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- Full Name Taylor Armstrong
- Birth Date Jun 10, 1971
- Age 53 Years, 5 Months
- Nationality American
- Birthplace Kansas, USA
- Occupation Former Cast Member of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
- Relationship Status Married
- Husband John H. Bluher (2014-Present)
- Wedding Date 4 April 2014
- Height 5 Feet 7.5 Inches
- Net Worth 2.5 Million Dollars
Taylor Armstrong | Biography
Reality TV PersonalityTaylor Armstrong, birth name Shana Hughes, is a reality TV star born in Kansas, USA, on 10 June 1971. She has mainly earned recognition from appearing on the reality show, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH).
Taylor Armstrong is a renowned TV personality. Reality show fans mainly recognized her as the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo TV.
What is Taylor Armstrong's 2022?
As of 2022, celebritynetworth.com has estimated Taylor Armstrong's net worth to be approximately $2.5 million. She is a reality TV personality and actress and her main income source is her 14 years long TV career.
Taylor took birth as Shana Hughes in Kansas, USA, on 10 June 1971. She has kept her early life information and parents' details undisclosed.
She has mainly earned recognition from appearing on the reality show, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH). From 2010 to 2016, she was one of the main cast members of the series in 68 episodes.
Taylor broke into a TV career with a guest appearance in the TV series The Hills in 2008. After that, it followed her multiple TV presence as herself and guest in Rachel Ray (2010 TV series), Fashion News Live (2011 TV show), The Wendy Williams Show (2010-2012 TV show), Couples Therapy (2014 TV series), etc. Lately, she was seen on TV in one of the episodes of the Bravo TV reality show, Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, in May 2021.
Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richards
Besides her numerous TV appearances, many people still remember her from an infamous meme where she and Kyle Richards were seen screaming at a cat. Taylor and Kyle were one of the first few original cast members of RHOBH.
In her interview with The Daily Dish in 2020, Taylor revealed that she has constantly remained in touch with most of the casts of RHOBH. Moreover, she has mostly remained close with Kyle Richards. She said, “Kyle and I have been texting a lot through all the memes that have been out.”
Her First Husband Committed Suicide
Taylor was married to her late husband Russell Armstrong for five years. She tied knots with him on 27 October 2005 and was set to divorce him before he took his life on 15 August 2011.
Reportedly, Taylor had an abusive five years marriage with Russell. She first opened up about enduring physical abuse from her husband during the season 2 reunion of RHOBH on Bravo TV. According to her statement with Andy Cohen, the reunion host of the reality series, Russell started physically abusing her when she was pregnant with her only daughter Kennedy Armstrong.
Eventually, Taylor decided to put an end to the marriage and filed for legal separation in July 2011. However, only after a month of legal pursuit Russell hanged himself at his house.
Taylor was the first person to discover Russell’s lifeless body hanging from the ceiling. She talked about the incident in one of the episodes of the podcast; Divorce Sucks with Laura Wasser. She said,
He was very narcissistic and not someone you would ever think would take their life. But ultimately, I had found him hanging in the house that he had moved into.
She Married John H. Bluher in 2014
After a bitter experience from a tragic first marriage, Taylor seems to have moved on with her life. Three years after her first husband’s demise, she married her current husband, John H. Bluher, on 4 April 2014.
Bluher is an attorney. She first met him after her estranged husband’s death. One of their common friends introduced them to each other, and he also helped her with the legal proceedings following Russell’s suicide.
Furthermore, Taylor and Bluher also appeared together on the reality series Couples Therapy in 2014. They were on TV for a total of 10 episodes.
Daughter
From her marriage with former late husband Russell Armstrong, Taylor gave birth to her only daughter Kennedy Armstrong. She was born on 30 January 2006. As of today, she is already 16 years old and lives with her parents in Orange County.
On Kennedy’s 14th birthday on 30 January 2020, her mother Taylor tweeted a beautiful picture of her with a caption that read,
She’s a big girl now #RHOBH birthday-best birthday party ever! my love Kennedy.