Kristin Cavallari Making Headlines!

After playing the fame game for 20-plus years, the hit podcaster and reality darling is telling all about her love (and lust!) life, sharing the spotlight with her kids and why ‘peace and stillness' are her new goals

- by CHRISTINA GARIBALDI, ISABEL MOHAN & ANDREA SIMPSON

Imagine if your juiciest,most intimate girls’ nights out took place in front of a live audience — with a few million more of your closest friends watching across the world, too. That’s the setup for Kristin Cavallari’s new show, Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour (E!, Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) — and some of the nuggets she lets slip are so private, we can’t believe we're really allowed to hear them. From X-rated revelations about her love life to gossip about some of her reality TV frenemies, she’s not so much spilling the tea as throwing it at us.

Really, though, Cavallari’s decision to take her hit podcast Let’s Be Honest on the road for four dates in March made total sense: Knowing people would gossip anyway, why not take control of the situation? “This is the one time in my life I want to give ‘em something to write about! Let’s give em some damn headlines!” she announced from the stage her first night. She may have been just 17 when she started out on MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, but these days, at 38 and with The Hills, Dancing With the Stars and her own reality show Very Cavallari behind her, she’s a total pro.

There's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cavallari’s colorful life. She’s always been sassy, sexy and fun, but now those qualities come with a calmer confidence and maturity. She’s five years out of her marriage to Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler, with whom she shares sons Camden, 12, and Jaxon, 11, and daughter Saylor, 9, and Honestly Cavallari shows that in many ways, she lives the life of a normal mom. Based in Nashville, she juggles career (her Uncommon James lifestyle brand also has four retail locations) with school pickups and making dinner.