Brooks Nader’s Most Relatable Moments: Normalizing Period Stains and More

Brooks Nader has proved time and time again that she’s just like Us.

After being eliminated from Dancing With the Stars season 33, Nader reunited with former partner and ex Gleb Savchenko while he was on the road for the show’s live tour — and got candid about the logistics of fitting two people in a twin bed. (Us Weekly confirmed in April 2025 that Nader and Savchenko had called it quits on their whirlwind romance.)

“He was so funny because we were in the one twin bunk or whatever on the bus and he, the night before, was like, ‘I’ve been practicing how I’m going to sleep with my arms up like a sliver just so that you could have room,’” she told People in February 2025. “And he slept on the edge so that I didn’t fall off. What a gentleman. Chivalry. Get you a man who sleeps on the edge of the tour bus bed.”

Later that year, Nader suffered a wardrobe malfunction at Wimbledon when she unexpectedly started her period while wearing a long white skirt. Nader shared a TikTok video at the time of her wearing a cap-sleeve black blouse with the skirt, spinning around to show a small blood stain. “Tries to be chic,” Nader wrote at the time. “Starts at Wimbledon.” She added in her caption, “Of course #wimbledon.”

Scroll down to see more of Nader’s most relatable moments:

Surviving an Embarrassing 1st Date

Nader opened up about her first date with Billy Haire, whom she ultimately married in 2019, at a restaurant in New York City. (Us confirmed in 2024 that the pair had separated.)

“I ate like my first bite of sushi — he already had everything ordered—and I sprinted to the bathroom and I was projectile vomiting everywhere,” she said to Sports Illustrated Lifestyle in November 2022. “Because I got really sick, I had a stomach disease that I didn’t know about.”

Nader continued, “The waitress went back to the table and said, ‘Your date’s in the bathroom having a really rough time.’ Didn’t specify throw up or what it was. Then I sprinted out of the date and he thought that I just didn’t like him, and that was my way of getting out of it. But I did like him at the time, and I do now. There were many dates after that — he was totally hooked after I sprinted out throwing up.”

Navigating Life After Divorce

Nader shared that she repurposed her engagement ring after being spotted wearing the jewelry on her finger.

“This is my divorce ring,” she told People in December 2024. “A 9-carat offset pear on a simple gold band — that I designed with my longtime jeweler, Ring Concierge. Why should guys have all the fun? It’s my way of celebrating the next chapter of my life. Women deserve to buy themselves something fabulous just because, so why not a sick divorce ring?!”

Sleeping in Bunk Beds

Gleb Savchenko and Brooks Nader Jerod Harris/Getty Images for PXG)

While visiting Savchenko on tour, Nader revealed that her sisters “made so much fun” of her.

“They were like, ‘You have things to do. You have shoots. What are you doing sleeping in a bunk?’ And I did. I slept in the bunk with them for one night on the road. I wanted to be a road dog for a night. And I went to one of the shows and it was so much fun,” she told People in February 2025. “I’ve always wanted to sleep on a tour bus for a night, and we fit great in that bunk. It was so cozy!”

Suffering Sister Squabbles

She publicly got into it with her sister when Grace Ann revealed on a May 2025 episode of the “Chicks in the Office” podcast that Nader and Savchenko would frequently have sex on the Dancing With the Stars set.

“Every time I visited Brooks’ trailer — [it] was shaking every single time,” Grace Ann said at the time. “I never wanted to go in there. I was always knocking. He was always at our house, it was just a lot. So, I think it was very real.”

In the aftermath of that reveal, Nader quipped to Us that she hadn’t spoken to her sister since the interview.

“I don’t plan to speak to her ever again, maybe. Although, it’s hard because we’re filming a show together. Lemme check back in with you in a few weeks and tell you how that’s going,” she said, referring to the sisters’ Love Thy Nader Hulu show. “That was crazy. She’s in trouble [and] she’s in the dog house — big time.”

Normalizing Period Stains

Brooks Nader Karwai Tang/WireImage

As Nader displayed her small blood stain on her long white skirt at Wimbledon in July 2025, her followers praised her candidness. When one user joked that the incident happened “the one time” she chose to wear “something non-sheer and maxi,” Nader replied, “LITERALLY. Back to sheer.”