Jules2307

I joked with my husband that if we ever run into them at the mall, I'm going to press my business card into Nikki's hand and tell her to call me when she's ready to run.

I have to be honest, "post-communist charm" makes even less sense to me. Communist charm at least brings up memories of Soviet style art propoganda. Post Communist charm reminds me of bread lines and expensive denim.

The only thing I took away from this episode was how bad I feel for the Hadid kids. They seem like relatively normal kids (although Bella seems a little neurotic in interviews, in ways that are awfully similar to her mother) and I'm shocked that Yo produced them. Between the almond and vitamin supplement breakfasts and the exploiting their concern for her for ratings, Yolanda seems like a terrible parent. Gigi looked so shocked and Bella looked devastated when Yo started going on about her will. It was inappropriate, full stop. And I find it incredibly difficult to believe that Mohammed would not have mentioned to Lisa that two of his kids were suffering with Lyme Disease. It would come up in every day conversation between friends. Am I a fan of seeing Lisa Rinna's lady business waxed? No but I enjoyed that a hell of a lot more than watching Yolanda make her kids and cancer stricken mother cry on national TV. ETA: I thought it was interesting that everyone made it seem like LVP had no acting experience. Wasn't she some sort of once-in-a-while C list actress before she became a restauranteur? I know for a fact that she was in one of my all time favorite movies, A Touch of Class but she only had 1 or 2 lines.

As someone who lives in Baltimore, it kills me every time they list him as being from Baltimore. No, he clearly lives in one of 'burbs. If you wanted to catch a sight of them, you should have paid a visit to the White Marsh Mall. Someone posted a photo of them in the Boscovs (a local department store, not fancy at all, more like a Pennys than a Macys) that's in the White Marsh Mall.

Couples where one of them clearly has to be the STAR weird me out. I'm sort of fascinated by what attracted Simon to Richard. Also, I wanted to vomit when Simon said he wanted "Communist charm." Whaaat?

I think even Kyle seemed like she didn't think she had fibromyalgia. I've found that a lot of doctors, especially busy doctors, throw out fibromyalgia when they can't be bothered to actually diagnose women. Don't get me wrong, fibromyalgia exists and people have it but a lot of times, people like Kyle are misdiagnosed, especially when you have a multifaceted illness like depression.

I think she was sick (most likely due to both regular old Lyme disease and the leaky implant) and enjoyed the attention. The fact that she flits between countries and doctors and doesn't seem to be taking any prescriptions, just a ton of vitamins and supplements, screams to me that she wants pity. Cooksdelight was totally right about Yo trying to find a new man. Her "Look how great I look and how much I've overcame" really kicked off last night at the Bravo premiere: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3345681/Yolanda-Foster-looks-great-spirits-shows-curves-sheer-white-dress-Real-Housewives-premiere-party-just-days-confirming-split-husband-David.html She doesn't look like she did a few years ago but I realized that her face is puffier than it was. It took me a minute to figure out why but she's constantly getting IVs. Her fluid retention must be off the charts.

thanks for the background- really helps give perspective. Maybe she's trying to shrug off the spoiled image in this show,. She seems to want to be seen as an unpretentious down-to-earth single mother who throws herself into housekeeping and child-minding. All of that could be for the show, of course, And there's little sign of the 400 million or so she got in the divorce settlement. I read of another reason for the divorce: he was pushing for their son to be sent to boarding school, whereas she wanted him to live with them,. The Caroline known to the Danish press seems so different from the one we're seeing on the show. You inspired me to start looking, and I see how the footballer earned his reputation. But I'm also seeing how little there actually is either on Caroline or on her family- in English, anyway. A teeny tiny fraction of what any celebrity or tv personality would attract here in the U.S. So I'm still confused by many things in her past. To begin with, there's the question of her title. I thought Caroline Fleming lost her title because she married Rory Fleming. That suggests the family didn't approve of him. But in episode 7 I thought I heard her say that their family rift began when she *divorced* Rory. So that seems odd. Are they mad at her for being with him or for not being with him? . i also didn't know a family could just take away someone's title...esp if she was born with one, as the baron's daughter. Both Carolines referred to her being titled without mentioning this little glitch, so I wonder if the info of her having been de-titled is just plan wrong. Or if the Carolines are hoping to no one will find out about the un-titling - which would be uncharacteristically naive, esp for Caroline Stanbury. . . I believe, and I could be wrong about this, she lost her title when she got married because that's just what happens. Take Princess Diana (or really, Diana, Princess of Wales). She was born Lady Diana Spencer because she was the daughter of an earl. When she married Prince Charles she became the Princess of Wales (aristo equivalent of taking your husband's name). Diana had 2 sisters, both of whom married "commoners" so her sisters went from being Lady Jane and Lady Sarah to Mrs. Jane Fellows and Mrs. Sarah McCorquodale. I don't know for sure that Caroline F wasn't stripped of her title but it seems more than likely that Danish rules are the same as British rules.

I'm sure there are many reasons but from my Hello! magazine reading days, Rory Fleming is loaded. And he (and his family firm) were funding the renovations of her family castle. She came up with the idea of renovating the castle on a reality where she came off as spoiled and entitled and he came off as long suffering. Shortly thereafter, Caroline announced she was bored and that was the end of the marriage. She followed up her marriage by having a child with Nicklas Bendtner, a footballer who is also a disaster of a human being. If she were my sister, I'd also be asking people's opinions of her boyfriend if I hadn't met him yet. I went on a bachelorette party weekend with some friends. The bride and I had a lot of champagne and we ended up finishing it off in the Jacuzzi in her suite. Never though did I ever lift my legs over each other. That is what turns it from drunken fun to a romantic trip to the Jacuzzi

I know Caroline F. because she had a child with Nicklas Bendtner, the disaster who played for Arsenal. Royalty or no, I would have thought having a "love child" with a footballer would be too déclassé for snobs like Caroline S. and Annabel...

"If I remember correctly, he didn't drink and spent a lot of his time on his knees, praying. He did have a bad start, marrying Elizabeth Taylor while she was still a teenager, almost, and then he went through Zsa Zsa in a hurry, but otherwise, he made it through OK." Yeah, Conrad Junior was no saint. If I'm recalling correctly, Elizabeth Taylor talked about how he beat the stuffing out of her on their wedding night because she interrupted his card game. Also according to her, he beat her while she was pregnant and caused a miscarriage. Zsa Zsa also openly talked about being beaten by him. He was a perpetual abuser and alcoholic. The marriage of little Kathy and Rick just seems like a unification of two seriously effed up families, just from different social strata.