send and but do you
also you know, I guess it would also be like

(14:36):
you know, single men, you know, like we talked about
you know earlier, that you know with different professions that
are just there, you know, to social network, or because
you know their company, you know, got to got the
seeds or a box, or they're there for the brand.
There's so many reasons like while they're there, and just
like single women, So as a woman, would you go
there like by yourself.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Or would you go with like a group of friends.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I mean it's a massive, massive arena. I wouldn't necessarily
go but myself. I mean I personally would not do that.
But I have seen, you know, I see single women there.
I see like, but I think it's better to go
with someone because then.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Also too, so I think that's the perfect Like if you.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
And I were together, we would be talking to people.
We wouldn't just be standing there.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I could be a wing woman also, right, we probably
just a woman, which is great.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that's what the that's the whole vibe.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
And you know, I and again it's like a really
fun environment and you meet a lot there's a lot
of interesting people. Like I literally was just there and
I met so many new people and it was just
really you know, fun. And one person was in the theater,
one person was on television, you know, one person wasn't
you know, as an actor, And I just.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Met a lot of different kinds of people.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
And it's funny because my friend of mine was like,
you have to go on RIA because there's all these
tennis people are on RIA right now because they're all
in town, Like all these pros are there.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
So what do they do? They just get on Riot
just while they're there.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, you know, it's it like tells you like their
location of where they are. So people are like in town,
you know what I mean, they're on Riot. People would
be like Alexis and.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
In town Alexis and New York.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, okay, so are you on I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Some people have recommended that, but I've never That's like
a whole different podcast, but I've never.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't. I mean I would.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean I dated an athlete, and I genuinely really
I like athletes a lot.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
I like, I feel like a women love athletes.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I like that they have discipline. That's what I like.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Discipline, That's exactly what I like as well.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
But I mean if you date like a hockey player,
like they have a certain like you can't like go out.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
They don't go out, you know, they eat the certain
same meals.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
They get massaged all the time, they work exercising, so
that would be hard. But yeah, I mean I could
date like I don't know, like a football player or something,
or tennis player.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
I don't know if they seem to feel like a.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Lot of players are married.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
It was like that hot tennis player that has the
pretty girlfriend, Paige Lorentz.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Whatever, did you do? You know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yes, yes, so yeah, I think she's fabulous and like,
I mean, I just love to see her and her fashion.
So she shows up and that she was open looking beautiful, right,
like her outfits are on point because you know, I
also feel like the women dress differently to go to
what you was open then obviously a basketball game or
a baseball game. You know, I feel like, you know,

(17:27):
they can show up elegantly and then also you know,
like sporty but like sexy, but they know exactly like
how to dress, you know, to the event.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Aren't in jeans, which is so nice too.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's like it's just nice to go to like an
event where people aren't in jeans, like you know, people
are in white jeans or in tennis swunters like you
their dresses, their main dresses, but the men aren't in
jeans and the women aren't in jeans. I mean, unless
you're working for a tennis player, then they're a you know,
at leisure. But I think it's also nice to just

