It had always looked like Farrah Brittany was the more stable one. When the cameras were on her mother Kyle Richards and the organized chaos of Beverly Hills real estate, Farrah acted differently. She was calm, measured, and careful about what she said. It felt real when she finally told everyone about her relationship with Alex Manos, who owns and runs the Beverly Hills Car Club. There is no plot. Living.
In 2018, they began dating, and things slowly got better for a while. In 2020, they bought a townhouse together. It was a project, an investment they both had in common, and a small sign of where things were going. It was “a little secret” when Farrah first shared it on Instagram, which is the low-key way that people say something when they’re excited but don’t want to put on a show. Before they knew what was coming and the cameras got closer, that might have been the happiest time in the relationship.
The engagement took place in the fall of 2021, not long after Farrah’s cousin Paris Hilton’s big wedding. Alex asked Farrah to marry him in front of the cameras at RHOBH, and she posted the moment on Instagram with a warmth that seemed natural. I’m so thankful for you. She wrote, “I love you so much.” Kyle Richards seemed very happy and said that Alex was “so smart, cute, and ambitious.” The ring was beautiful. Their names were on the cake. It looked like something was starting.
Then 2023 came along, and signs of peace began to show. Fan alert: While Farrah was on a family trip to Italy, she was photographed without her engagement ring. Whichever picture you looked at, her left hand was either hidden or ringless in a way that stood out. For months, she didn’t say anything in public. A lot can be said in that kind of silence.
By March 2024, she proved what many people already thought. Alex and she were done. It was over with the engagement. In a way that might have hurt more than the breakup itself, season two of Buying Beverly Hills on Netflix showed how everything fell apart. For Farrah, it was a “very sensitive subject to be playing out on TV, but it is what it is.” That sentence hurts me in a quiet way because it shows resignation and the knowledge that her private heartbreak was already over.
The circumstances of Farrah and Alex’s breakup make it feel different from other celebrity breakup stories. Mauricio Umansky, Farrah’s stepfather, and her mother split up in 2023, at the same time that Farrah’s own relationship was getting stuck. Mauricio talked about it on camera and said, “I’m really glad and proud that Farrah is taking her time trying to figure out what to do.” He also said, “Even the best marriages don’t work out all the time.” No matter if he meant it as a comfort or a warning, the way it hit him had a certain weight.
She once said that she hoped she and Alex would get married and that she saw a long future with him even if they didn’t. Many people know what it’s like to have clarity change into uncertainty over the course of a few years. It doesn’t have to be dramatic to be hard. Relationships don’t always move forward, and things get quieter the longer you wait for them to.
Now Farrah is in a totally different part of the story. She told everyone in July 2026 that she was going to have her first child in November. This is a big change that feels really personal to a woman who spent years dealing with very public romantic uncertainty. It seems like she’s moved toward something that is only hers, no matter what came before.
