Yolanda Hadid: My Love, My Lemons, My Lyme Disease.

[Satchels of gold]

Well she was bedridden once before after she gave birth to Anwar.

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Poor thing

ETA she says she was bed bound for a year.

Edited February 21, 2016 by nc socialworker

[Almost 3000]

My mom was bedridden at the end of her life and as her primary caregiver I did have to change her position frequently, as well as take care of other needs. Before she even got that bad, she was unable to do the regular every day things like fix her hair, etc., but she never once complained. She was in excruciating pain and required morphine every 15 minutes at the end. Watching FroYo play victim leaves a sour taste in my mouth, and makes me extremely angry that she is minimizing the pain and suffering ANYONE who has suffered from a deadly, debilitating disease actually experienced. Look at people such as David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Angelina Jolie, and more who have had major health issues and look at how often they called attention to themselves as they suffered. They didn't! Yo is a big, lying, actress, and a bad one at that.

Yo is really pissing me off today.

Just saw my neighbor who I haven't seen in awhile because she's hired someone to walk her dog so she's not out very much. I told her she looked great. She was wearing a white turtle neck and her shoulders were wrapped in a black fringed shawl, her jeans were slim fit tucked into black Ugg slippers. Cute. A few years ago she had cancer and the toxic drugs that cured her also gave her heart problems. She's on the list for a heart replacement. She was telling me about still trying to work and look nice but has several times had people rudely question her for parking in handicap spots. Most days she can't walk her dog let alone have the endurance to cross a parking lot but she still works and always looks nice when out and about. It can be done unless you're Yo and using her unseen illness as a story line. Yep, I'm pissed...

[raiderred1]

In the last year I have had some very serious health issues and had to have a total hysterectomy with ovaries removed in June and it has been the hardest journey in my life.  At first, I empathized with Yo because being sick for a long time is hard and VERY scary but now I am like all the others in thinking she may not be as ill.  I was forced into surgical menopause and it totally sucks but each day I think my body is starting to get used to balancing itself so now I am just annoyed more than scared at my future.  I honestly think part of Yo's issue is going through menopause, it just plain sucks!  

[racked]

Before this season I still felt bad for Yolanda. Any sympathy or even pity is gone now. She's not just frustrating trash, she's un-fun trash which is the worst kind! Not even fun to watch.

Is she still claiming she doesn't wear makeup? She had a pimple on her chin at the bbq which was very carefully and thoroughly covered up. She's so transparent.

[tenativelyyours]

I'm surprised they did not get better photos for the newest Not-Gigi's book.  He looks soft and his face looks puffy.  On Gigi it manages to be a look (though I was surprised at some backstage photos from these past NYC shows and I think she looks too soft as well.  Especially when she is standing next to some beauty with cheeks I could use to spread cold butter on fresh bread.  She is pretty-cute. 

 

And what is going on with the hair?  Is someone just maybe a little peeved at being lumped in with a sister that now models after mommy got her looks in check?  Maybe it was just a demand thing.  But Gigi' in darker hair does Bella no favors.  It just shows, when comparing the two, how natural Gigi still looks compared to her pray mantis sister.

 

I wonder if Gigi was with that group of drunk underage kids with Beiber, Will Smith's kids and the Jenner daughters in London that got turned away a few years back?  It sort of fell under the whole Justin Beiber's bad behavior bit,  And other than the initial report of who was part of the crowd it did not get as explored as I felt it should have in light of the ages of the kids trying to get in a London club which has younger drinking ages than the US.   But if I read correctly Beiber and his same age buddies (Lil' Something) were the only legal adults in the crowd.  And the Smith kids and the younger Jenner kid weren't even sixteen at the time.  I just cannot fathom, no matter how much money or fame letting my underage kid go to Europe and party with an immature and acting out music performer without any parental oversight on hand.  I do know that right before she started dating the blond whose mother never made the show, she was often with Kendall Jenner right when she was getting into modeling.