(18:00):
be an environment where we're like dressed and you're like, oh, okay,
so they've put in the effort to get there. They
put in the effort to get dressed, do you know
what I mean, they're like there. It's like that's the
kind of guy that you love that.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
There's no scrubs, like it's very like you know, they're
they're putting in the effort to be.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
There, and I love that.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I got a guy that puts in the efforts.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
We like it.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
We like the guy that dress as well.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
And I feel like the us open, like I said,
is like you're going to get the best of the best. Yeah,
you know, I just not only in fashion, but I
feel like the men that are there, you know, are
all like educated men with careers, and I, like I said,
I've never been, but I'm so excited to go next year.
And you also have the fashion week going on in
New York, No, the next week.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's coming up.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I mean, I wouldn't necessarily bring a date to Fashion Week.
I would definitely bring a day to the US Open.
But if you're like, wow, it's really great, and for
the way you don't in your date, like looking at
mom and then being right and then look at you
and you're like, hi, oh, that.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Would never happen. Yeah, you know. I don't think men
belong there unless they go by themselves and then there
and that's creepy.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh my god, I'll like, yeah. I had a guy
that was like, oh my.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
He was like, can you bring me to the Victoria's
Secret Fashion Show? And I was like, yeah, we can go,
And then I'm like taking him to the Victoria's Secret
Fashion He was like, oh my god, we so great.
We're going to see all these girls. And I'm like,
not with me right, thank you so much for now
trying to like no, I'm not going to sit there
and watch you like, you.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Know, salivate over, jazz up over like a twenty year old.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
That's not happening.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Thinking is like the US SO Open Fashion Week. I'm like,
maybe next year I can do a little bit of both.
I can do the US SO big the same time.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
You have to come, but you have to come to
fashion Week obviously, but the US Opens at the same time.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's always like back to the US Open, which is
really fun.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
But another thing, you know, there is so much fun
on there and the people do dress up, and it's
interesting because this would be a good reason to go
on a date with someone that wants to go to
the US Open, because my algorithm is like, these are
the kind of guys you want to day.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Like, I mean, I'm like, I literally.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Wake up and my algorithm is like telling me all
these different kinds of guys that I should be with.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, I don't want to tell you what my algorithm says.
Who keeps a private my algorithm is it's so funny, right,
the phone like knows what like we're going through in
our lives.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
It's so crazy, and it's good in many ways, but
it's also not that great in others because it really
gets to you because like the stuff is coming up.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Starts thinking right, yeah, well wait, so my algorithm is
telling me. It says that this, and this was something
I was like, oh my god, this guy is I
can't remember his name, but I'm like, this guy is
really on point. Is that a guy who makes plans
to see you in the future to do things that
are interesting.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is A is a good guy?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh what can I tell you something? Because algorithm is
something different from yours. So a guys that makes you
he could be future faking. He could make anti promises.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
No anty promises.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Okay, hold on, like we're going get ready, put your
Tinnis whatter on.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
A lot of these guys are bleaders and they're like
love mombing you in the beginning, and they're saying, you know,
like you know, promising all these empty promises and future faking.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
So you have to be you have to be careful.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Obviously, if you do like the guy, you want to
be excited about it and you want them to be
making plans for the future because that's a good sign.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
But you also have to be very.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Aware that it could as it could be a good
sign for normal guys and you know, emotionally available and
well psychologically guys. It can also be the type of
guy that does it with every woman or it's just
part of his personality trait that he's you know, faking
it and he's just like offering you all these things

(21:55):
and making empty promises and you know, I'm not trying
to be negative. You know, I feel like, you know,
if that's what it's telling you to do, and that's
what you want, but just be aware that's just all
same because my augior say something else.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Empty promises to redfly. But where where are you, Alexi?
Where are you in your life right now?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
So I am divorced and I am on the other side,
luckily and gratefully.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
It's been you know, hard, a very hard year for me.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
You know, the show is still airing, so reliving, you know,
all these episodes and.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Just seeing me like this this this season.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know, I it's not me, you know, it's like
not me, Like I've put up with so much, not
only on the show, you know, as as a cast
me and if you're watching this show, you can see
because it's not the Alexia.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
It's kind of like my life was simmed.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
And you know, I wasn't depressed, because I really don't
get depressed, but you know, I was so emotional and
I was so I was going through so much on
my personal life that I was just like shutting out
all the noise, you know, like I wasn't really invested,
you know, with the girls, what was going on. I
was just kind of like sitting back watching it play
and it's kind of like what I was going through

(23:10):
with my personal life, you know.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
I was just kind of.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Like sitting back just watching it all play out, seeing
the patterns, gathering information and kind of just like figuring
things out. But like I said, I'm like on the
other side now, and you know, it was really difficult,
but you know, and it's not that I chose the show.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I chose me.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I had to choose me, and it took me all
this time to know that what I did was the
right thing.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
So I hate that you say that your light was damn.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
I mean, obviously you're just so bright and beautiful and
sweet and that.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Makes me seek Kelly.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Thank you, Kelly.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know you've been through a lot.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
You know it is.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
And I look back and I see like even like,
you know, looking at the comments and all that, I
was like, I can't believe. You know, we have a
certain girl on the show that I came in super
solid or a new cast member, and she wanted to
take over, and like literally she was insulting me. It
was like verbal assault. And I was okay with that,
and I guess because I was okay with that in
my personal life, and I just I was just like

