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Victoria Gunvalson (née Steinmetz; formerly Wolfsmith; born March 27, 1962) is an American reality television personality and Businesspeople. She was an original cast member of the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOC), appearing in 16 of the 19 seasons since its 2006 premiere. She is the founder and CEO of Coto Insurance.
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In June 2022, Gunvalson starred in the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a spin-off with various women from The Real Housewives franchise, which premiered on Peacock. She was to star in the fifth season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, which was to premiere in 2024.
In 2020, she hosted a podcast titled Whoop It Up with Vicki. In 2025 she co-hosts a podcast with Christian Gray Snow titled My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast with the Hurrdat Media Network.
Gunvalson owns an insurance agency in Coto de Caza, California.
She married her first husband Michael J. Wolfsmith at the age of 21, and they had two children. At the age of 29, they divorced and she began a part-time job at her father's construction company.
In 1991, after her father's death from Alzheimer's disease, she joined the health insurance business. In 1994, she married Donn Gunvalson and founded Coto Insurance and Financial Services, after obtaining her insurance license in California. Vicki and Donn divorced in 2014.
During the tenth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2015, Gunvalson dated Brooks Ayers. It was revealed that Ayers' claim that he had cancer, which was a storyline throughout the season, was untrue, and that Gunvalson had been Confidence trick. Ayers admitted that he had fabricated the documents "to 'prove' to the world that I, in fact, have cancer."
Vicki was engaged to Steve Lodge, brother of Roger Lodge, from April 2019 until September 2021.
In November 2021, Gunvalson revealed that she had recently had cancer.
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