 

And I saw her smoking like a chimney at Chris Jammer's party awhile back and didn't realize it was her until someone sent me the online pic.  Not an ecig but a light it up cancer stick.  Wonder where that fits in with her mother's pompous know-it-all deep wisdom on all that is good for you and what isn't? 

[zoeysmom]

Who was smoking?  I am a little slow today.  Bella, Gigi or Kendall?

[Vicky8675309]

I've seen photos of Bella smoking cigarettes.

[tenativelyyours]

Sorry.  The one not playing back up as a Lymette. The Lemonette if you will to Bella and Anwar's Lymettes.  The Not-not-Gigi.  The Gigg herself.  Yolanda's full length extension.  The one out the door the minute that One Direction quitter doesn't make it as solo artist or someone bigger comes along.  The one not getting a weekly Daisy Doodle up her boodle.

[Vicky8675309]

Sorry.  The one not playing back up as a Lymette. The Lemonette if you will to Bella and Anwar's Lymettes.  The Not-not-Gigi.  The Gigg herself.  Yolanda's full length extension.  The one out the door the minute that One Direction quitter doesn't make it as solo artist or someone bigger comes along.  The one not getting a weekly Daisy Doodle up her boodle.

 

LOL! so both Gigi (lemonette) and Bella (lymette) smoke cigarettes---I wonder if they make lemon flavored tobacco (yuck). Maybe Bella is trying to smoke out the lyme

[kokapetl]

What did Gigi look like in the flesh?

[Avaleigh]

I've seen pics of Bella smoking. Didn't know that the golden one did too but it isn't surprising. It's easier to eat half an almond a day if you smoke to help kill your appetite. 

 

I hope they stay away from the snow. 

[tenativelyyours]

From the front Gigi is very cute pretty.  She has a nice smile and she does seem rather genuine in the way she reacts.  She has an odd jawline to me in profile though.  It gives her this offset look like she has jowls.  But doesn't.  She was quite freckled when I saw her so I suspect she had been out in the sun quite a bit since it was early fall when I saw her.

 

She also was quite sweaty but the place was packed when I got there.  But it added to the soft and blurry image (i was sober so if wasn't me) Also I was more disappointed to see Chris smoking.  Not so disappointed in how he filled a shirt.  But a bit of a pompous ass for someone who stands over 6'6" and so never going to be the high fashion model he likes to pretend to be.  I guess studying at Cambridge and getting paid to take your shirt off can be a bit of an ego boost.

[Avaleigh]

Tentaively yours, I think Bella is attractive but your praying mantis comment made me laugh out loud. 

[Vicky8675309]

I've seen pics of Bella smoking. Didn't know that the golden one did too but it isn't surprising. It's easier to eat half an almond a day if you smoke to help kill your appetite. 

 

I hope they stay away from the snow. 

 

well there was one gossip rag a while back that had photos of what looked like Gigi and snow

[zoeysmom]

I've seen pics of Bella smoking. Didn't know that the golden one did too but it isn't surprising. It's easier to eat half an almond a day if you smoke to help kill your appetite. 

 

I hope they stay away from the snow. 

The non-Gigi spends an inordinate amount of time taking pictures of food leading one to believe she actually eats it.  I doubt it.

[izabella]

Gigi was running with that "in group" pack that included Kendall Jenner and Bieber so I think that got her noticed as much if not more than Yolanda's participation as a RH did.

 

Vanity Fair had a feature on Taylor Swift last year...Gigi is part of her "GirlSquad" of BFF's.

[kokapetl]

To get there-there needs to be a sexual crime. Johanna Hassan's, third husband, Daniel Fister, a famous Muzak conductor, is accused of having sexual relationship with the non-gogo. Would that make her a no-go?

Or maybe, "Dude, do you have a return policy?"

In an ALL NEW SVU!, model Anna Hassan is found dead in a hotel room, with evidence of sexual assault. Was it step dad, autistic Muzak conductor Daniel Fister, her momager, former model, reality tv star and zealous chronic Oranje disease advocate Johanna Hassan, or her boyfriend Muzak artist Workdy? Detectives Mariska and Lady blonde detective search for the truth on an ALL NEW SVU!.

