The Culpo sisters are photogenic, with shiny hair and perfectly sculpted eyebrows, and cute designer clothes. They have more than 5.5 million Instagram followers between them. Two of the three date NFL players.
Nor, to paraphrase the most famous of the group, former Miss Universe Olivia, they have no limits, filters or personal space.
Naturally, now they have a reality show.
“The Culpo Sisters” debuts November 7 on TLC/Discovery+, following sisters Aurora, Olivia, and Sophia as they live, laugh, love, and post-fraternize in sunny Los Angeles. And just as Olivia promised, they really don’t hide anything from the camera.
“We’ve always been an open book,” Olivia, 30, told The Post. Furthermore, she added, “Our family is pretty crazy.”
“Bas-t crazy,” agreed little sister Sophia.
In one episode, Aurora, a 33-year-old mom blogger and the only blonde in the group, starts talking about last night’s sex with her husband during a “Euphoria”-themed party. (She filed for divorce from “Survivor” contestant Michael Bortone in April.) Fashion influencer Olivia tortures her family by playing the cello for her parents’ 35th anniversary.
“I like to watch [Mom’s] face when you play and she says: it’s a bit painful, but she wants to be sweet and grateful, but I would prefer that you stop”, Sophia recalled with glee.
As for “baby” Sophia, 26, she helps herself out of her sister’s brand new designer stilettos without asking permission.
It’s not the only time in the series when Sophia steals her sisters’ belongings, leading Olivia to buy a lock for her closet door.
Sophia was unapologetic when Culpo’s team spoke to The Post. “What are sisters for if not for their closets?” she said, smiling.
Aurora nodded, pointing to the gold studs in her ears: “I’m wearing Olivia’s earrings right now.”
“The Culpo Sisters” is primarily a game, but the trio also navigate some pretty serious emotional territory, including romance, heartbreak, divorce, and, of course, sibling rivalry.
“I really thought these kinds of reality shows were more contrived than they are,” Aurora said. “I thought we would have to be doing a bit of acting or making things up, but there really was nothing. They really follow you around all day, every day… I realized that the way they take the drama out of you is that you’re so tired that it all comes to the surface and it ends up being a great show.”
The sisters share some traits with the more famous reality star sisters, the Kardashians: they are wellness/beauty/fashion street vendors, own multiple brands or businesses, and often dress provocatively. But unlike Kim & Ko., these women hail from a small New England town and grew up in an eccentric, artistic family that had little interest in fame, celebrities or designer labels.
And they still don’t. “They call Olivia an influencer, but we don’t know why, because we’re not influenced by it,” says her bewildered mother, Susan, at one point on the show.
The brothers and their two brothers, Pete and Gus, who, along with the parents, appear intermittently in the new series, were born in Cranston, Rhode Island. His father, Peter, opened several restaurants in the Boston area; Mom Susan played viola for several groups, including the Boston Symphony and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra.
“We were all so close in age, there are five of us in eight years, and our parents worked all the time, so we had to depend on each other,” Olivia said. The older kids cooked, cleaned, and took care of the little ones, letting them stay up late until they heard their dad’s car screeching into the driveway and had to run upstairs to bed as fast as they could to stay out of trouble. problems. “It was fun,” she said.
Aurora was the maternal, sometimes domineering older sister; Sophia was the spoiled baby.
“Sophia was like my daughter,” Aurora said. “She used to pick her up and French braid her hair.”
Meanwhile, Olivia, the classic middle child, was clamoring for attention. “I used to beg Aurora, ‘Can I have a hug? Can I follow you all day?’” she recalled.
Olivia was a self-proclaimed “nerd” who spent her summers at band camp and played the cello. But all that changed during her sophomore year at Boston University when she decided to try out for Miss Rhode Island. She had never been in a contest before, that was not how her family filmed; her mom didn’t even wear makeup.
Olivia wore a dress that she rented for $20 and then realized it had a hole in it. No matter. She won that title, then she won Miss USA, and then she won Miss Universe in 2012.
Suddenly, she was a celebrity, traveling the world and dating singer Nick Jonas. She ended up going with him to Los Angeles. When they parted ways, Olivia realized that she had no identity, no way to make a living, and no plan. She didn’t even have money to buy groceries. It was then that she decided that she had to take matters into her own hands.
Fast-forward roughly a decade later, and Olivia, now joined on the West Coast by Aurora and Sophia, has a whopping 5.3 million followers on Instagram. She has posed for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Her sisters have also joined the Instagram influencer hustle.
The idea for a reality show actually came from Instagram. “We got an overwhelming amount of feedback, with people saying, ‘We love you guys together, please put on a show!’” Olivia said. “And then we started to realize that we had a lot of fun working together.”
“We already share much of our lives [on social media]Aurora added. “[So] we thought, ‘Why not give the production part to someone else?’”
The family began filming the series in October. By the time they were done, their lives had become much more dramatic than they had anticipated. Sophia ended up moving out of Olivia’s house in Los Angeles and going to New York City to be with her boyfriend, New York Jets player Braxton Berrios. Aurora and her husband of two and a half years decided to separate from her, leaving her to navigate a divorce while she raised two young children: her son Remi and her daughter Solei.
“I felt the timing couldn’t have been worse,” Aurora recalled. “We decided to get divorced in November… so it really happened while we were filming. And it was very difficult, but I made a commitment to be vulnerable, for the sake of our audience, and to let people get to know us a little bit more.”
That prompted Olivia, who has also dated NFL player Danny Amendola and former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, to weigh in on her own relationships, saying she always thought by age 30 she’d be married with kids. . At one point in the show, she breaks down talking about an ex-boyfriend who treated her like “less than human.”
She is now in a romantic relationship with Christian McCaffrey of the San Francisco 49ers and although she previously swore she would never date another football player, she finally proudly accepts her status as a WAG.
“It’s a real-time commitment, and it’s just an amazing sport, and they’re the best at what they do and at that level, it takes an incredible amount of dedication and focus. So there are many times when you are not necessarily the first and that is something you get used to as a WAG, but we do it with pride! she said.
Despite all the drama, the sisters said that doing the show has brought them even closer.
“The fights [were] epic, but we’re like little kids,” Olivia said. “We have a five-second rebound.” But she still hasn’t removed the lock from her closet; after all, Sophia still visits her a lot. “That’s still there. Everyone listening? she said, looking at her sisters. “That’s still there.”
