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Yep, if you block the crazy, they'll just call from another number you might not recognize. If you just let them go to voicemail, then, well it's not your fault you are a busy person . . .

No it was delusions of grandeur. She was though, she got busted for violating her probation with mimosas and also for not blowing into her device at her scheduled times. Which you'd only not do if you weren't able to. Dorinda was asked about the fight that Sonja and Tinsley had at Pride. Dorinda said she was glad she left to go home early because Sonja is a "peak-to-sooner." She said that when Sonja put her leg over the edge of the float and Tinsley collapsed on the floor, she knew it was time to head out. Then at kind of the same time, Andy said that he was up on the top of the float dj-ing and that Dorinda came up to him and said that Sonja was a peak-to-sooner and had been drunk since first thing that am. Dorinda said she came up to try to get a couple of minutes with Andy, and he told her to hang out with him, but she told him she had to go back down and take care of Sonja because she was hammered, as she'd started drinking early on and it was also 90 degrees out and things were falling apart. There wasn't anything about peeing, though. It's ok, she was lying, so it's not like anyone should feel bad about the reaction. Lu really only thinks about herself. She could have made arrangements for someone to notify her, I'm sure she had some sort of assistants there for the day, who could have waved when the time was getting close, or there was someone in production who could have let Andy know. Or hell, tell Andy, so he could know. You can pretty much see the gears turn in Lu's brain when she realizes that she has to try to say something that is appropriate but it's going against her natural instinct. She can sort of sense that this is the time where someone else would feel something, that this is the opening for her to have concern for a friend, care about their opinions, etc, and she is searching her brain for the right phrasing to try and use. She doesn't get why people were upset with her, she can't figure out why they aren't there to support her. When they all settled their differences, her response wasn't something along the lines of, I'm glad to have worked everything out, I didn't mean to be selfish and I love my friends. It was "I'm glad to have my cheerleaders back" It is ALL about her. It always will be. She'd simply tell you that they are European and people in Europe do things differently. Having some wine here and there when you are pregnant is ok in Europe! (Or so someone said on the Potomac housewives this past weekend, I don't know) Exactly. You could ask someone in production to flag you down from behind the camera. You could have Andy remind you. Andy has an earpiece in, so have someone tell Andy, so he knows to call a break. Hell, she yanked her cellphone out earlier, she could do what any number of other hos have done and tucked it under her leg, away from the camera. All she would have to do is set an alarm, put it on vibrate and she'd have been good. If she set it like 15 mins early and then let Andy know, she could have waited for an opening and then said quietly, "it's time" and they could have taken a break. Nope, this had to be about her. When you have severe TMJ, the masseter muscle gets WAY overdeveloped. It's like any other muscle, and it changes shape. I have major TMJ issues and I've had 2 procedures on my jaw (do NOT recommend), multiple nightguards, PT, and have even snapped a nightguard in half within a week of getting it, because of how much I clench my teeth. My face shape has changed dramatically, I am way more squared off than I used to be, and it's because of the masseter muscles. Botox paralyzes the muscle and without it being used, it atrophies and shrinks. It's on my bucket list once I have the rest of the problem under control. Lu has apparently been trying to get cast in Chicago for a decade now. The show, however, wants nothing to do with her after her last few years of drama. Lu is the one claiming that they couldn't work things out due to scheduling, it's her way of backpedaling out of the announcement she made when she had no deal at all.