(24:12):
in a really really you know, dark stage in my life,
you know, going through that in my personal life.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
And then I was just like taking it from everybody.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
But you know, the alexis back, you know, and you'll
see a different you know, I'm so excited for people
to see, like who I really am. I've always been
very genuine and raw on the show, as I am
in my personal life. But you know, when you're going
through things like this in your personal life, it could
really affect you, you know, in.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
A way and you don't even notice.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I mean, that's awful and I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
But also, you know, just talking about like you know,
new beginnings and you know it's coming, fall is coming,
and just doing different things, and I just feel like
when you're around other people, you know, like, Okay, we
can watch tennis, and it's fun to meet people and
drink these honeydews and have fun and that's great, but

(25:04):
you know, just being around other people is just you know,
we're humans and we need that human interaction. And I
think it's I think that's one thing that that's why
people really love The Open Too, is because the enthusiasm
is so contagious, and so wherever you are in your life,

(25:26):
if you're like you know, if you have love issues,
or if your kids are going to college or having
like kind of like an end of the summer, it's
almost brings this new energy to like fall forward into fall,
you know what i mean, and just a new way
to connect with other people. That's like there's no there's
nothing to win, nothing to lose, Like, oh my god,

(25:47):
what do you think of that guy wearing purple?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like there's nothing to lose and there's everything to gain
by just having fun.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
And yeah, I think God to have such great friends,
you know, that have brought a lot of joy and laughter.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
To my life.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I always have fun with you.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
I know, I'm gonna give me York next month and
the following also, like for the next two weeks, I'm
gonna be in New York a lot, so I'm gonna
call you so we can definitely go out.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
And catch up.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I would love that.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yah. You know. As far as dating, I'm like, I'm
not very at Kelly because I need to you know,
I'm still healing and and I just need to be
good with myself. You know, I feel like I've gone
into a lot of these relationships with men because of

(26:36):
comeing to my life. When I've been I haven't been
in a good place, and that's what I've attracted.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
So I need to be great. I need to be
so good.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
So I'm going to keep on focusing on me, on
my boys that you know, like you that I know
you're a great mom. That's through my life, and that's
you know what I've always like my life has been,
you know about them. I'm going to continue to do
that focus on me, and you know, when I do
believe in love, and I'm sure you know, I'll move
on with my life. But you know, for the first

(27:06):
time in my life, Kelly, I'm not ready to be
with anybody else. And I've always been ready. I've gone
from like one. I feel like I've been married on
my life and always in a relationship. But you know,
marriage didn't work out so good for me, so I'm
not planning on getting married again. Maybe I'll just say
girlfriend or whatever. But I believe in love, whether it's
in the tennis, whether I'm going to find it and
you is open or a fashion week or in Miami

(27:29):
or in Madrid, wherever it is. My heart is always
open for love, but my part needs to heal.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
That's super brave of you. First of all, Oh don't cry,
don't cry. I'm here for you. I think too.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Listen Alexia that you know there's some people that just
you know, are like I need to be with somebody.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
And you know, do you know how like cool it
is for you to just like take time for yourself.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean, with everything that you've been going through personally, professionally,
everybody loves you, and you know we're all here for you.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
We support you one hundred percent, and you know you
can take all the time you want. This is not
a race, this is not a sprint. It's a marathon.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
And you know, there's you have so much time, and
some people are like, Okay, I'm going to start September one,
or some people are like, okay, I just need to
start dating immediately. And I think it's just very cool
of you, and I'm like that, like I just like
after my breakup, I was like I just need a
second to like just take a second. And there's nothing
wrong with that and nothing wrong with it, and there's

(28:35):
just so many opportunities out there to meet people and
just to have fun with no commitment, not trying to
meet it, no intention to meet anyone.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Right at that stage, it like the intentional like I'm
not looking for any fag Like, I'm not like like
you said, I want to have fun.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
I want to feel free.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
I want to just be me, you know, I want
to like find myself again, because sometimes you lose yourself
in these relationships.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
That's one lesson that I have learned.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
And also my kids are like, mom, like, this is
what's going on. This is how it's I'm like, why
is everyone like, how did they get so bright?

