When I take the Ludlow Hotel elevator to the penthouse suite to meet Amanda Batula, it’s been one month, down to the day, since announcing her divorce from Summer House co-star Kyle Cooke.
Batula is wearing a tan suede duster jacket and matching micro shorts, but swaps her photoshoot-ready heels for brown Ugg slippers—half glamorous, half the comfy bed bug viewers know and love from the reality show set in a Hamptons sharehouse. She gives me a tight hug and joins me on a beige boucle couch. It’s a loaded question, but I have to ask anyway: How are you, Amanda?