It's a thing. Many people have no issue with weed, just like many people have no issue with alcohol, but for some people it is a problem. Not to mention they pre-gamed and were stoned before the chef got there. And then they started downing the CBD wine. THEN they had the meal. When you start spooning the laced butter into your mouth like it's soup, dude, it's time to call it a night. I actually don't think Craig was wrong here, though. Normally I'm the first one to say Craig is an asshole, but his point to Whitney was that Kathryn is your friend and something you said hurt her. Even if Whitney stands by the substance of what he says, the way he said it was hurtful and if Kathryn IS his friend, then he should want to clear that up at least. Sometimes what I say comes out harsher than I meant it to, I still mean what I said, though. Like the time I told my BFF that the dress she was trying on made her look like a pear. (I was a teenager, it wasn't my finest moment) In retrospect, the problem was the dress and not her, and if I could do it over again, I would simply say that it's not my favorite dress on her and I think the other one was more flattering. So I AM sorry for the way I said it, but, it did make her look like a pear, and I stand by the fact that it wasn't the dress for her. Whitney needs to clean up the way he said what he said, if he does feel that Kathryn is his friend. Of course, Craig screaming about how Whitney denies having sex with Kathryn isn't the most delicate way to handle things. I was like, umm, props for standing up for her, but you just put her on blast. I also thought his point with "It doesn't cost you anything" was valid, in that all he had to do was apologize for his phrasing. It really doesn't cost anything to be kind. I do think they should have checked with Kathryn to make sure she was ok with them having this dinner. Her issues are pretty well known and while she hasn't had an issue with them drinking, this is a different subject altogether. It wouldn't have been a big deal to just ask her if it would be a problem. There is no way in the world that it would be amusing to hang out with Shep and Austin with the way they were acting. I was irritated and ready to just turn the show off because it wasn't cute or funny, and I wasn't stuck dealing with them at the meal. I can see how Kathryn got up and left, you could see that Cameran was over it as well. I also think it would have been super easy to arrange a second thing, which they do all the time on shows. An infused dinner for those who want to partake and then a different dinner, maybe something at a restaurant or some special theme for those who didn't. It would have completely avoided the issues. I think Kathryn has some kind of hairpiece she puts in, that is on a comb and she's constantly trying to make sure that it's still in place. Danni has the same look to me as Star Jones did after she had her weight loss surgery. I miss that show! He grabbed Chelsea and tried to kiss her. Then he apologized to Austen for it, but not really Cheslea. He makes fun of Austen for it now, because he grabbed his girlfriend and Austen didn't do anything. So you know when not to pick up the phone?

I am pretty sure that this is the real Shep. He will stand up for a friend of his here and there, but generally he is entitled/snooty/judgmental. And for the most part he's just drunk/wasted more often and the real him is seeping out. The charm/alcohol balance is now more parts alcohol to fewer parts charm. It was always a slim margin of charm over alcohol before, where the charm won out during the day, now the alcohol wins pretty much all the time. Craig likely was kept on a pretty tight leash by his parents, they kept him on task growing up and he never really learned how to do stuff on his own. This is the result of him not having any sort of self discipline and being in over his head. He's not dumb and he would be a nightmare for a therapist because he can talk his way out of things, so he was likely able to coast through college pretty easily. Now that he's in a position where he has to have actual deadlines and accountability, the wheels come off and he ends up living like Craig. Whitney doesn't have a problem talking about stuff that happens off of the show for other people, though. He was more than happy to talk about Kathryn's past issues that happened off screen. It's just his own that he doesn't want to discuss, which is pretty shitty. The type of land Shep was looking at isn't all that different from the marshes of Hilton Head or some of the marsh islands by Savannah. It isn't impossible to develop, though it is likely to become increasingly problematic as storm surge becomes a bigger and bigger issue with hurricanes. So cameras add 20 pounds and a bunch of asshole now? His tongue and his ego.

I wouldn't really think twice about Naomi not wanting to go on the trip because of her relationship if we didn't have all of the other scenes of Metul being a dick. When they're all put together, it seems like a pretty bad pattern and makes it seem like he's controlling and she is perhaps afraid that if she went on the trip he would have an issue with it and the relationship would end. On the other hand, if we just saw them doing the stuff we've seen so far without the negative comments, and then she said that it was a new relationship, Craig is volatile and she just wasn't ready to do a trip with him at this point, I'd be like, ok, that makes sense to me. I can see that. We saw them go through therapy, where they discussed their issues and Naomi said that if things didn't change, she couldn't keep going with the relationship. We saw Craig continue to belittle her and treat her like a child. We also saw the meeting they had at a restaurant, it was outdoors, and she ended up getting up and walking away, clearly saying "I'm done, I can't do this anymore" Craig may feel like he didn't have closure, but that's because things didn't happen on the very limited terms that Craig decided they needed to be. He simply doesn't accept anything that isn't within the realm of his reality. Like a deadline, if Patricia said I need pillows by this time, he's like, but what does it matter if I get it to you in 2 more months? That's just an arbitrary rule you're setting. So they did have the closure conversations multiple times, he just doesn't accept them and feels he can continue to demand that they have them until he is satisfied. If Naomi won't give in and have them, it must mean she still wants him because she can't face being with him. And there, in a nutshell is the problem they had in the first place, everything gets twisted into Craig's reality, if he doesn't agree, he is just going to insist and try to wear you down until you give in.

