Kyle Richards Reveals Why She “Can’t See” Herself With an Older Man

Is Kyle Richards rewriting her love story in real time?

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is opening up about what she wants next — and let’s just say, it doesn’t include an “older guy.” During The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show for Season 15, Episode 10, the cast got into a juicy chat about their “ideal” partners and whether they “tend to skew older,” as a producer put it. That’s when Kyle dropped a little bomb about her dating mindset.

“In my mind and in my heart, in my soul, I’m, like, 27 years old,” Kyle explained. “And I don’t have an age [limit], you know, exactly, but I just feel like now, I can’t see myself being with an older person.”

Whew.

For context, her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky, is about a year-and-a-half younger than she is — so we’re not talking decades here. But clearly, Kyle is thinking differently these days.

Still, she left the door cracked just a little.

“I think it depends on the person,” Kyle added. “It could be somebody who’s, you know, a little bit older than you, but also acts really young.”

Translation? Don’t come at her with retirement energy.

Her co-star Erika Jayne jumped in with a very Beverly Hills take on aging: “There’s L.A. age, and then there’s the rest of the country’s age. … So, if you’re 60 in Los Angeles and if you take care of yourself, you probably look 40 to the rest of the nation.”

Only in L.A., right?

Kyle had her own twist on that theory, suggesting it might be more true for women — before getting very specific about what she finds attractive.

“I feel like the men actually look better outside of California, because they’re, like, doing more things. They’re men, yeah. They’re doing man things with their truck and hauling things around, not having people do s–t for them and getting lazy.”

So what does this all mean for Kyle’s next chapter? She’s not putting a hard number on it, but she’s making it clear: she feels young, she wants energy, and she’s not interested in someone who acts older than their birth certificate says.

And in Beverly Hills, that might narrow the field more than you think.