Anna will have actually killed herself in an attempt to frame Fister, Johanna Hassan and Workdy.

Edited February 21, 2016 by Kokapetl

[FanOfTheFans]

Yo is getting ripped on twitter for Big Ang's death. She issued condolences about her death but then had to add the #invisibleillness. So basically she has made her death about herself which is par for the course with this woman. How does she not see how insensitive she comes across?

[kokapetl]

Are the Genoveses being ripped for all the cigarettes she smoked that "fell of the back of a truck"? The woman was a baritone.

Edited February 21, 2016 by Kokapetl

[Vicky8675309]

Yo is getting ripped on twitter for Big Ang's death. She issued condolences about her death but then had to add the #invisibleillness. So basically she has made her death about herself which is par for the course with this woman. How does she not see how insensitive she comes across?

 

Didn't Big Ang die from cancer? Cancer is not an invisible illness. Big Ang didn't whine like Yo or play the sick role. Big Ang is not her father, husband, son or any relative and is not responsible for their crimes. If she committed crimes that I assume she served her time or whatever punishment our justice system determined proper. I don't know that much about her but I have seen some of the show...she seemed nice and wasn't a lying, manipulative drama queen faking illnesses or using symptoms of illness for attention (unlike Yolanda). I haven't seen any of the recent episodes/season but I heard she didn't play the sick role

Edited February 21, 2016 by Vicky8675309

[FanOfTheFans]

Are the Genoveses being ripped for all the cigarettes she smoked that "fell of the back of a truck"? The woman was a baritone.

I don't watch Mob Wives. I was referring to the invisible illness hashtag which is really all about Yo. People are calling her out on cancer being a very visible illness.

[becauseIsaidso]

Geez, yolanda is SUCH a BITCH...saw a rerun of the WWHL where satan andy repeatedly kissed her ass - if he was trying to expose her with great subtlety, he failed miserably, he asked her if she felt she owed LisaV an apology for her over the top reaction to LisaV's comment about what she/LisaV thought Mohammed was saying about his kids exposure to/experience with Lyme...and...naturally yoyoblah said, which great emphasis, NOT AT ALL.....so much for taking the high road....IMNSHO, her behavior on WWHL was a clear indication of how she considers herself to be totally superior to all the other howives....she seriously needs a lesson in reality - the non-tv kind.

[SparkleznConfetti]

Geez, yolanda is SUCH a BITCH...saw a rerun of the WWHL where satan andy repeatedly kissed her ass - if he was trying to expose her with great subtlety, he failed miserably, he asked her if she felt she owed LisaV an apology for her over the top reaction to LisaV's comment about what she/LisaV thought Mohammed was saying about his kids exposure to/experience with Lyme...and...naturally yoyoblah said, which great emphasis, NOT AT ALL.....so much for taking the high road....IMNSHO, her behavior on WWHL was a clear indication of how she considers herself to be totally superior to all the other howives....she seriously needs a lesson in reality - the non-tv kind.

[zoeysmom]

Here is the official (?) list of invisible diseases:  http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/invisible/

 

I think this is a rather broad term.  Yolanda of course is getting an award from the Invisible Disease Association.  Yolanda condition is anything but invisible. 

[SparkleznConfetti]

I really liked Yolo on her first season on the show cuz of her facade of class + lifestyle porn. But she lost me when she admonished those hispanic movers for speaking in their native tongue as well as the time she haggled with the artist when purchasing the painting :-\

ETA: I hope that yoli gets to eat some of the same humble "pie" from "The Help". (sighs) Oh yoli, yoli, yoli dontchya know karma has no deadline and needs no GPS? Smh

Edited February 22, 2016 by SparkleznConfetti

[kokapetl]

All of Yolanda's proof and evidence, that's totally invisible.

[zoeysmom]

Maybe its me but this suit looks like the seamstress put it together wrong.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BB8lsO-B6r1/  Who would buy such a stupid suit?