I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't discuss the eating disorder of Rinna's daughter. If her daughter wanted to keep that quiet and off camera, I think that would be fine, as long as we didn't have the whole family bbq scene, and Rinna had some other kind of storyline. Rinna is the primary person, it's a pretty personal thing for her daughter, I could see skipping that particular topic. But we've seen The Agency for years and years. The lawsuit against it is all over the place and yet we have to pretend that it's not happening? Even while you go and take lunch to Mauricio and your kids and we have to see multiple parties for the place? Nope. You don’t get to build the place up with a free commercial without also letting us know that it might be fraudulent. Also with Rinna, maybe we should have left Nicolette out? She isn't on the show, has nothing to do with it and yet somehow Rinna started an entire war with her for no particular reason.

She has no training or certification. She started the whole thing because she had an instagram account that she was posting her own progress on to keep herself accountable, and then people would follow her and post their stuff. Then she had them text, etc. You have to commit to one hour per day of activity. Meals must be eaten by certain times, breakfast by 10 am, lunch by 2 pm and dinner by 8 pm. You have to weigh in each morning. When she did it with Jeff Lewis, he had a 2 week meal plan, but I don't know if it was because of his weight that he wanted to lose (I think it was 8-10 pounds), or if she has an induction type of phase. There is no alcohol, and she had him cut a bunch of other stuff out, but I don’t remember the rest. If you google, you will find a lot of references to people who have had to sign NDAs and can't release what the actual diet plan is, but that they were eating around 400-500 calories per day. Teddi's response was that her plan does not discuss calories, which isn't exactly a denial of the claim, because the foods recommended could add up to 400-500 calories and not specify that they are that many calories, and she'd be right.

But then why did the buyer (ie, Mauricio Umansky), make a counter offer to the person who sent a letter of intent? If the contract is legally binding, why would the buyer be negotiating on their end? And since Mauricio was the buyer, he clearly had knowledge that they could potentially have a higher priced offer, which makes him responsible for notifying his client. His first duty is to them, not himself. Nope, it was not. One of the contentions is that Mauricio Umansky pushed the sellers to take the offer from Mauricio O (and, unknowingly, Mauricio U), without the required $1 million deposit. He also pushed them to continue to extend the escrow time period while Mauricio O (and, again, himself), obtained the financing. All while not disclosing that he was a purchaser on the property. It was a secret until the time the property went up for sale at $70 million. It was never revealed when the property was initially sold by Mauricio and the Agency to Mauricio O and Mauricio U. They hid that. It was only revealed when it was listed. Yep. We just need a clip of Camille saying "You're such a fucking liar KYLE!"

She says that she is an accountability coach. Jeff Lewis (Flipping Out also on Bravo), hired her on his show and she came on and gave him the rules for the plan. It has a specific diet that you have to follow and you have to text pics of your meals, your weigh in and your work out details each day. If you miss you are out of the program. There is nothing to stop you from eating something that you don't text, but if you don't trend down, then you can also be dropped. She does not give refunds. In some ways, I can see hiring someone like her as a jump start. Sometimes people need a bit of a push to make a change. Some people have a workout buddy, maybe you walk with a neighbor 3 mornings a week. Some people need the meetings of Weight Watchers to keep them "honest" on their diets. I get that. The issue Teddi may have is that being a health coach/accountability coach/someone who recommends diet/nutrition/exercise programs is regulated differently in different states. When I spent 5 minutes googling it yesterday I came across an article where a woman was in trouble because she was a fitness instructor and when she lived and worked in California, she would give her clients advice on how to eat. It was legal for her there. However, she moved to another state and did the same thing. In that state, she was fine to give the exercise advice, but nutrition advice is regulated and since she didn't have the required licensing (wasn't a dietitian), she was violating the law and was in trouble. That's where Teddi may run into issues, as you aren't automatically covered by your license/laws in one state to "practice" in another. You have to follow the rules/laws of that state, too.

