The Untold Truth Of Avery Singer

Born May 2, 1995, Avery Ann Singer is the 27-year-old only child of "Real Housewives" veteran Ramona Singer and ex-husband Mario Singer (via Biography Mask). Ramona is an original cast member of the "Real Housewives of New York" series, which started shooting in 2008 (via Time). Ramona, who, along with Luann de Lesseps, has never missed a season of filming, began allowing the cameras to follow Avery around almost after the RHONY cameras started rolling (via Us Weekly). Accordingly, Avery has become a celebrity in her own right, whether intentionally or not. Her Instagram page has over 106,000 followers, and her TikTok account boasts more than 22,000 fans. 

Nevertheless, Avery Singer always came off as fairly grounded, at least for a reality television celebrity, and especially in comparison to her mom, who is known for her enthusiastic support of the pinot grigio industry, her motor mouth, and her hair-trigger temper — which has pitted her against virtually every other "RHONY" cast member at some time or another (via Screen Rant). In fact, after graduating from the highly competitive University of Virginia, Avery took a job in finance.

That being said, Avery has since left the staid world of finance to work in sales for Cameo, the celebrity-stanning video service (via Bravo) — and so it seems the untold truth of Avery Singer is ripe for the telling.

Ramona recently revealed to People that she and Avery have both tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. While antibody tests aren't yet reliable enough to guarantee that the Singers did have COVID-19, Ramona says that she was pretty sure when she contracted it back in February. Since Ramona also suffers from Lyme disease, she didn't initially recognize her symptoms as being out of the ordinary. When COVID-19 cases were spiking in New York City in March, Avery and Ramona hopped a plane to Florida to self quarantine with family.

Once Avery arrived in Florida, she started experiencing some symptoms. "She just thought maybe she had a cold or a sinus infection, because she wasn't able to taste food and she lost her sense of smell," Ramona told People. Avery self-quarantined until her symptoms were gone. In May, the entire family got tested for antibodies. Once Avery and Ramona received their positive test results, they started donating plasma.

It's no surprise Avery comes out to defend her mom, because she and Ramona are seriously close. Avery even told Us Weekly, "We were actually sharing a bed, as well, so we're hardcore roommates and we're never going to live this close in quarters... we still have three bedrooms here to ourselves but we're still choosing to sleep in the same bed." Not every mother and daughter could survive sharing a bed as well as an apartment for months, but Avery and Ramona seem to be doing just fine.

Ramona seems to love having a chance to spoil her daughter. For Avery's 25th birthday in May, Ramona and her ex-husband, Mario, set up a seriously luxurious spread for their at-home celebration (via Bravo). Between her friends and her parents, Avery ended up with four cakes. One flower cake, one ice cream cake, and two more delicious looking cakes with white and pink frosting. 

So will Ramona and Avery start living together again in New York? For now, it's unclear; in her Instagram stories, Avery claimed she's not sure where she's going next.

Whereas public information regarding Avery Singer's high school academic career is sparse, plenty is available online regarding her college years. According to her LinkedIn profile, Avery began her university studies in 2013 at the highly selective Emory University, where her outstanding grades earned her a place in Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society for first-year college students. Admission to Phi Eta Sigma requires a grade point average of at least 3.5, and from what proud mom, Ramona, told fellow "RHONY" star Bethenny Frankel, Avery was a shoo-in. 

"She just got straight As at college, first semester, that's my girl," Ramona kvelled as Frankel listened (via YouTube). Avery did such impressive work during her first year that she was able to earn admission as a transfer student to the University of Virginia (via Heavy). As Ramona explained at the time via her blog, although Avery liked Emory, UVA was more aligned with her interests and goals. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 and one of the nation's top institutes of higher learning, UVA takes a mere 15% of out-of-state applicants (presumably Avery was when she applied), according to College Transitions. Having transferred in time for the fall 2014 semester, Avery graduated from UVA on schedule in 2017 with a major in economics and a minor in sociology. 

That Avery and Ramona could enjoy one another's company despite extremely close quarters during 2020 shouldn't be all that surprising to anyone, considering the cozy relationship the duo shared while Avery was in college. According to Bravo's Daily Dish, Ramona visited Avery on at least two notable occasions while Avery was a student at UVA, and both times, Avery included her mother in her socializing. For example, the photo pictured above, which Ramona posted to Instagram on October 11, 2015 (the first semester of Avery's junior year), showed Avery and Ramona socializing with what appeared to be three UVA undergraduates.

This was not the first time Avery invited her mother to participate in the college festivities with her. On September 29, 2014, Ramona posted a photo of herself with Avery in which the two women wore cocktail-length dresses. Ramona captioned the snap, "Best time at tri delta formal with Avery." As Avery noted via Reality Blurb, "My mom came to UVA a lot, and I would drag her, or she would want to go to the frat parties and dance with me and come to everything I was doing." 

