Eva Amurri: Turning a New Leaf with Home Renovation YouTube Series
The versatile Eva Amurri is taking us through the tumultuous yet adventurous ride of her life lately – shifting homes to Connecticut, a surprising divorce during pregnancy, and embracing a whole new life through remarriage and wildcard career shift. Recently, Amurri presented a new YouTube series documenting her foray into home renovation in Connecticut. Her mantra: being in charge of her own life, reflects her strong resilience towards change. She had quite a few chapters rewritten in her life’s book over the recent years.
Amurri’s transition to Connecticut was initially prompted by her ex-husband’s career change. Then, as the infamous pandemic hit the world, it brought the film and television industry to a halt and nudged Amurri into exploring different career routes. The journey took an unexpected turn with her pregnancy, followed by a divorce in the midst of it. A new relationship began, which flourished into a marriage in 2025.
Currently, Amurri dons the hat of a career woman with a novel YouTube series documenting her latest ventures. Home renovation is her new found passion. Her focus rests on upscaling a residential property in Westport, Connecticut, under the expert guidance of her design team, along with a group of constructors led by her friend and builder, Chris O’Dell.
O’Dell stepped into Amurri’s life eight years back when she and her ex-husband appointed him for their home renovation in Westport. During the pandemic, Amurri filled the gaps in her finances by venturing into marketing jobs. This is when she reconnected with O’Dell. In the course of their casual conversations, O’Dell made a passing comment about uniting their talents on another home project – an avant-garde vision of combining wellness, technology, and aesthetic appeal in a smart home.
Not just confined to appearing in the series, Amurri juggles multiple roles of the director and producer. This decision was deliberate – her intention was to capture the complete journey of this smart-home, starting from its conception to its grand sale in the market. This venture signifies a milestone in Amurri’s life that has been marked by years of self-reinvention.
Amurri set her foot in the sphere of lifestyle content a decade ago, when she created her brand ‘Happily Eva After’. It was her desire for something more fulfilling that guided her towards lifestyle content creation. As she explains, ‘We shouldn’t tell our children to seek satisfaction, inspiration, and connection in their endeavours while being unable to embody these values in our own lives. Anything else would seem hypocritical and dull.’
Guided by this philosophy, she resolute towards giving her life a comprehensive makeover. There ensued a steep learning curve where she familiarized herself with the digital landscape, as she admits, ‘It’s like an inside joke that I learned the internet from scratch. I didn’t have any prior expertise related to online platforms.’ Subsequently, her brand became a significant source of income, especially after her divorce.
She sheds light on her February 2020 divorce from former soccer player Kyle Martino – a chapter that ended just before the entry of their third child, Mateo, born in March. ‘It was indeed strange when the industry was undergoing lockdown. Things took a turn for the worse when I lost representation after my agency dropped me due to the sacking of my manager.’
Comparing her journey to a rollercoaster ride, she explains to people about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and normalizes the inevitable failures or ‘flop eras’ as she calls them. However, Amurri’s so-called ‘flop era’ was not much of a fiasco but a phase of growth, thanks to her lifestyle brand, which helped her thrive as a content creator, even as the pandemic brought Hollywood to a standstill.
Amurri, a proud mother of three children with Martino – Marlowe Mae, 10, Major James, 8, and Mateo Antoni, 5 – observes, ‘Life takes surprising turns, and you need to adapt accordingly. No one enters matrimony or starts a family with the intent of divorce. But I was fortunate to have income streaming in from content creation during that phase. Above all, I believe in perpetual learning and evolution.’
On reflection, Amurri feels a deep sense of satisfaction looking at her journey spanning over a decade with her lifestyle brand ‘Happily Eva After’ and the personal upheavals she waded through successfully. Undeterred by public scrutiny and criticism about her fashion choices or talks about her lineage, she chooses to stay aloof from the noise.
What Amurri displays remarkably well is her resilience. She never stops. ‘No matter what happens, I keep going. It’s easy to hit a low point in life and assume that you are not cut out for it or you are not enough. But you have to keep moving, so I never stopped and allowed myself to evolve and change with time.’