Kyle has been trying to make her happen for years. Especially this season with pushing her aspirations of being a makeup artist by showcasing her work on Teddi, etc. But hey, kids are off limits unless you can profit, right? Is this the proof that Kyle and Teddi promised all along? I don't think it's going the way they thought it would. LOL! This more than anything shows that Kyle and Teddi were pushing an agenda from the beginning, and not LVP trying to out Dorit and play puppet master. Funny how there are receipts that don't back their versions. Exactly. All Kyle would have had to say, calmly, is "Mauricio didn't scam anyone, of course. There is a pending legal matter and it is being handled. We're confident that everything will be resolved, but as you know, you can't discuss something that is pending." And then shut up. Attacking fans of the show is always a bad look. They might not be YOUR fans, but they still watch the show. And you never know when you're going to piss off someone who is your fan by being an asshole. I've always been a fan of Erika, for example. I like that she has generally stayed out of the petty bullshit and while I think she can snap someone's head off at times, I've understood why she would have a bit of a sensitive spot when it came to her son and him being a cop. I also would be upset if someone was twisting my words (like Teddi and the pretend amnesia), and then tried to make it sound as if I was the one lying. But this season? I'm not a fan, as she has just gone full on LVP hate and it's pretty much out of nowhere. She can not like her, that's fine, but to suddenly be mean girl co-signing the whole "a dark cloud has been lifted" and "I feel we can all be open NOW" is just BS and I can't with her anymore. I think Heather Dubrow did this well with her kids, other than Coco when she was a toddler, they were in the background, but not ever really featured as characters. I think the kids should be able to have their own lives off of the show, even if their parents choose to be on it. Nah, they'd be sitting there in the same house calling her together, like you did when you were in 6th grade. So they can totally meal girl Dorit.

Thought you might have hiccups, so just wanted to help!

As a kid of the 80s, I lean more towards the cabbage patch theory. But I'm with you!

The buyer was Mauricio Umansky. Who was also the agent representing the seller. See the problem? He had a duty to the seller, as he was representing him. They (the buyers), countered the offer to the buyers, but neglected to inform the sellers or the DOJ. This is a major problem, given that Mauricio Umansky was also a buyer. And that fact (that Mauricio Umansky was one of the buyers), was something else not disclosed to the seller or the DOJ. If I hire someone to do a job for me, like sell my house, I am trusting that they are representing MY interests above everything else. Not that they are looking to snap up the best price on a deal for themselves. And we don't know what they did renovation wise. The articles all say "spent millions" on renovations, but nowhere does it say "We spent $15M renovating the pool, putting a new roof, a new furnace, adding a guest house, blah, blah, blah" That might actually justify doubling the price of the property somewhat if they could cogently say, we bought the property (other than Mauricio not disclosing that he was a buyer and all), for $32M and then spent $20M doing this, we gutted the house, added this, did all of that, and now we've turned it into this, which makes it worth $70M. But that explanation has never happened, which honestly makes me wonder what actually was done, given that you'd think as realtors they'd pretty much be bragging about the improvements everywhere. It is the simplest defense to justify the purchase price.

Actually, she's probably treading a pretty dangerous line. From googling, it looks like she's ok in CA, but she takes clients from any state and the point of sale is considered where the person that is buying the service is. You pay your local taxes on an online purchase, not where the business is located. So if that state has a different requirement, she (or her coach under her), could be in violation of the laws of that state.

Interestingly, the brokerage license wasn't in his name, it was in his partner something Rose. I can't remember his first name at the moment and I'm being too lazy to look it up. However, last October, when the first wave of the lawsuits broke, that partner removed himself as the partner on the brokerage license and someone else is now on it. The Rose guy is now selling again primarily and according to a recent article, the bulk of the major listings they are getting are based on him and Mauricio, without the two of them, they wouldn't have the numbers they do, regardless of the hundreds of agents. There is speculation that he had to go back to selling to boost the agencies numbers. Also there is talk that they have traded on the fact that your listing might be on tv due to either RHOBH or Million Dollar Listing as a reason to list with them, that they could get you on tv. It's kind of sketchy given that the Agency isn't actually the focus of either show and especially so since Kyle is all "our husbands don't ask to be on the show!"

