Vanderpump Rules’ Raquel Leviss Changes Name to Rachel on IG

Raquel Leviss has returned to her delivery title, “Rachel,” on Instagram.

Weeks after confirming on Bethenny Frankel‘s podcast that she was going “again to her roots” and beginning to go by “Rachel” as soon as once more, the Vanderpump Guidelines alum, 29, who give up the present in August, up to date her Instagram bio to mirror her moniker and revealed she’s in her “therapeutic period.”

“I’m actually simply making an attempt to return again to my roots, and I’m introducing myself as Rachel,” Raquel introduced on Simply B With Bethenny, noting that she “wasn’t comfy” in her personal pores and skin and “wished to be any person higher.”

As Pump Guidelines followers will recall, Raquel underwent three months of psychological well being therapy at The Meadows in Arizona after her months-long affair with Tom Sandoval, 40, the now-ex-boyfriend of her shut pal and castmate, Ariana Madix, 38, was uncovered.

Additionally on the podcast, Raquel defined how her nickname took place.

“There have been a couple of different Rachels in my class, and I wished to be particular,” she shared. “The title has caught ever since. My mates at all times referred to as me Raquel, and my household calls me Rachel, so I reply to each.”

Months after her revelations, Web page Six confirmed Raquel had made her return to the title “Rachel” official on her social media account.

“Raquel Leviss has formally modified her Instagram username to her authorized title, Rachel Leviss, after deciding to go by Rachel,” the outlet introduced on Instagram on September 18.

As she up to date her Instagram bio and username to mirror the title “Rachel Leviss,” Raquel additionally added a phrase, which stated she is in her “therapeutic period.”

Whereas Raquel had been in talks for a possible return to Pump Guidelines, she advised Bethenny, 52, on her podcast that she’d opted out months into manufacturing.

“I refuse to not respect myself on that degree the place I’d endure that emotional abuse any longer,” she defined. “I can’t try this to myself. They need me again [but] I do know that different individuals on the solid are extra necessary than I’m so I don’t even suppose that I’d get a redemption arc… I additionally know that I wouldn’t be capable of share all of my story.”

Raquel was additionally unwilling to return for lower than what her co-stars, particularly Sandoval and Ariana, have been making.

“I requested for equal pay … and for them to reimburse me for my therapy bills, however they refused to pay me equally,” she revealed. “I used to be contemplating going again if I used to be going to be paid equally as a result of I really feel like once you pay your workers I feel it actually exhibits how a lot you worth them.”

Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 wrapped filming earlier this month and is anticipated to premiere later this yr or early subsequent yr.