For Dorothy Wang, this year’s Chinese zodiac feels particularly significant. “The snake’s year is about losing your skin and transforming and using your wisdom from previous years,” she says. And with new projects, a Recent commitmentAnd upcoming wedding plans, reality -TV star is ready to do just that and trust herself in the process. “Sometimes I get stuck in what I feel people want from me and what I actually want. It’s ok to grow out of certain things and leave them earlier.” Like wang, who just Celebrated her birthday Earlier this week, “I just turned 37, so I’m no longer 25 years old and running around Beverly Hills.”
In honor of Lunar New YearWang collaborated with Tequila Don Julio to launch Tequila Don Julio 1942 years by Snake Edition, a bottle with a limited edition designed with a Chinese star manufacturing and Aztec Feathered Serpent. Wang, who has been a long fan of the Don Julio brand, describes the release as “a beautiful mix of two cultures that come together.”
While Tequila will surely be involved in her celebration, the most important part of the holiday is to gather her chosen family. Although she is usually with her family in Los Angeles during Lunar New Year, this year, she hosts a family dinner for her friends in New York City at Hwa Yuan Szechuan. “If I’m not with my family, I like to host dinners and continue the traditions, which is usually just a family dinner,” she says. They will eat Lucky Lunar New Year Foods, as dumplings, which “denoting small bags of money”, noodles for happiness and life and fish to increase prosperity and abundance.
Wang is not “superstitious”, but she likes to honor Chinese traditions for the holidays. “Some years I am more committed than others, but in general my family always says only with family and loved ones,” she says. “How you start your year is how your year will be. So they really want (me) to keep a calm temperament, not get upset and no battle. No cleaning, no housework or busy work.”
Although Wang was not public about her relationship at that time, last year, she also hosted a moon -year dinner with her hubby, Brandon Yankowitz. In fact she’s just hard launched its romance After they were engaged in October 2024, surprising fans on social media. “It’s not like I kept a secret because my friends, my family and everyone around us who saw us personally knew we were together or met him,” she says. “We just didn’t publish it on social media. He’s very private.”
After sharing their dating life on “BLING EMPIRE: New York” And “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills”, to keep her relationship privately known “very strange.” “I think it was different for me at first because I always put everything out there,” she says. “I probably never thought I couldn’t publish my significant others on Instagram, but once you have something very special it feels sacred and just for you and the people immediately around you. But after we got engaged we felt as it was Time to let people a little on our love and our story together. ”
Since Yankowitz did not have an Instagram account, the couple created an Instagram account for him a week after they got engaged. “He is private on it, but he looks at it as a photo album. So if I tag him or we do a collapse (ppst), he likes to be able to go on it and see our pictures together.”
When it comes to their wedding plans, Wang says they are still in the “scouting process” to choose a place. “Shocking, I’m really not that big of a wedding girl … Hopefully it means I won’t be a Bridezilla, but we never know!” While they originally wanted to book a place immediately after their commitment, they decided to take a break during the holidays. “Wedding planning is a fun process, but it really is also a very stressful process. We love so many different places, so it’s hard to limit it. We love to travel and we want to create a unique, fun experience for our guests and our families, so we probably think of a destination somewhere. ”
Fortunately, The Year of the Snake comes at a suitable time for Wang’s next chapter.
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