In a letter written by a 20-year-old Avery Singer to her father, Mario — excerpts of which Ramona Singer republished in her 2015 memoir, "Life on the Ramona Coaster" — Avery expressed her anguish, as well as her anger, over Mario's betrayal of Ramona and herself (via Radar Online). The letter accused Mario of having behaved like a teenager and of embarrassing both Ramona and herself, not to mention tearing apart the tightly-knit family unit that the three had once comprised. "We were a trifecta," the letter stated, "and you broke us." Avery was particularly outraged by her father's having entertained his affair partner in the Singer family's summer home in Southampton, New York — and in the bed that he and Ramona had shared for nearly two decades. 

Avery's heartbreak over her parents' estrangement showed in plummeting grades, according to Ramona, who seemed to recognize that Avery may have become preoccupied with worrying about her mother and acting as her mother's "pillar of strength" (via Bravo's Daily Dish). Nevertheless, Avery's anger was directed primarily at Mario, whom Avery refused to see at first, according to the Daily Mail. Ultimately, however, it would appear that Avery and Mario have since reconciled, which may be a function of his eventually having distanced himself from the woman with whom he had an affair that precipitated the breakup of the Singer marriage, per Us Weekly.

During a 2009 interview with Bravo, Ramona Singer revealed that Avery had, at the time, been dealing with a form of "juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" known as spondyloarthropathy. Spondyloarthropathy differs from other forms of arthritis in that it explicitly affects sites where the ligaments and tendons attach to the bones, according to the American College of Rheumatology. Although the condition typically affects the "joints along the spine as well as hips, shoulders, knees, and ankles," per Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, in Avery's case, the condition initially presented as pain in one of her feet. However, what led to Avery's diagnosis was that she woke up one morning with a limp, seemingly out of nowhere.

Although spondyloarthropathy is most often first diagnosed in teens and twenty-somethings, Avery was still young when she received her diagnosis. Exactly how old wasn't specified, but the condition weighed on Ramona's mind in early 2009 when Avery was 13. At that time, Avery had just undergone a four-inch growth spurt over the course of just one year, and this seemed to exacerbate her symptoms, requiring her to be continuously on medication to provide relief. At the time, Ramona noted that she had reason to hope that Avery would eventually grow out of this condition as she grew into adulthood. 

Although both of her parents are entrepreneurs, Avery Singer — who majored in economics at the University of Virginia — chose a career in finance after graduation. "She chose finance 'cause she's really good with numbers," her mom, Ramona Singer, said of her in 2018, according to Bravo's The Daily Dish. Almost two years after starting her first job at Morgan Stanley, Avery decided to make a slight shift — albeit while still in the financial industry. She became an analyst at the prestigious New York-based investment management firm Neuberger Berman, according to LinkedIn. Analysts are, essentially, paid investment banking trainees — doing research, performing analyses, collecting data, and learning which particular areas of expertise might appeal to them so that they might ultimately come to focus on one specific industry (e.g., retail), one individual market (e.g., South America), or one particular type of asset (e.g., corporate bonds). 

About two years later, Avery Singer decided it was time to make a more significant move. So in February 2021, Avery left Neuberger Berman to take a remote job with Cameo, a relatively new platform by which people can pay celebrities to create personalized video messages. Avery is available for Cameo video appearances, but her job with Cameo isn't as a talent but as a sales and marketing professional. Avery spent her first year working for Cameo on strategic talent partnerships, and she has now moved into the role of account executive.

Although Cameo is based in Chicago, Illinois, Avery's status as a remote worker offered her the flexibility to follow her bliss. Just months after hyping up her big move to Chicago, Avery Singer surprised more than a few of her fans and followers when she used her Instagram story to reveal that "the most spontaneous thing I've definitely done in January 2022 is moving to Austin, Texas" (via Bravo). As far as explanations went, Avery kept it simple. "I've never been to Texas before, so here we go." And off she went, but it wasn't until a month later, that she elaborated, at least to some extent, upon what she was thinking. Apparently, her move was partly motivated by a desire to gently push the limits of her comfort zone (via Instagram). 

"I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to successfully try another city again after having the best time in Chicago and stepping out of my comfort zone there," she wrote as a caption to a photo that capture a dramatic view of the Austin, Texas, cityscape. "I'm proud I've been able to do what I said I was going to do and try living in a couple US cities while being able to work remote...I hope this continues to inspire some of you to make a change if you want to do something ... just try." 

More than a decade after viewers first met young Avery Singer on "Real Housewives of New York," the daughter of Ramona Singer has emerged as an exciting and autonomous adult in her own right, even if we don't know a heck of a lot about what goes on in her romantic life. What we do know is that we want to know more, not just about her romantic life but, perhaps even more importantly, about her career and where she's living.

On April 30, Avery hinted in an Instagram post that perhaps she had ventured to Austin only temporarily. "Avoiding winter and coming to ATX for the first time was definitely the best idea I've had so far this year," she wrote. "Feeling so lucky for everyone I have met and finally getting to experience the hype of this special place. I'll be back soon." One week later, she posted a Mother's Day photo of herself twinning with Ramona in matching black pants and white shirts that look just a little too warm for Austin's balmy springtime weather. In fact, the caption suggests that the photo was taken in Chicago. Another photo, taken a week later, shows Avery standing before an indoor garden — in Chicago. Putting it together, we're thinking Avery is back to living in Chicago after a pleasant, temporary winter-long stint in Austin.