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, they learned through us something good.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm an adult in the room. They're like, no, no, no,
this is how it works.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Someone got you good well, daughters that call you out
and remind you. Sometimes we need to be reminded, you know,
by either our friends or our family or our daughters
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
But that's why this pod is so good too, because
we can connect and talk about things that we may
not necessarily talk about, like filming or just an everyday life.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Filming is pretty different.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know you've been part of it, so you know,
you know, for filming you know, we're nine girls, so
we each have a story. And I was very protective
of my story because I was going through it in
a real.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Time, and I was protective of him. I was protective
of us.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
You.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
I better on my relationship. So I didn't share.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
A lot this season because when you're when it's real
and you're going through it and you what you guys
saw is actually what was really happening in my life.
It was emotional chaos and turmoil when they were a
good when you were bad. But like you said, you know,
when you're feeling, you can't share all that. Like the
viewers don't see the whole story, they see like bits
and pieces of it, and then there's editing obviously, so

(30:25):
then you know, it just changes things.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
So I love that you do have this platform, you know,
and I love to share it with you. What we
can talk about relationships and we can talk about us.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
And just you know, inspire help anybody else that's going
through it.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Now. I'm not ready to go with you this year
to the US Open, but next year I probviously will
be ready. We're gonna kick ass and we're gonna have
fun more than anything, because for me, it's all about
having fun.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
I've never like been that kind of one.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
And I don't know about you, even when I've been
single the short time that i've been single like that,
that I go out with my friends and I'm like, oh,
let's go here because you know the welfing men go
there and we can meet a welfing.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Like it's never been in my mind to meet somebody.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
And you know, despite the you know, the the whatever,
you know, the image that some people may have of
me that I'm a gold digger, which I'm not because
I would have so many millions of I was so
and I believe, you know, haven't gotten much from that,
but whatever, except uh, you know, they they sell you, well,
what is it that they say? They sell you a
dream and then they deliver a nightmare. So that's pretty been. Yeah.

(31:30):
But what I'm trying to say is like my thing
has never been that, Like I want to go to
the US Open Besides that, you know, we're talking about
that it could be a great place to meet eligible
bachelors and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
But like you said, to have fun, you know, and
if something good comes.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Out of it, if I meet, you know, a man
that potentially I can have a relationship with the throll
in love good. But I feel like we need to
just go for fun, not to really look for what
you're looking for, because for me, it's never happened that way.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
By the way, the lis Open is not a place
to find billionaires or private planes or.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Any of these things.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's just a baseline of people that have interests and
hobbies and that are using their you know, their what
you know, their money, that their work. You know, they
work hard for to do things like they're playing tennis
on a Tuesday if they want, they're playing, they're starting pickleball.
You know, there's there they were invited, that they're making
an effort. You know, it's not necessarily about how much

(32:30):
money that they have. For me, it's about who they
are as a person and how they're living their life.
I mean, I want to be with someone who like
loves their life.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
I don't want to be with.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Someone that's like, oh, here's my great life, like you
can't have it, and that's someone I want I want
to I want to have someone that's like loving their
life and be like, oh my god, guess what we're
doing today.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Right right, and wants to share it.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
With you. So yeah, I mean absolutely, But that's like
what you know, I told my my my girlfriends that
have been single for a long time, and I think
it's just they go looking for it. So you know,
I want to like make that Yeah, I want to
send that message to the women that like, don't go
looking for it when you're not looking for it. It's
like when it comes to you. And at least that's
how it's been, you know, for me. And and you know, yes,

(33:18):
the US open might be a great place to potentially
meet someone, but you know what, so is the supermarket.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
So it's the bank.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
And so I always say, I always say Sundays at
the supermarket is the best, right.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
And Sundays at the gym in the morning that means
it's a guy that doesn't like to go out a night.
Sundays early in the morning is also a good place,
like you know, to me, guys, but you know, I
get I feel like you can meet them anywhere, you
just have to be open to it. And and you know,
and at our age, you know, I think that we're
at a stage in our lives that we really know

(33:52):
what we want and don't know and we know, like
all the rest flags, you know, because we've gone through it.
We have experienced, you know, we have life experience and lessons,
so we have an advantage, my friend.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
We do, we would advantage we do that you're using
all the tennis lingo, Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Oh yeah, well I'm I again, like I think you're
amazing and appreciate you opening up and you know, US
Open is really really fun, but friendships are even more fun.
And I'm just having such a great time like getting
to know you and supporting you on your journey.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Thank you, Kelly. It's always great to talk to you
and look forward to seeing you in New York. Yes,
and talking for sure and doing more podcasts together because.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
I would love that talk to you. Love that.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
So if you're going to the US Open, we hope
you have the best time. And if you meet someone,
call us and tell us all about it or email
and phone number are in the show notes. Follow us
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