[Vicky8675309]

Here is the official (?) list of invisible diseases:  http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/invisible/

 

I think this is a rather broad term.  Yolanda of course is getting an award from the Invisible Disease Association.  Yolanda condition is anything but invisible. 

 

Invisible diseases is not medical jargon. It is not a medical phrase used in the medical community. 

Edited February 22, 2016 by Vicky8675309

[Vicky8675309]

Seriously, if a patient told me they had an "invisible disease" the first thought I would think is "I bet they are going to say demonic possession or alien implantation" and then I would have had a good internal laugh and afterwards laughed with colleagues about it (I know, not professional but you gotta get your laughs where you can...cop and doctor humor is usually much more twisted than that)

[ElDosEquis]

I really liked Yolo on her first season on the show cuz of her facade of class + lifestyle porn. But she lost me when she admonished those hispanic movers for speaking in their native tongue as well as the time she haggled with the artist when purchasing the painting :-\

ETA: I hope that yoli gets to eat some of the same humble "pie" from "The Help". (sighs) Oh yoli, yoli, yoli dontchya know karma has no deadline and needs no GPS? Smh

 

You know, I never had any thought one way or the other about MoFoYo-Didy until she started in with the mover...That irritated the eff out of me.

[zoeysmom]

Seriously, if a patient told me they had an "invisible disease" the first thought I would think is "I bet they are going to say demonic possession or alien implantation" and then I would have had a good internal laugh and afterwards laughed with colleagues about it (I know, not professional but you gotta get your laughs where you can...cop and doctor humor is usually much more twisted than that)

For some reason whenever I read Yolanda and her stupid #invisible disease all I can think of is Ronnie K. talking about Ken's silent fahrts.

 

I think my favorite was the person wearing contact lenses hiding their invisible disability.

 

On Wikipedia there is a very stupid reference about an invisible disease sufferer, who had the foresight to tell the flight attendant, they used the bathroom 20 minutes before landing.  When it was announced no one was able to leave their seat 30 minutes from landing, the flight attendant saved the invisible disease sufferer from having a blanket throwing over him/her and being tackled to the ground by an air marshal.  Oh the effing drama. 

[SparkleznConfetti]

You know, I never had any thought one way or the other about MoFoYo-Didy until she started in with the mover...That irritated the eff out of me.

Especially considering that english is neither Muhammad's/¥olanda's native tongue. Im sure yoli would have no problem endorsing Trump and the Birthers.Ymmv.

Edited February 22, 2016 by SparkleznConfetti

[racked]

Yo is getting ripped on twitter for Big Ang's death. She issued condolences about her death but then had to add the #invisibleillness. So basically she has made her death about herself which is par for the course with this woman. How does she not see how insensitive she comes across?

She's such a self centered bitch. I'm done even following her bullshit Illness after this. This wench is dying for attention and we are just giving it to her. Let her go the way of Brooks - disliked but also forgotten.

[ElDosEquis]

Seriously, if a patient told me they had an "invisible disease" the first thought I would think is "I bet they are going to say demonic possession or alien implantation" and then I would have had a good internal laugh and afterwards laughed with colleagues about it (I know, not professional but you gotta get your laughs where you can...cop and doctor humor is usually much more twisted than that)

I think its the absurdity of having an 'invisible' disease? Maybe an 'unseen' disease or let's just go back to being 'ill'?

 

I get tired of the whole PC, let's name this something else crusades that people go on.

 

Is lyme invisible, it sure is, but is it more or less invisible than, let's say pancreatic cancer? Breast cancer? When drunks, hypes and crack heads became 'substance abusers' we began to take the sting out of calling people drunks, hypes and crack heads....Is a person in a wheel chair VISIBLY ill?

 

When you work in healthcare for a living (or did), you stop looking at people as visible people with invisible illness here in one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice, for all.` You look at them as people, because, that is what they are.

 

People that need your help and shouldn't be treated any differently than the next guy.

