Susan Sarandon’s daughter Eva Amurri opened up about why she offered the “historic” Westport, Connecticut house she spent two years renovating.
“Though [the home] was actually stunning, we had been in search of a change after [her husband Ian Hock] and I received engaged. We wished one thing that was ours collectively, not one which I had been residing in once I met him,” Amurri, 40, informed Realtor.com in an interview revealed on Thursday, June 12. “So we put the final home available on the market and it offered the primary weekend, and abruptly I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God! Like, what do I do?’”
Shifting away was an enormous choice for Amurri and her husband as a result of she’d “fully overhauled” their historic house throughout the intensive renovation course of.
Eva – who’s the daughter of Oscar winner Sarandon and Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri – recalled being unexpectedly thrown into the “loopy” world of home searching earlier than lastly discovering a new construction that was “the right dimension for [her] very giant household.” (The previous Californication star and ex-husband Kyle Martino share two sons, Main and Mateo, born in 2016 and 2020 respectively, and a daughter, Marlowe, born in 2014. Amurri and Martino divorced in 2020 after 9 years of marriage.)
“[Our new home] was great, however it was very plain,” she mentioned. “Should you see any of my properties or images that I’ve shared on my blog, you’ll be able to see, that’s not my model. I’ve a really eclectic, modern design model.”
She went on, “I wish to have plenty of enjoyable with my inside design, and so I knew once I noticed [the home] that it was going to be a big challenge — definitely an amazing challenge – but in addition a extremely enjoyable challenge, as a result of I used to be capable of begin with way more of a clean slate than in another house that I’d had.”
“We’ve now been on this house for 2 years, and it’s been actually thrilling to fine-tune how we need to really feel in each area that we dwell in as a household,” she added. “We’re in an amazing place with this home, and I’ve positively had a lot enjoyable designing it and, in fact, much more so now that I’ve a furnishings line.”

Eva Amurri in Could 2019. Theo Wargo/Getty Photographs for BAM
Amurri launched a signature furniture line in collaboration with Benchmade Trendy in June 2024. She is going to subsequent put her intensive house design expertise to make use of in The Westport Project, a brand new internet sequence the place she builds a Westport “spec home” from the bottom up. (The Westport Challenge premieres on Thursday, June 26, on YouTube.)
Elsewhere, the actress tied the knot with Hock in a French garden party-themed ceremony in Hudson Valley, New York in June 2024 after getting engaged in Paris the earlier yr.
Previous to her marriage ceremony, Amurri completely informed Us Weekly that she wished a “sexier” Kim Kassas marriage ceremony gown for her second journey down the aisle. She later poked enjoyable at anybody who was “scandalized by [her] breasts not being ‘put away’” on her marriage ceremony day by sharing a close-up photograph of her cleavage in her strapless robe.
“Be at liberty to screenshot this for later,” she joked through Instagram on the time.
In April, Amurri introduced to her social media followers that she’d undergone a breast discount process however was battling the bodily toll of the surgical procedure.
“Apparently random bruising can present up throughout the therapeutic course of!” she wrote to followers. “It’s been unusual to see my physique bruised and recovering from trauma. It’s not a simple sight, and it’s positively introduced up quite a bit for me. I’m these subsequent few weeks as an amazing alternative to be sort to myself and nurture myself.”
When followers expressed concern about her situation, Amurri assured them that she was centered on “self-care” throughout her restoration interval.
“Nourishing my physique throughout this therapeutic time has felt like the most effective type of self-care,” she wrote. “I’ve actually been having fun with serving to my physique heal by giving it what it must really feel finest.”