Amanda Batula is ready to veg out.
Fans of “Summer House” will associate the reality star with, well, lying in bed. In fact, she and BFFs Ciara Miller and Paige DeSorbo have collectively come to be known as “The Bedbugs,” and the latter even launched a sleepwear brand after leaving the Bravo show.
Now that Batula’s confirmed she’s splitting from husband (and co-star) Kyle Cooke, the swimwear designer has officially moved out and into her own apartment. And she’s filling it with better vibes (and lots of Nerds Gummy Clusters and Pirate’s Booty), teaming up with LoveSac for a new campaign that sees her transitioning from bedbug to couch potato.
“Obviously, I’m obsessed with the couch and bed. I love being horizontal as much as possible. So working with a brand that literally specializes in couches, I think it’s a no-brainer,” Batula tells Page Six Style exclusively while on set — and wearing white silk pieces from DeSorbo’s Daphne line.
“I think we’ve all heard Kyle complain about how much time I spent on the couch. So why not have a couch that will literally last forever with me?” she asks.
Batula tells us her previous home style was very “millennial beige.”
“Everything was white, clean, crisp,” she says, calling her old white couch “disgusting and dirty” thanks to her two dogs.
“Now I’m trying to lean more into neutrals, pops of colors,” she adds — like LoveSac’s blush pink hue. “And I’m really trying to add more color into my apartment with artwork and furniture pieces.”
One such item is a Jonathan Adler pillow in the shape of a Prozac pill — a nod to her struggles with depression, which she’s been open about on the Bravo show — that she called an “incredible gift.”
“That’s the vibe. It’s, like, fine, silly, light, just living in color,” she said. “I just want to be surrounded by happiness, the things that make me happy and comfortable and feel warm.”
Batula’s next chapter will include a “Summer House” spinoff, “In the City,” starring both her and Cooke as well as Lindsay Hubbard — and, she teases, their “real true friends.”
“Kyle and I are both doing really well right now, and we’re both happy, and just focusing on healing and and continuing to better ourselves,” Batula tells us, adding that pal Miller has been “an incredible support” and “always checking in” on her.
“It’s a path that I’m very happy to continue going down and enjoying every day just feels better and better, and that’s been a really amazing thing to happen,” she adds.
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