Housewife without a house
The star’ s traded in her luxe life for a mobile home
Teri’s living in a van
She’s a Desperate Housewife by name and now it looks like Teri Hatcher is also one by name … although she’s missing the actual house!
Just six years ago, the actress was commanding $445,000 per episode for her role as hopeless romantic Susan Mayer on the smashhit soap opera, which costarred Eva Longoria, and living in a $2 million Los Angeles mansion. But now former Desperate
Housewives diva Teri, 53, a mother to 20-year-old daughter Emerson, appears to be living a far more humble life in her apple-green 1978 Volkswagen campervan.
Teri – who first set screens sizzling as Lois Lane in the hit ’90s show Lois&Clark:The New Adventures of Superman – is often seen chugging around LA in her vintage ge vehicle, where she films her YouTube series VanTherapy.
In the clips, she talks with everyday folk about everything from friendship to religion, but onlookers have recently begun to wonder if the small-screen icon has decided to fully embrace the magic of the flower-power era by moving into her hippie van full-time!
Just days after Teri was photographed hanging out in her van in her comfy jeans near Malibu Beach, her three-bedroom, four bathroom mansion was listed for rent.
Insiders say the star’s expenses have been building up and Hollywood isn’t exactly knocking down her door. Her latest role was a lowly paid gig on Supergirl, while her only movie project in the wings is the small-
budget crime comedy Madness in the Method.
Teri is currently in the UK, appearing as a contestant on reality show CelebrityGreat
BritishBakeOff, where she has revealed she’s dying for a Desperate Housewives reunion, saying, “I would be the first person to sign up. I never wanted it to be over.”
The star is asking a whopping $34,000 a month for her fully furnished estate, complete with swimming pool and glossy black piano.
“Teri doesn’t want other people renting out her home – who does?” says a close source. “But with Emerson at university and not much work coming in, it just made sense.”
A friend adds, “She’s isolated herself from a lot of people by spending all her time in her van. It must be a pretty lonely life.”