Whitney Port admitted she had a “secret” she wanted to tell her now husband at the time of their engagement.
The 38-year-old former reality star — who recently claimed she felt “under pressure” to lose weight for The Hills — revealed she was in mounting financial debt when Tim Rosenman popped the question in 2013 during Wednesday's episode of Money rehabilitation podcast.
“When I got engaged, I remember having a $35,000 credit card bill,” she said, adding that she was “ashamed” of the “secret.”
“I knew about it for a while and I let it build up and basically just paid the interest each month.”
Whitney, who met Tim on the set of The City, said she knew she needed to clean the slate with her future husband and spilled the beans to him one night shortly after the engagement.
Whitney Port admitted that she had a “secret” that she wanted to tell her husband at the time of their engagement; seen in November 2023
The 38-year-old former reality star revealed she was in mounting financial debt when Tim Rosenman popped the question in 2013; seen in 2015
“I told him one night, and he was definitely shocked, but he said, 'We'll figure it out,'” she recalled.
'I remember that fortunately I was able to pay it off quickly.'
The actress said she came under financial pressure because she didn't save any money while she was on reality TV.
“I spent a lot, and I think that became my behavior that I tried to suppress as I got older,” she added.
The adorable couple has been married since November 2015 and welcomed son Sonny two years later.
The debt revelation comes after Whitney said she felt a “pressure” to be skinny when she rose to fame on The Hills.
The star had just finished high school when she started filming The Hills and explained that she initially thought she was “so much bigger” than her female co-stars and that her sudden fame “affected” her relationship with food, but 'steps' to solve things.
When asked if she felt pressure to be skinny when she was on the show, she shared UsWeekly: 'Certainly. When I started filming The Hills, I was coming out of my freshman year of college, where I had gained a lot of weight.
'And then I saw myself on the screen and I thought, “Oh my God, I'm so much bigger than all the other girls on the show.”
“When I got engaged, I remember I had a $35,000 credit card bill,” she said, adding that she was “ashamed” of the “secret”
“I told him one night, and he was absolutely shocked, but he said, 'We'll figure it out,'” she recalled
The adorable couple has been married since November 2015 and welcomed son Sonny two years later
“I think that was the first thing that started to affect my relationship with food. [Later] I could always keep it up [my weight] because I felt like I was in a healthy place. It's just things from the past year that have caught up with me.
'I have [been meeting] with a nutritionist, and now I'm digging into what my real problems are. What I have realized is that they are completely eco-friendly. I lost my father 10 years ago. I have been dealing with infertility for five years and there has been so much sadness and loss.”
Whitney has struggled with her mental health in recent years, but Whitney feels like she is in a much better place now.
She said E! News: 'I think I'm growing up, I'm almost 40.
'I have taken the lead and will continue. I'm a work in progress like everyone else, but I'm definitely doing the things I set out to do that make me happy and feel my best.”