[Wings]

I really liked Yolo on her first season on the show cuz of her facade of class + lifestyle porn. But she lost me when she admonished those hispanic movers for speaking in their native tongue as well as the time she haggled with the artist when purchasing the painting :-\

ETA: I hope that yoli gets to eat some of the same humble "pie" from "The Help". (sighs) Oh yoli, yoli, yoli dontchya know karma has no deadline and needs no GPS? Smh

 

 

Can you refresh my memory as to what she said to the movers and artist, I don't remember.  

[zoeysmom]

I think its the absurdity of having an 'invisible' disease? Maybe an 'unseen' disease or let's just go back to being 'ill'?

 

I get tired of the whole PC, let's name this something else crusades that people go on.

 

Is lyme invisible, it sure is, but is it more or less invisible than, let's say pancreatic cancer? Breast cancer? When drunks, hypes and crack heads became 'substance abusers' we began to take the sting out of calling people drunks, hypes and crack heads....Is a person in a wheel chair VISIBLY ill?

 

When you work in healthcare for a living (or did), you stop looking at people as visible people with invisible illness here in one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice, for all.` You look at them as people, because, that is what they are.

 

People that need your help and shouldn't be treated any differently than the next guy.

The one thing I do not understand about Yolanda, she has shared, advocated, shined a light on Lyme's Disease.  There is really nothing her co-stars, or me or you can do for her.   She has a home healthcare aide to help her.  She has a husband and an able body 16 year old at home.  What does she want these women to do?  Oh send their private plane to ferry her about.  The idea these others lives should come to a standstill to tend to Yolanda is beyond absurd.   If you have a family member besieged by illness one would most likely read up and keep up with their treatments.  That is a very small circle. Yolanda expects these women to take an oath to follow her path and never ask a question.  All conversations are about Yolanda when she is in the picture and a fair amount of time when she is not around because she keeps the acrimony at a low boil. Yolanda wants to control all their conversations and at the same time she wants to be the focal point of their conversations.  It is beyond annoying.  So these splinter groups thinking up new key words or phrases to describe life and garner sympathy have found their Queen in Yolanda. 

[Vicky8675309]

I think its the absurdity of having an 'invisible' disease? Maybe an 'unseen' disease or let's just go back to being 'ill'?

 

I get tired of the whole PC, let's name this something else crusades that people go on.

 

Is lyme invisible, it sure is, but is it more or less invisible than, let's say pancreatic cancer? Breast cancer? When drunks, hypes and crack heads became 'substance abusers' we began to take the sting out of calling people drunks, hypes and crack heads....Is a person in a wheel chair VISIBLY ill?

 

When you work in healthcare for a living (or did), you stop looking at people as visible people with invisible illness here in one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice, for all.` You look at them as people, because, that is what they are.

 

People that need your help and shouldn't be treated any differently than the next guy.

 

true!

 

Lyme disease often presents with a VISIBLE rash so that whole made up nomenclature of visible invisible is just confusing and not helpful imo. 

 

I always had/have to remind myself that "crazy"**  doesn't protect against "real" (un-pc way of saying non-psychiatric) disease and to give everyone the benefit of the doubt but extra caution if a patient circles everything on the "review of systems", has had numerous exploratory laps that didn't find anything, numerous drug allergies listing tons of medicines including steroids which are the same as the ones made in one's own body (have to clarify that the patient is talking about a true allergy and not just a side effect), etc...all those red flags...and to do this all in the 10-30 minutes you have for a follow up visit.....impossible....so then the appointment runs late....

 

**"crazy"...sorry, I know it is not PC and a horrible way to describe mentally ill or just annoying non-mentally ill people but it is so much shorter. I usually say squirelly but I'm not sure how to spell it (also not PC). No offense was intended and sorry if it causes offense to anyone.

[ElDosEquis]

The one thing I do not understand about Yolanda, she has shared, advocated, shined a light on Lyme's Disease.  There is really nothing her co-stars, or me or you can do for her.   She has a home healthcare aide to help her.  She has a husband and an able body 16 year old at home.  What does she want these women to do?  Oh send their private plane to ferry her about.  The idea these others lives should come to a standstill to tend to Yolanda is beyond absurd.   If you have a family member besieged by illness one would most likely read up and keep up with their treatments.  That is a very small circle. Yolanda expects these women to take an oath to follow her path and never ask a question.  All conversations are about Yolanda when she is in the picture and a fair amount of time when she is not around because she keeps the acrimony at a low boil. Yolanda wants to control all their conversations and at the same time she wants to be the focal point of their conversations.  It is beyond annoying.  So these splinter groups thinking up new key words or phrases to describe life and garner sympathy have found their Queen in Yolanda. 