Her kids are teens and it's not really like it is out of the realm of possibility that they would have phones and be on instagram. I hardly think that at 14 you would be a negligent parent for not standing over their shoulder watching everything they look at on instagram, in particular, your own feed. Also, I'm in my 40s. I do NOT want my parents to post shit like that on their social media. I'd be pretty upset about it, even though they are grown adults (obviously), and so am I. I do not need to see it, they don't need to see details like that of my life, and frankly, no one else in the world needs it either.

Yes. I THINK what Kyle was trying to say is that Mauricio didn't make the $32 or $36M on the house, that it was the profit over the purchase price. So she was trying to deflect and make it sound like he didn't have huge profits, when in reality, he did. The short version of the suit is that the house was put up for sale and went under contract to a Mauricio Oberfeld for $33.5M. Then, Mauricio U negotiated $1M in credits for repairs, so the ultimate purchase price was $32.5M. Mauricio U was also partnered with Mauricio O in purchasing the house, a fact that was not disclosed to anyone until the house was put back up for sale at $69.9M a year later. While the property was under contract to Mauricio O, another buyer had approached them and offered $8M to take over the deal. They countered the other buyer, but did not tell the sellers or the DOJ about this other offer, and Mauricio O remained the buyer at the lower price. There are also allegations that Mauricio U pushed the sellers to keep extending escrow without Mauricio O having to put down a required $1M deposit.

She really lost her shit there. It's totally ok to discuss the lawsuit LVP had in a previous season, but don't you dare bring up something that Kyle doesn't want to talk about. The fact that she couldn't even remotely begin to address it in a calm way, but instead demeaned someone (a viewer), and was snotty and basically all "How dare you question it!" was ridiculous. She could have gone the Dorit or Erika route and said that it's being resolved and can't be discussed because it's a pending matter and moved on. But nope, her reaction shows it's a big deal. Teddi doesn't have a problem throwing jabs at other people for whatever she feels that they are doing wrong. She decided that Erika was lying about something she said last season (and all Erika had said was yes, when Teddi had gone off on a long diatribe), and accused her of having pretend amnesia. Teddi was out for blood with Dorit for being late. I dislike people being late, but Teddi would NOT let it go. She also jumps into any conversation even if it has nothing to do with her. Two people can be talking and then Teddi jumps in with her opinions and then gets butt hurt when people tell her to stop and let them finish what they are saying. But heaven help you if you try to interrupt Teddi. I can't feel badly for her when she goes around trying to hold everyone to some weird ass standards she can't be bothered to try to hold herself to. Kyle can't ever leave things alone. She retweets things that are negative about other people. She will argue with people who say negative things about her. She tried to get a teacher fired because they called her Vyle Kyle on twitter. That's not true, though. When Dorit called LVP the day AFTER she had given LLAJ away, LVP told Dorit that they would need to do a home visit for the dog at it's new home. And she asked for the contact info for the woman. Dorit did not provide it on that call. Since Dorit is a friend and LVP took her word that the dog was in a good home, she assumed that it would be ok for the dog to stay where it was and do the visit in the next week, etc. LVP's team tried to follow up with Dorit a couple of times to get the information to do the visit and before they got the information, the dog ended up in the shelter. Dorit has yet to explain who had the dog, or provide a name.

I wasn't saying that Bambi wasn't family to Dabney as well. What I was saying is that, for me, I don't know anyone who has ever had an adult sibling come in from out of state to say goodbye to a pet, so I could see how it would strike Bethenny as strange. It isn't uncommon when it's a family pet that the kids (now adults), grew up with and they say goodbye before it is put down. As I mentioned, my family got a cat when I was a teenager, I was somewhere in my late 20s or early 30s when my parents had to put it down. But it does seem a bit strange to me (in that this is the first time I've ever heard of anyone doing it), for someone to get a pet in their 30s and then for their adult sibling to travel to say goodbye after it's death. I'm not making fun of Tinsley and everyone should do what helps them to feel the best they can in a difficult situation like this. I think some of us are just saying, oh, interesting, I didn't realize that some people did that.

