Kyle Richards (born January 11, 1969) is an American actress, television personality, memoirist and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. She began her career as a child actor, appearing in a recurring role on Little House on the Prairie, and in several horror films, including The Car (1977), Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977), and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). Since 2010, she has appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Biography

In 1988, at the age of eighteen, Richards married Guraish Aldjufrie while she was pregnant with their daughter Farrah (b. 1988), but they separated in 1990 and divorced two years later.

Richards met second husband Mauricio Umansky, a Los Angeles real estate agent, in 1994. Umansky is of Russian and Greek Jewish descent. He is the son of Estella Sneider. He was born and raised in Mexico. The couple wed on January 20, 1996, when Kyle was 4 months pregnant. Their daughter Alexia was born on June 18, 1996. The couple went on to have two more daughters, Sophia (b. 2000) and Portia (b. 2008). Richards, who is of English, Irish and Welsh descent, converted to Orthodox Judaism when she married Umansky. She also attends events at the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles.

She resides in Bel Air, Los Angeles, with her husband and children.