So, we can call the newest followers of her beef broth regime, Boner Eaters?

[Sun-Bun]

I have an acquaintance who could be Yolanda's soul-sister---she's Dutch, a beautiful blonde/former model in her late 50's, and she's suffered for years from Fibromyalgia. But she also supposedly suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Like Yolanda, she loves to go social media crazy about her diseases, constantly posting self-righteous memes and posting "sick selfies", lectures others on how they should talk to/treat sick folks, and whines incessantly about how awful she feels and how much she wishes she could go do but she can't((yet like Yo for a Gigi fashion show, she'll magically turn up to certain events with certain folks when necessary)).

Anyways, it just dawned on me this week after she sent me a message saying how disappointed she was that I hadn't been able to drive 30 minutes to visit HER or text or anything((never mind the fact that the phone works both ways and I tell her to call me anytime because I have a busy worklife))---this must be how tiring it is to be a friend of Yolanda's.

Never any interest in your world or what you'd like to do or supporting you, since it's HER world and you're either completely there for her and understanding of all her demanding ways and talk to her in the proper manner or you're not a true friend.

It's exhausting dealing with people like these, high-maintenance people who seem to define themselves by their sicknesses. The self-centeredness just as a way of turning itself into immediate self-righteousness.

And I'm not trying to sound insensitive because I know such diseases are no joke and do require compassion from all angles, but my goodness...the hoops one must jump through to please such women as these, it's just not easy.

David Foster might be a dick, but all I can say is that I can understand why he finally split.

Edited February 22, 2016 by Sun-Bun

[breezy424]

Let's face it, there's reality and then there's Yo's reality. 

 

Yo needs to be taken by the hand and shown the life of a real person in the real world.  In Yo's world, she 'is' bed ridden and suffering from a chronic illness and thinks she is suffering as much as anyone who has the worst diseases in the world.  She's not even close.  She is probably one of the most selfish, self absorbed, ungrateful persons I've ever come across. 

[zoeysmom]

true!

 

Lyme disease often presents with a VISIBLE rash so that whole made up nomenclature of visible invisible is just confusing and not helpful imo. 

 

I always had/have to remind myself that "crazy"**  doesn't protect against "real" (un-pc way of saying non-psychiatric) disease and to give everyone the benefit of the doubt but extra caution if a patient circles everything on the "review of systems", has had numerous exploratory laps that didn't find anything, numerous drug allergies listing tons of medicines including steroids which are the same as the ones made in one's own body (have to clarify that the patient is talking about a true allergy and not just a side effect), etc...all those red flags...and to do this all in the 10-30 minutes you have for a follow up visit.....impossible....so then the appointment runs late....

 

**"crazy"...sorry, I know it is not PC and a horrible way to describe mentally ill or just annoying non-mentally ill people but it is so much shorter. I usually say squirelly but I'm not sure how to spell it (also not PC). No offense was intended and sorry if it causes offense to anyone.

I guess what I gleaned from the invisible disease people is if you aren't sporting a visible hearing aid, wearing glasses but are wearing contacts, using a cane, wheel chair or walker, writhing in pain, or wearing a tinfoil hat and have hearing loss, vision issues, mobility issues,  pain, or have a mental illness you have an invisible disability or disease. 

 

It seems odd that we strive to respect people's medical privacy and now we have this group of squirrels guilt tripping people because they aren't tuned into these various conditions.

 

I don't know what Yolanda wants people to say to her. "So beautiful yet you suffer so. Incurable Lyme Disease the injustice of it all"  "Beautiful photo of Bella, how does she stay up long enough to be made up and pose and it is so sad she has the Lyme Disease.  What a trooper. "  "WTF are you doing letting Anwar drive with his Lyme Disease?  Did you not learn from Bella's driving calamities?  (Guess the one about Anwar would not go over too big.) 

