to live to about, ooh, comfort food and her latest cookbook, "true comfort," please welcome kristin cavallariwe get to this great recipe, kristin, tell us -- because you have three 8 and under. three children 8 and under. during this time how is it going? >> yeah, i do. my kids are 8, 6 and almost 5 so definitely in a crazy phase but i feel lucky we're in nashville to be honest. i'm out in the country so life feels semi normal. my kids have been in school since early august and i've been at the office. so it's been nice and i feel like we were lucky because i could tell my kids to go outside and ride a bike. i think about everyone in new york and i don't know how parents did it in new york so i feel like i've been very, very lucky. >> yeah, definitely been tough in new york. you recently opened up about a new role in your life as a co-parent with your ex, jay cutler. how has that been? >> yeah, you know, taking it day by day, learning as i go. obviously my first time doing it. so we're navigating it the best we know how but we're an eight-minute drive from each other and we are on good terms

" -- >> reporter: this morning reality tv star kristin cavallari breaking her silenceon i've ever made. when you work at something for so many years and nothing's changing, i think you have to just make a decision, and, you know, life is short. i want to be happy. >> relax. >> reporter: their nearly seven-year marriage profiled across three seasons of the e! show "very cavallari." talking about it for the first time, the couple who shares three young kids had been struggling for years. saying, quote, i always thought it was interesting when people would refer to us as couple goals. i was, like, if you guys only knew. >> we might want to work on that pre-nup. >> reporter: cracks in their marriage apparently evidence in the last season of filming. >> we kept stuff private, and they didn't put it in the show. which was good. >> people were speculating. was it cheating or did something happen? she said, none of that's true. honestly it's just that aren't a good fit anymore. >> reporter: she became a household name after starring on the hit mtv series "laguna beach." the gi