I don't find Mauricio to be hot, he seems smarmy and sleazy to me. He's always struck me as a salesperson, from the first time he was introduced on the show. He's not a used car level sales person, but there's just a slick, salesperson edge to him that he never seems to drop and he always seems kind of surface-ish. I also think that there's 3 sides to the whole stolen goddamn house. I'm confident that Kyle and Mauricio have paid a ton of Kim's bills over the years, made sure her kids ate, had a home to live in, etc. I'm also sure that something got mixed up when it comes to the house. My guess would be that it was something somewhat lost in translation, like when Kyle's mother died, the 3 of them inherited the house. At some point, Kyle and Mauricio opted to buy Kathy out. Kim may have needed money and/or not wanted to pay for the upkeep on her portion of the house, and so they also purchased her portion. Likely she wasn't intending to never own the house again or ever be able to use it, so I could see a conversation where it was like don't worry, you can always buy it back when you have the money, etc. Then when Kyle and Mauricio wanted to sell the property to buy the house they own there now they pretty much said, well, we're selling the house. Kim would have had to either pay the current market rate for the house or they were going to sell it, because why would they take a loss on the property they've paid for and maintained all these years? In a case like this, I couldn't fault Kyle or Mauricio, because I certainly wouldn't sell the house back to a sibling of mine for the 1/3 share that I paid them back whenever it happened, especially given that the property had likely gone up in value. But at the same time, I can see how Kim would feel like she was screwed in the deal as she was selling her portion in exchange for help, kind of as collateral on a loan, and told she could always buy it back, but then later it was "buy the whole house or too bad, so sad" That's my speculation, anyway. About the lawsuit, it's very telling for me that Mauricio's insurance company refused to represent him and pay last year. They sided against him, feeling that he was guilty. That's NOT a good thing, as you pretty much pay for insurance specifically for these situations. I also think there is trouble in River City, given that they switched the name on the brokerage license last year, and they have apparently been losing a lot of their top agents. The Agency seems to be having issues overall: https://therealdeal.com/la/issues_articles/drama-at-the-agency/ For someone who supposedly struggled with an eating disorder and has a friend whose child has struggled, it seems like she'd have had a nicer response. They're funny? Why not just say that they aren't the best idea?

That's on the sound people and the editors, though. Each of the women are wearing a microphone and they can pick up the sound from each person and show it however they want. There are times they will show a scene with (for example), all the wives at dinner. They might show us an overview of the whole table talking, but we only hear the conversation that Dorinda and Bethenny are having at that particular moment. Then, later we'll see a side conversation that Sonja and Luann were having and they realized that Dorinda and Bethenny were discussing something and they began having a reaction to whatever it was that D & B were talking about. So we know the two conversations were happening at the same time, but they picked up the audio and made that prominent at whatever given moment. It's not Bethenny's fault that we heard her in that moment, she was likely actually very quiet and they played her audio in that scene. When Andy and Tinsley are having their conversation and that's what we're hearing, you don't hear Bethenny in the background, despite the fact that they are talking. Yes, it is. Most of the time when I have nervous laughter I am trying really hard to suppress it before it comes out. Sometimes I'm able to, but sometimes I'm just not. Then you're stuck trying to take deep breaths, redirect your attention to something, anything else. You're pinching yourself as hard as you can, to try to focus on it hurting to not laugh. I try to very consciously arrange my face so that it is neutral. But, if I can't stop it in time then all hell breaks loose. I'll be honest, in some ways I do think Tinsley was ridiculous with the dog. Not her grief because she lost the dog, of course. I get that. But I just honestly don't know anyone who has flown in from out of town to say goodbye to their adult sibling's dead pet. I get wanting to see a pet a final time if it was your family pet (like in the case of the cat my parents got when I was a teen, when they had to put it down, they checked with all of the kids to see if we wanted to visit before they put it down), but, if one of my siblings is going to put down a pet, I am sad for them, but not going to visit. And I also come from a family that is kind of strange about death at times, which I'm aware of. I can, because of that, come across as insensitive about death. I'm right there with Dorinda in being curious about the texture of the dog when it's defrosted. I would want to know, but I wouldn't have asked Tinsley. Now if it was my parent, I would ask, because it would be a normal question, no one would be offended. It's not coming from a place of mocking the person who is grieving, it's just curiousity and not taking death super seriously.

