‘RHORI’ Star Ashley Iaconetti Reveals How She’s ‘Grown’ After First Season, Talks Prioritizing Beauty

Ashley Iaconetti hasn’t let motherhood stop her love of all things beauty.

The Real Housewives of Rhode Island star, 38, has partnered with WellSpring’s personal care brands and recently chatted with First for Women about how she keeps beauty and wellness a priority as a mom of two boys.

The reality TV personality — who shares sons Dawson, 4, and Hayden, 2, with husband Jared Haibon — admits, “I don’t get to indulge as much as I would like because I used to be able to just create my schedule around work and beauty.”

Iaconetti jokes that her RHORI costar Rosie DiMare tells her, “When I want to do something beauty-related, I just go and do it.”

“That’s one of the things that you miss about your lifestyle before kids, for sure,” she notes.

However, the former Bachelor in Paradise star still keeps up with certain aspects of her routine, including Botox, brow threading and pedicures.

“I’m never gonna be the mom that really lets herself go. I love esthetics. I love beauty stuff. I grew up with such a beauty mom, and my sister’s such a beauty girl too, that we just enjoy it. It’s kind of my hobby, to be honest, just experimenting with new beauty stuff, new treatments at the med spa,” she shares. “I just have always prioritized beauty, and I do so a little less now that I’m a mom, but definitely it’s too much in my soul.”

The Bachelor alum’s next endeavor is a belly button piercing, which she expects to do in October — and she’ll turn to a personal care product to help it heal, the Bactine hydrogel with hypochlorous acid. 

“I haven’t had it pierced since kids. I’m so excited to do it again,” she tells First for Women. “I mean, I think it transforms my belly.”

Reflecting on her first season as a housewife, Iaconetti says she hasn’t “changed very much,” but she has “definitely grown” into “a better mediator” and can “listen to all sides.”

“I’d say that I’m a little bit more versed in being able to handle big opinions and big personalities,” she shares.