Alexis Bellino Reveals How Transgender Son Miles Has Formed Her Views

Alexis Bellino is opening up about how her son’s transgender journey has affected her religion.

The Actual Housewives of Orange County, 47, spoke with Andy Cohen throughout the Bravo sequence’ season 18 reunion on Thursday, Nov. 14, the place she shared how elevating her transgender son Miles, 16, has impacted her sturdy Christian values and views on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

“It hasn’t modified my thoughts about LGBTQ or that everybody ought to have their very own proper to dwell their life the way in which they need,” she stated. “All it has executed is made me perceive the ache that’s together with that when individuals are so judgmental. It modified me being extra vocal about it’s all it is executed.”

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Miles’ transition has not impacted the mother of three’s dedication to the next energy, she defined.

“I do not like to make use of the phrase faith and I believe that is a really unfavorable connotation. I am very non secular and I do love my God,” she stated, including that she at all times places God above all different relationships.

“That is the way in which God needs it to be,” she shared. “It is purported to be God after which your partner after which your children. That is the way in which it really works higher in a wedding. I do have these values. Should you imagine in one thing increased than your self, then you are going to be a greater individual.”

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Along with Miles, Bellino can also be a mother to son James, 16, and Miles’ twin sister Mackenna, whom she shares with ex-husband Jim Bellino.

The truth star lately introduced her engagement to John Janssen, 61, revealing Miles’ response to the information throughout the season reunion.

“I despatched an image of the engagement ring to the entire household chain. Miles’ response was ‘WTF,’ ” she advised Cohen. “He is like, ‘CALL ME NOW,’ all capital letters. He is like, ‘John, you didn’t ask my permission!’ It was cute. John’s like, ‘Are you okay with it?’ And Miles is like, ‘Yeah, I like you.'”