[DebbieM4]

Didn't Big Ang die from cancer? Cancer is not an invisible illness. Big Ang didn't whine like Yo or play the sick role. Big Ang is not her father, husband, son or any relative and is not responsible for their crimes. If she committed crimes that I assume she served her time or whatever punishment our justice system determined proper. I don't know that much about her but I have seen some of the show...she seemed nice and wasn't a lying, manipulative drama queen faking illnesses or using symptoms of illness for attention (unlike Yolanda). I haven't seen any of the recent episodes/season but I heard she didn't play the sick role

 

That was my first thought too.  How is cancer an invisible illness? (And where did that term even come from?)

 

This is just another example of Yolanda latching onto something to promote her own agenda of keeping herself in the spotlight.  It's always annoying and obvious, but really very disrespectful and inappropriate at the time of someone's death.  She really doesn't have the slightest bit of compassion for anyone else.  She can't even  tweet a simple RIP, perhaps with a nice comment about the person.  It always has to come back around to her.  That's how she sees the world - The impact that everything and everyone has on HER is what's most important.   I don't like the word "famewhore", but really she is a famewhore of the worst kind. 

 

Several celebrities have passed away recently, and most of us had no idea they were even ill.  Yolanda, on the other hand whines and complains on a never-ending basis, documents her "journey" with posed photos, and talks about fighting for her life (which is ridiculous).  It's all just way too calculated for me, and I save my empathy and sympathy for those who are fighting a fight and doing the best they can without constantly looking around for a camera crew and for those who are sincerely trying to raise awareness for their cause and do some good for others.

 

Yolanda has done nothing to be helpful to anyone who has LD (or an "invisible illness"), and I really wish she would stop acting as though she's some kind of tireless advocate.  If I had LD, I would be alarmed and despondent because all we know of it from her is that it's the most awful thing ever.  She is doing such a disservice to people who are really ill.  

Edited February 23, 2016 by DebbieM4

[ElDosEquis]

 

I always had/have to remind myself that "crazy"**  doesn't protect against "real" (un-pc way of saying non-psychiatric) disease and to give everyone the benefit of the doubt but extra caution if a patient circles everything on the "review of systems", has had numerous exploratory laps that didn't find anything, numerous drug allergies listing tons of medicines including steroids which are the same as the ones made in one's own body (have to clarify that the patient is talking about a true allergy and not just a side effect), etc...all those red flags...

.

A few years ago I was in the hospital for 11 days and I had two 'roommates' that were the epitome of FN pillheads/liars/abusers.

 

One kid called his friends to go out and pick up some drugs - he had someone pick him up so he could score (My wife and I ratted him out) and the other was an old fucker that, like the young one, could recite ALL THEIR  MEDS, along with the dosage and how many pills he had to take each day. When the nurse came in to give me a pain pill, I'd say I didn't need one, which the young one would chime in to say, "IF you don't want it, can I have it?" The old guy refused to be discharged without getting valium then complained that the pills he got weren't the same color as the pills he usually ate.....

[ElDosEquis]

 

Yolanda has done nothing to be helpful to anyone who has LD (or an "invisible illness"), and I really wish she would stop acting as though she's some kind of tireless advocate.  If I had LD, I would be alarmed and despondent because all we know of it from her is that it's the most awful thing ever.  She is doing such a disservice to people who are really ill.  

And I said this before....No one from the Lyme Disease Foundation for the Cure of Lyme Diseased and Afflicted Invisible Diseases is going to doubt her because of the money she brings in from the people who are willing to donate  - Her willingness to join ANOTHER group of people - the Invisible Illness Coalition (LOL)just shows how desperate she is to be in the spotlight.

 

Unlike the Lyme Galas, do the invisible illness people check in at the front desk and get a nametag that has your name and illness on it - you know, to keep people from guessing and embarrassing you? MY NAME IS DICK/IMPOTENCE.

