‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ adds a doctor: ‘I make women pretty for a living’

Ask Dr. Jen Armstrong however she met the women of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” the world amusement which she’ll articulation this season, and she needs immoderate clarification: idiosyncratic oregon professional?

“I’ve known Braunwyn for rather a agelong time; our kids went to preschool together,” she says of Braunwyn Windham-Burke, who near the amusement earlier the 16th season, which premieres connected Bravo connected Wednesday, Dec. 1.

“But I was conscionable successful interaction with truthful galore women done my practice, aesthetic medicine,” Armstrong says of the aesculapian tract besides known arsenic cosmetic dermatology. “I marque women beauteous for a living.

“So I deliberation that’s however it each came about, like, I person treated a batch of the housewives. A batch of the formed members, existent and past, person been patients of mine.”

Let’s enactment earlier the aesculapian privateness advocates travel knocking, Armstrong didn’t sanction immoderate names, though she doesn’t request truly request to, fixed that returning housewives Emily Simpson and Gina Kirschenheiter crook up successful her bureau during the archetypal episode.

Armstrong clarifies aboriginal successful the telephone that she’s lone taking recognition for the housewives with bully results from cosmetic procedures specified arsenic Botox and fillers.

“I’m going to backmost up and accidental I’ve treated a batch of the natural, good-looking housewives,” she says. “Not the overfilled feline Muppet housewives.”

Um, feline Muppets?

“I conscionable made that up,” Armstrong says. “I had to accurately picture that filler successful Orange County. I was like, ‘What bash they look like?’ They benignant of look similar a premix betwixt a feline and Muppet.”

Armstrong, 44, isn’t shy astir her information to articulation the show: She likes being connected TV, and she’s comfy successful that milieu.

“I’m not truly shy astir being successful beforehand of people, truthful the TV was exciting,” she says. “I’m ever successful beforehand of a camera for a programme oregon marketing.

“And I liked particularly that this season, determination was a reboot coming,” she says, noting that 3 of past season’s formed were not invited back, and 2 long-time members departed aft the play earlier that.

“I’m beauteous wide connected who I americium arsenic a person,” Armstrong says. “I’m like, ‘I’m not going to beryllium the idiosyncratic taking my apparel disconnected connected a stripper pole. So if that’s what you want, don’t prime me.’

“I deliberation I’m entertaining enough.”

But adjacent much than the elemental amusive of joining the archetypal successful the “Real Housewives” franchise, Armstrong is wide astir her different motive.

“I similar that it’s a large platform,” she says. “We tin speech astir the latest things successful medicine, we tin speech astir caller treatments, we tin assistance different people.”

And, arsenic luck would person it, she’s got a caller attraction she’s much than blessed to speech about, immoderate benignant of caller magnetic encephalon attraction for which she’s locked retired each different competitors successful Southern California, Armstrong says.

“I’m launching a caller assemblage of my practice, too, ‘Brain, Beauty, Body,’ from the apical down,” she says, the thought being that “you spot it connected their faces” if a diligent is struggling mentally.

“If 1 of my patients is anxiety-ridden and can’t slumber done the night, past it doesn’t substance however overmuch Botox I enactment successful due to the fact that of the stress,” Armstrong says.

Armstrong, who grew up successful Laguna Beach, has 3 children — 9-year-old twins and an 8-year-old, excessively — with hubby Ryne.

“We arsenic a household weighed some sides, the bully and the bad,” she said of joining the show. “I thought it came down to a calculated risk. Essentially a gamble connected yourself, right? So it’s similar you’re taking a hazard connected yourself, and I don’t peculiarly person thing to hide.”

Meeting the different housewives was easy, she says.

“Remember that I’m astir women each day,” Armstrong says. “Women astatine their best, women astatine their worst. I’m decidedly a girl’s girl. I genuinely had a bully clip gathering everybody.”

As for the acquisition arsenic it unfolded implicit weeks and months of taping, determination were occasional bumps, she admits. Her hubby “is a consecutive antheral who’s not ace thrilled being connected a world amusement connected Bravo,” she notes. “He’s besides an introvert, truthful that doesn’t help. But helium did his precise champion showing up.”

The hardest part, Armstrong says, was learning to unbend and bask her clip with the different women and their accumulation unit shadows.

“In retrospect, toward the extremity of the play I was evidently overmuch much relaxed successful beforehand of the camera,” she says. “I privation I was similar that the full full time.

“But you person to remember, I was the lone formed subordinate moving full-time,” Armstrong says. “So my responsibilities of supporting my household didn’t spell away.

“I deliberation successful retrospect I should person astir apt prepared for that better.”