I didn't take it as Ashley's mom was friends with her father on FB. But if Ashley's father blocked her on FB she wouldn't be able to see his profile from her own account. Her mother likely wasn't blocked, so by using her mom's account she could search for her father and view whatever it is that he has unlocked that way. Now if he pays any attention to the show, I'm sure her mother and Michael will be blocked pretty quickly, so Ashley's chances to troll his profile are cut off. Maybe they are anticipating Duggar-like families? I have a sibling who is quite a bit younger than I am and I remember being brought to one of our mother's drs appointments waaaay back in the day to hear their heartbeat. (I don't think ultrasounds were as regular of a thing to "see" the baby back in those days) But we stayed out in the waiting room and then a nurse came and got us just for the last couple minutes of the appointment and it was just the siblings, not the entire neighborhood. I don't really think this shows Gizelle as neglectful. I have siblings and I also know from talking with other people over the years that family dynamics are weird. It's not that strange for one kid to feel like another kid is a favorite and it's also not that strange for parents to have a kid that they don't have to actively parent as much as another one, so they maybe get lost in the shuffle a bit. If you have a kid that does their homework, does well in school and tends to listen but then has a sibling that has problems with a subject in school, maybe doesn't always turn in their homework and/or has a behavior issue that has to be worked on, where does your focus tend to go? You spend most of the time correcting the kid that requires the active guidance and it's easy to overlook the fact that the kid who doesn't need you to hold their hand through their homework might feel like they aren't getting any attention at all. It's always going to be all about Candiace. Chris's family won't matter. Notice that nowhere in there were rooms for the kids he already has. Or "our kids" which is how you'd hope someone would phrase things when they've married someone with children. Candiace certainly has some grand dreams for someone who basically doesn't have a job (other than the show, which we all have to pretend isn't a job), and is living in a house her mommy pays a portion of at the moment. Oh, no, we're looking for a MANOR to move into . . .

I completely agree. I don't think many women who get implants when they are young totally grasp the fact that they do have to be replaced every 10-15 years. I'm basing this on people I know who got them, I'm positive there are people who pay attention to that info when they are told that, but many are just like, I want my boobs bigger, yeah, yeah, at some point down the road, fine. They just think it's later and they'll deal with it then. But then 10-15 years down the road you have a house, kids, other expenses and maybe it's not quite so easy to pull together the money for the surgery so you try to put it off, etc. Or there are braces to pay for, a furnace that needs to be replaced and personally, if it were me, I'd be like, hmm, new boobs for me or heat for my family? Ok, boobs can wait. I want to get a lift, but won't get implants, because for me it will be a one and done thing. I know they'll sag again at some point, but I figure at that point I won't care. And I don't want to be like 70 and considering whether or not I want to deal with potential surgery side effects for my boobs. A knee replacement? Sure. Boob job? Nah. I will also say this, I think most people want to look good. Everyone has a different definition of what good is for themselves. For some of us, it is manicures, lashes, make up, etc. For my mother, getting ready for a big thing meant mascara and lipstick. Other women might pay a bit more attention to what they wear, but not do makeup or ever consider their nails. I don't think that's wrong or makes any of them vain. It's just normal. I certainly give more thought to how I will look if I am going to be at something I know will have photos or video than if I'm running to the store or just going about my daily life and I try to keep that in mind when looking at any of the hos. I wouldn't judge Bethenny or Tinsley for having a full face of makeup and extensions or whatever for a day of filming any more than I do the teller at the bank for having make up on for her day at work. That's their job, they are at work, presenting themselves for their job.

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She flat out said it on the show though. She said to Dorinda (and I'm paraphrasing because I am too lazy to go back and rewatch), "I can't, I'm going to laugh inappropriately, don't say anything to me." Then when Ramona kept trying to ask Tinsley questions and Tinsley kept answering Andy and Andy wasn't stopping the conversation to address Ramona's questions, Ramona kind of directed them to Bethenny who said "Stop. Stop. I will start laughing stop talking now" She isn't trying to sell something she didn't say in the moment.