Larsa Pippen details ‘draining' Marcus Jordan relationship: ‘Thank God made it out'
Larsa Pippen's last relationship threw her for a hoop.
The 'Real Housewives of Miami' star, 50, and her ex-boyfriend Marcus Jordan were together for two years before going their separate ways in July 2024. Although the exes had broken up once before, this last split was for good — and for the betterment of Pippen.
'I honestly didn't date for like a year,' the mom-of-four confessed exclusively to The Post ahead of the show's Season 7 premiere on Wednesday.
'I just worked on Date.com. I worked on my businesses. I was really spending time with my kids, my friends. I really did not want to date anyone just because I feel like my relationship was so public. It was, at the end, was so draining and I thank God [I] made it out of it.'
9 Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan.
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Looking back at her relationship with Jordan, 34, Pippen noted 'it just felt like a really hard relationship to distance myself from.'
Now, the influencer has found her other half in basketball star Jeff Coby — but she plays coy on if he will show up on future episodes.
'You know, I feel like if you date me, you kind of don't have a choice because I do film a lot,' Pippen teased to The Post. 'I do feel like he's open to it. We haven't really had that conversation — what type of role he would play if it would be big or small. But I do feel like, you know, he's going to support me the same way I support him.'
9 Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen in Los Angeles in 2023.
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At the time of meeting Coby, 31, Pippen was focusing on herself, those closest to her, and the app she co-founded, Date.com.
'So I didn't date for a year and then I just ended up going to a party and met Jeff and it just kind of happened naturally, organically. It wasn't something that I was looking for,' she explained. 'I don't think he was looking to be in a relationship and it just kind of evolved to what it is now.'
'I went to this gym that I work out at, it's called DBC,' she explained, 'and it was like the 10-year anniversary and we just ended up meeting there.'
9 'The Real Housewives of Miami' – Season 7.
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But before striking up a match at the gym, Pippen tried dating in this day and age: which requires dating apps.
'Last year, I was single — all my best friends were single,' she recalled. 'We're like, let's go on a dating app. So we started researching all these dating apps and there was not a dating up that we liked that we're like, 'Oh, I wanna put myself out there on this dating app.' And so I helped create Date.com, which is powered by AI. It is the smartest dating app ever. There's facial recognition. So there's no catfishing.'
Pippen's favorite feature is that 'you can voice call and video call from the actual app. You never have to give anyone your personal phone number.'
9 Larsa Pippen and Jeff Coby out in June.
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'I don't want to give a random guy my phone number, what if I have two conversations with him and we don't like each other?'
Her projects will play out on the upcoming season — along with the hardships of breaking up with a long term partner.
'I feel like this season was very emotional for me,' she stressed. 'I feel I'm normally not so emotional and I don't really share my downfalls sometimes or my darkest times. I feel like I'm more to share all the good things that I have going on more so than the negative things. But I feel this season I really relied on my friends. I feel that I really needed them. It was a hard time for me. I think when you are in a relationship and your kids are a part of it and it doesn't work out, it's just hard. It's hard on everyone.'
9 Jeff Coby and Larsa Pippen out in Miami in May.
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Luckily, Pippen had her friends and fellow co-stars to lean on during the hard time.
'On our show, because we've been friends and we're friends in real life, we see each other, we hang out all the time. It's like you could almost do anything to each other and be apologetic,' she continued. 'It's almost like your sister where you're gonna make up with the person. We have downfalls and we have problems, but at the end of the day, we really love each other. We come back.'
Although not everyone had the dating app co-founder's back during her split from Jordan.
'I feel like when people break up, it's kind of a hard situation. I never want to be in a situation where I speak negatively about someone that was in my past. It's not a good feeling for me. I don't like to bash someone that I'm not with anymore. I feel when I break up with someone, it's like, I wish you nothing but the best. And I kind of want to move on thinking about all the good times we had.'
9 Jeff Coby and Larsa Pippen arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Amazon MGM Studios 'The Accountant 2.'
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Which most certainly did not happen this time around.
'I feel the season was tough because it was like, I couldn't move on!' Pippen quipped. 'It was hard for me to move on because Lisa [Hochstein] kept bringing that person back into my sphere. That part was hard because I feel like when you're breaking up with someone, it's definitely better for your mental [health] to cut all ties, move forward and not have the person in your sphere. But when your friend is literally making it really hard for you — it was tough. I didn't want to show all the negative aspects of my previous relationship because of course there were good things. But I wasn't happy with how I couldn't just move on. I couldn't just cut the ties and move on.'
Pippen and Hochstein, 42, have been ride or dies for years, with the Fashion Nova ambassador supporting the mom-of-two throughout her split from ex-husband Lenny Hochstein last season.
9 Larsa Pippen.
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This time around, Pippen didn't feel she received the same support.
'No, I didn't get any of it. I'm such a good friend and I give my relationships a hundred percent no matter what I do. If it's with a significant other or my girlfriends,' she stated. 'I feel like when I don't get that reciprocated, it's hurtful. When you need someone and they're not there for you the same way, [and] you've been there for them for so long, it makes you feel bad.'
As relationships ebb and flow in Pippen's life, co-parenting with her ex-husband, Scottie Pippen, is at an all-time high.
'We're friends, we've always been friends,' she said. 'I feel like we have a great relationship. We talk about our kids, what benefits our kids, what's best for our kids. We don't really talk about our personal lives. I don't ask him about his stuff, he doesn't ask me about my stuff. I think our relationship is strictly based on our children.'
9 Larsa Pippen and Lisa Hochstein during the Season 5 reunion.
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Larsa and the retired basketball player, 59, were married for 24 years from 1997 to 2021 and share children Scotty Jr., 24, Preston, 22, Justin, 19, and Sophia, 16.
When it comes to putting her family on camera, Larsa leaves it up to each kid to decide for themselves.
'I kind of ask my kids,' she shared. 'I have a couple of kids that are athletes and they don't want the limelight. The only attention they want is on the basketball court. And I have to respect that. I let them shine where they want to shine. And I've a couple kids that don't mind being on camera. Preston and Sophia don't mind being camera, they like it.'
9 Larsa Pippen poses with her family.
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'So I kind put them on air with me,' she explained. 'I'm like, 'You guys, I have such great kids. I want the world to see my relationship with my kids and how great you guys are.' I feel like for Scotty and Justin, they're so private and they don't want the attention. They just want to focus on basketball. And I have to respect that.'
As the new season approaches, Larsa wants viewers to respect her and her family as they tune in.
'I share so much of my life and dating is not easy,' she said. 'And I feel like bringing someone into your life is not easy. It was a tough season for me just sharing so much of the emotional rollercoaster that I went through and leaving a relationship that I knew that I couldn't be a part of anymore. It was hard on me. It was hard to my family.'
'Real Housewives of Miami' returns Wednesday on Bravo at 9 p.m. ET.
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