Victoria De Lesseps, the Miami housewife dubbed the “Countess” on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Miami, carried herself with an air of superiority over her “less cultured” co-stars. But what exactly is Countess Luann’s educational pedigree? Let’s examine where she went to college.
Despite insinuating exotic European roots, Victoria De Lesseps was raised in Connecticut. For college, she attended:
- Boston College: She earned a nursing degree from BC in the early 1980s.
- Katharine Gibbs School: She later studied at this two-year vocational school focused on secretarial skills.
- Never studied abroad or attended college overseas, despite implications otherwise.
- Her countess title comes from a very brief 1993 marriage to Count Alexandre de Lesseps, not any aristocratic background.
In truth, Victoria’s college years at Boston College and Gibbs were quite ordinary. She embraced an exaggerated “countess” image after marrying into very minor European nobility for under a year.
Victoria de Lesseps’ college background was a straightforward nursing degree from Boston College and some vocational training. Her lofty credentials exist mostly in her imagination and Bravo publicity.