Tamara Jaber's Life Without Kyle

This time last year the singer was enjoying sequinned success as a Dancing with the Stars front runner, promoting her music as half of the pop duet Scarlett Belle and simultaneously dealing with the heartbreak and subsequent media interest following her break-up.

‘Going through a divorce was very, very, very difficult, I had no idea. I was smiling for the camera but I was dying inside,’ admits the Aussie star, speaking exclusively to New Idea from her LA home.

Living in LA has long been a dream of Tamara’s. The move, along with the process of penning a solo album, are all part of the healing process following the breakdown of her 10-year relationship.

Now living in a city apartment, the songbird, who first found fame on reality TV show Popstars in 2001, says her new home is worlds away from the ones she once shared with radio star Kyle.

‘With Kyle I always lived in palatial mansions – it’s always been marble floors and decadence galore,’ says Tamara, who moved in to her new apartment just one week before our shoot. ‘I wanted to feel what it was like to be an adult and be single or be young, not be in a mansion. Every single thing I picked for this house is a representation of me.’

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