You may have seen Christa Billich as a regular guest on Real Housewives of Melbourne but what you probably didn’t know was that she and husband of 30 years, Charles Billich, have an open marriage.
I was interested in buying some figurative paintings…
I was familiar with Charles Billich’s lifestyle and some of his works, but I had never met him personally. A mutual friend introduced us and suggested that before I do anymore shopping, I should definitely go and see Billich’s work first. Billich was very well know and a familiar figure as the worst dressed man, plus a rather juicy socialite. When I came to his studio and he opened the door, my first reaction was ‘really this is supposed to be the playboy?’ I thought they were meant to have a lot more style and pizzazz. He prepared a fantastic lunch, with a lot of people in invited, and we settled down for a nice glass of Shiraz, which certainly made my decision of buying paintings a lot easier. And yes I did fall in love with his work immediately, and bought four of his figurative oil paintings.
He offered to do a sketch of me…
Generously, he suggested he would love to do a crayon sketch of me, upon his return from Italy, where he had a studio, escaping the Australian winter. True to his word, he arrived one evening on my doorstep, full of enthusiasm to complete the promised sketch. Flattered, even though I had never posed for an artist and certainly never in the nude, I was quite confident I could.
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Wait, he slept with the photographer on their WEDDING NIGHT, BEFORE the open marriage had been agreed to...?! THAT would have been a deal breaker for me! What a *****!!!
And exactly how 'open' is the marriage, does the wife sleep with other people, too...?
I think they are fortunate not to have contracted any sexual diseases(if they haven't, that is), and I find this all pretty sad, along with the plastic surgery the wife has obviously had... Seems to me like she is trying to keep up with the other women(now possibly a lot younger)...
If they are both mutually happy, no problem, but I don't think the wife is, I think she felt like she didn't have much of a choice...
What do those other women see in him anyway, he is not exactly Sean Connery...?! Oh, that's right, he has money...!
SAD.
Exactly! I don't have a problem with people having open relationships if both parties agree, although I don't think I could do it - but he betrayed her on their wedding night!
That shows a complete lack of respect for her! He then gives her an ultimatum - he's not going to stop cheating so deal with it or leave! This is not an example of a healthy open relationship.
I see it's only same sex marriages we don't judge here.
Why couldn't you? Would you rather divorce first? Would cheating be worse? Genuinely interested.
Um, I don't understand that comment? If this was a same-sex couple, I would still feel the same way about it. If you jointly agree to an 'open marriage', that's your choice, but here one partner cheated. It is cheating to sleep with someone else BEFORE you have agreed on an open marriage. Plus, it was their Wedding Day. Not to sound too traditional, but that is the day to celebrate your love and commitment to each other(even if you had decided the marriage would be 'open'). What the husband did here showed a complete lack of respect for his wife, and if I were in her shoes, I could not have forgiven him. I would have found it hurtful beyond belief, as well as humiliating.