The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum took to Instagram on Christmas Day Wednesday to share how she was faring as she celebrated her first vacation with out her youngsters amid her divorce from estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave.

“In my Bridget Jones period,” she captioned a video of herself in pajamas singing Jamie O’Neal’s “All By Myself,” a nod to Renée Zellweger’s iconic character within the 2001 romantic comedy. “If I don’t snicker at myself, I’d cry,” she added.

Sharing that her children, Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 4, had been with their dad for the day, Mellencamp continued, “I do know they’re in nice arms with an incredible dad, however that does not imply I can not really feel some sort of method.”

“Ordered $64 of Thai meals, consuming cookie dough (who has time to bake) and watched 9 episodes of Lioness,” she added, additionally sharing a clip from Bridget Jones’ Diary in a second slide.

The 43-year-old, who can also be a stepmother to Arroyave’s 15-year-old daughter, Bella, additionally used the submit to name on different dad and mom experiencing one thing comparable this vacation season, writing, “To all my dad and mom on the market going via this. I like you. What are all the ideas for powering via?”

And she or he bought some useful ideas, with Jana Kramer, Real Housewives of Dubai star, Caroline Stanbury, and her longtime buddy and RHOBH star Kyle Richards all chiming in.

“The primary one was brutal and I want I may say it will get simpler however even a brand new husband and a child and it is nonetheless not regular to not have all of your infants underneath one roof on Christmas,” Kramer wrote within the feedback. “Sending love. You bought this momma.”

“It will get simpler and now i’m sitting with my children and my ex husband having an incredible christmas once more,” Stanbury added.

Richards, in the meantime, poked enjoyable at the truth that Mellencamp recorded the video from the fact TV star’s bed room, the place she was staying whereas her children had been away.

“Ted! Additionally, watching you do that in my bed room is making me LOL Love you xx,” she quipped.

The submit comes two months after Mellencamp introduced that she and Arroyave had damaged up after 13 years of marriage.

“After an excessive amount of care and consideration, I’ve made the troublesome resolution to file for divorce,” she wrote on Instagram. Nov 2. “My precedence is my youngsters and making certain that each care is taken with their privateness and wellbeing all through this new chapter.”

“Making a public assertion shouldn’t be one thing I needed to do however in an effort to guard my household from undue hypothesis and rumors,” she continued, “I felt being open, sincere and susceptible was the most effective path ahead.”

Discussing their cut up on her Two T’s in a Pod podcast with Tamra Decide, Mellencamp stated that the “largest” precedence for her within the wake of the divorce stays their youngsters.

“I do know that I’m gonna preserve engaged on feeling my greatest in order that I can present up the most effective for my children and my life and my work,” she shared on a November episode of the pod. “I believe that is the most important factor for me proper now.”