Businesswoman Ashley Darby is enthusiastic about the hospitality industry, charitable giving, and alternative medicine. Ashley is a fiery Maryland native who has always had a strong work ethic and a passion for success.
Ashley, the eldest of her family, worked multiple jobs as a teenager to help support her mother and her younger siblings. After turning 18, she supported herself and her family by studying and working as a bartender at the University of Maryland. When Ashley was tending bar, she caught the attention of the Miss District of Columbia Pageant, which led to her 2011 victory.
Ashley is a certified yoga instructor who believes that harmony between the body and the mind is the key to happiness. Ashley is learning to strike a balance between love, family, business, and motherhood despite having the time of her life.
Her love life, you ask? She has a stellar reputation in the yoga community and is a total sweetheart. So many people’s hearts must have been broken, and we’ll see that here.
Gulbranson, Luke.
A major relationship milestone for Ashley Darby and Luke Gulbranson was reached just a few months after they first met in person at BravoCon 2022: they finally met each other’s families (well, his family).
Ashley and the Winter House cast member have been dating since October, and they’ve been sharing hints about their time together ever since. They’ve been seen together at ice hockey and football games, in Washington, D.C., and at a New York City holiday party. With this trip to Minnesota, Ashley can now say she has visited Luke in his home state.
Ashley also discussed her divorce from Michael Darby and the overwhelming fan support she’s received since beginning a relationship with Luke.
M. Darby, Michael
Darby has been on the cast of The Real Housewives of Potomac ever since it premiered. In the first few seasons, the show mainly followed her as she tried to conceive a child and ran her and her husband Oz’s Australian-themed restaurant. When it finally closed in June of 2019, the restaurant had been struggling for nearly four years.
Ashley Darby wed Michael Darby, a prominent Australian restaurateur and real estate investor, in May 2014.
Dean Michael Darby, her first child, was born on July 7, 2019. Darby had the “postpartum blues” and postpartum depression in the first month after giving birth to her son, and she was very open about it. Dylan Matthew Darby, their second son, was born in March of 2021. After almost 8 years of marriage, Darby and Darby announced their split in April 2022.