 

If you don't show up does that mean your invisibility got the best of you?

[LIMOM]

her mother is battling breast cancer and yet is Yoyo trying to help cancer survivors or people who are right now battling this horrible and lethal disease?

Nope, if it is not about Yoyo. It does not matter.

[motorcitymom65]

I would like to see Yo discredited for her inconsistencies.  She is not faking anything; she is dramatizing EVERYTHING.  What the everything is, she doesn't know for sure, nor do her doctors.  The quacks do though and are charging her a pretty penny for "treatments."

 

Come on LVP, stay with what annoys you.  You started the conversation, now it is time to finish it.  Munchie munchie housen dousen is brought up again next week.  

 

This is all I want.  I do not ask for much.  

I think the problem for the ladies is that about the same time they were filming this, we had the whole "does he have cancer" thing going on over on the OC show. It would have been impossible for them to not have known what was going on over on that show. Brooks - who must be one of the most disliked people ever to be on a Bravo show - was actually getting quite a lot of sympathy at one point, because people were questioning him. How dare they? And these weren't people who didn't like him or were out to get him. Gals like Heather and Shannon who had always had a very good relationship with him were expressing doubts and they were getting hammered away at week after week until near the end of the season. I am sure at some point the ladies on this show wondered what kind of hell they would find themselves in if they questioned Yo too much, considering she is not hated to the extent that Brooks was (at least not at the time). I think it is just tricky for all of them. 

[ElDosEquis]

I think the problem for the ladies is that about the same time they were filming this, we had the whole "does he have cancer" thing going on over on the OC show.

LOL, No one wants to be the person who points at someone and yells "FRAUD!" when something smells fishy in Denmark - just in case they are wrong?

 

Most of us operate on a common sense/practical/courtesy platform - So we choose to skirt around a situation and give people the benefit of a doubt. There is nothing worse than being labeled as an Asshole With No Feelings???

If it starts coming to light that someone is trying to pull a fast one, we gloss over it - no sense in embarrassing someone, BUT...

 

Those are the people that you catch in a white lie - they tell you that they can't go to the concert - yet they tell you how good it was a week later? Then you have the yoyos who based on the position of the last lunar eclipse, high tide and barometric pressure are either at death's door or have the strength to go to Disneyland and ride Space Mountain 57 times because they can't get the photo at the end right?

 

As time goes on and her fucking wacky and dangerous 'cures', potions and poultices begin to catch on - someone, someplace is going to prove that they aren't as safe or helpful as she wants people to believe.

 

Her pomposity is going to be her downfall. She thinks she is smarter than people who have spent years of their lives going to school to become health care providers.....Even with Lyme Mind she is smarter than most of the population? People are starting to notice and it won't be long before someone points and makes a comment about the empress' new clothing line?

Edited February 22, 2016 by ElDosEquis

[cooksdelight]

Can you refresh my memory as to what she said to the movers and artist, I don't remember.

To the moving/construction guys, she jumped on them for not knowing how to speak fluent English. She got on her soapbox and preached about how they need to go to school and learn English.

The artist's show, I can't remember if he is someone one of the women knows, but Yo talked down to him and made him reduce his price for the painting she wanted. I think. She was haggling over the price is all I really remember.

[ElDosEquis]

To the moving/construction guys, she jumped on them for not knowing how to speak fluent English. She got on her soapbox and preached about how they need to go to school and learn English.

The artist's show, I can't remember if he is someone one of the women knows, but Yo talked down to him and made him reduce his price for the painting she wanted. I think. She was haggling over the price is all I really remember.

She made some remarks about that transaction that rubbed me the wrong way. IF SHE was so well-to-do, why not pay full price?

I never got the idea behind haggling for something you don't need?

[quaintirene]

Thing about Yo is that she is so monotonous.  Every day the same thing:  do you meet my (extremely high) bar for friendship;  yes I am really really truly truly sick and how dare you doubt this;

cropped white jeans; no one knows how much I suffer in silence.

 

Lather, rinse, repeat.