The “Laguna Beach” alum wants to teach her kids an important lesson about money.

Kristin Cavallari makes her kids fly coach while she’s in first class because it’s ‘good for them’

The “Laguna Beach” alum wants to teach her kids an important lesson about money.

By Leigh Blickley

July 9, 2026 3:59 p.m. ET

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Kristin Cavallari

- Kristin Cavallari wants her kids to work for their money.

- She admitted she makes them sit in coach while she’s in first class so they can learn an important lesson about earning your lifestyle.

- She also spoke about balancing motherhood and running a business.

Kristin Cavallari wants her kids to learn the importance of money and working hard to achieve success.

That’s why she makes them work for what they want: including sitting in first class.

During an appearance on the *Aspire with Emma Grede* podcast on Tuesday, the *Laguna Beach* alum said her three kids with ex-husband Jay Cutler — Camden Jack, 13, Jaxon, 12, and Saylor, 10 — aren’t given anything just because they’re financially fortunate.

“My kids don’t just get whatever they want,” she told Emma Grede. “And if they want something, they have to work for it. So a good example is last summer, both of my boys created their own little businesses. So one of my boys was washing people’s windows. And the other one was washing people’s garbage cans. Because if they want something, they got to go work for it. And they got to make it happen.”

Kristin Cavallari and sons Camden and Jaxon.

Kristin Cavallari

Cavallari, 39, said she is hyper-aware that her kids are growing up in a cushy household —with a reality star-turned-business owner mom and former NFL player dad — so she wants them to know, “This is my money. This is not *your* money.”

“Something as small as they fly coach, I’m flying first class. That was important to me when they became old enough that they could,” she shared. “It’s not [difficult to do] when they’re older. I’m like, ‘Bye guys, have fun back there.’”

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Although she didn’t use that strategy when they were younger, Cavallari said now that her kids are growing up, she trusts that they’ll be “fine” alone in coach.

“It’s good for them,” she continued. “And I think it’s the little things like that as a parent that make, ultimately, I think, a big difference in the long run.”

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Cavallari puts a lot of focus on motherhood and her kids’ well-being, despite the stressful task of running successful lifestyle brand Uncommon James. She said they always come first and she makes sure to be out of her Nashville office by the time they’re home from school at around 3:30 p.m.

“I think there are so many ways to come into being a business woman and a mother and there is no one size fits all,” the cookbook author and podcaster added. “What works for me is very different from what will work for you.”

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