Hello Bravo lovers! Sorry I missed you last week but I had just started my 30-day program at a wellness center in Florida and I wasn’t feeling well enough to focus on writing a sensible blog.
After 85 days of IV antibiotics and minor results, I’ve decided to give the holistic route a shot. Thank you so much for all of your well wishes, I am truly touched by your kindness.
It’s nice to see some sisterhood from Kim and Kyle, as best friends of Taylor’s, it seems appropriate for them to worry about her and have that so difficult talk. I love the way Kim took charge and is now taking on the reversed roll in trying to help others, maybe she is finding her new mission in life.
We all know it was a conversation long past due. As much as I have disliked Taylor’s drunken antics, I have to say she seemed very sincere when confronted and definitely owned her issue. I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved. Taylor’s tragedy is the unthinkable and more then anyone could possibly handle but I am hopeful she can pull her life together for the sake of her little Kennedy.
I was excited to have the gang over to Mohamed’s for a little house warming cocktail party and showing of his latest creation. Even though I mention his infidelity at this point after 12 years, I have forgiven him and choose not to remember the pain it caused me but only what it taught me.
Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego. But at the end of the day, the children’s happiness and well-being is all that ever mattered to me. I truly believe that they love both parents equally and they deserve to have both parents in their life peacefully.
My children are blessed with three parents; David is extraordinary and an absolute blessing in our life. He has always been so great with Mohamed and is an incredible stepfather to our children. It’s really special to see the mutual respect between two men that are connected through circumstances.
I am not that blessed in the ex-wives club, but I have great stepdaughters and I will always keep trying to bring everyone together and take great pride in being the driving force behind our big unconventional family.
Taylor was one of the women who did not really embrace me coming into this group and I kept hearing that she had issues with me so I finally decided to confront her.
Even though I don’t believe we can or need to all be best friends, I still feel we need to look each other in the eyes and be honest. Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit! Maybe if Taylor had taken the time to have a coffee with me, she might have liked me before she wasted her precious time not liking me.
I just realized she is now trying to make it about my husband. Geez, she doesn’t even know my husband so she is judging him on whatever his ex-wife has told her. . .
Well Miss Taylor, remember there are always three sides to a story. His, hers, and the truth, so maybe get the other two-thirds of the story before you let your mouth run on someone you don’t even know!
Anyway, more to come on this subject. . .
I am so happy Brandi and David finally met, as you remember she was out of town for the diner party at our house.
Brandi is right, we had that instant connection when we met. Even though we might use different communication tools, our lives were pretty similar growing up and I absolutely respect her honesty. She is straightforward and I love knowing she has my back.
Off to France we are. . .
I absolutely loved seeing Grandpa Ken with Ryan. How cute was that?
I am excited to go on the girls’ trip to Paris because if I am going to invest my time into this group, it’s important to explore our new friendships and start creating new memories together so we can move on from all the negative stuff from the past couple of months.
Sadly the trip started with the terrible news of Richard Zanuck’s passing. What a shock!
I don’t know Marisa and Dean very well but I did know Richard and Lilly. Such a loss! It definitely put things in perspective for everyone. Especially in this group of women where there is so much drama and precious time wasted arguing. It kind of brought us close and everyone began making a conscious effort to get along and really enjoy every minute of every day.
We sat around and talked a lot on our flight to Paris and started to bond on a different level then the more superficial way at a lunch or dinner party. Once we got to Paris, the fireworks were just the perfect welcome to the most romantic city in the world. The only thing missing was my love and a boyfriend for Brandi and Kim.
I guess Brandi thinks one would have been enough for both.
I personally did not think much of Kim being late, but then again, I don’t know her in her previous life and am just getting to know her.
Anyways it’s going to be a lot of fun exploring Paris with the Beverly Hillbillies!
Make sure you tune in next week because you don’t want to miss it!
Until then, au revoir.
xoxo
Yo
Yolanda is starting to get as catty as the other HW hags.Her and her little girl white jeans and high heel blue sneakers.Her hair is a mess most of the time.She is very beige/vanilla and does not fit in money or not.
She is trying to up her drama level so that her contract gets renewed, I suspect, but she puts me into a coma. I think it is because she thinks she is so perfect.
I really like Yolanda ! I like how she is so straight forward. I can take her an Lisa all day long.
Me also! Then again, I can take Teresa and Nene all day, and for totally different aesthetics. But, the commonality is I like people true to themselves, and as woman in forties or fifties not trying to find their voice.
Me too cyn. i didn’t think i liked her in the beginning but i do now.I love her little girl white jeans,i love the way she dresses.
I agree Cyn. I think Yolanda has provided some much-needed honesty and class to this show. She and Lisa are the best of the bunch.
ITA cyn Yolanda tells it the way it is and holds back no punches. I like the down to earth way she dresses (that’s my style) and I find nothing wrong with her hair at all. I’m hoping that she is well enough to come back next year. I feel she’s an asset along with Lisa.
I like Yolanda also; love her style. I too can relate most to her down to earth way of dressing. Jeans, white button down tops
. Love her in sneakers.
I hope she is feeling better soon; it’s sad to struggle with health issues.
So does anyone know is Morris got the listing of this house of Mohammed??? I don’t think he did – but I could be wrong. I don’t picture Mohammed relating to Morris – he would see right through his lame, fake, kissass sales tactics. Plus I bet Lisa/Ken have had ol ghetto Morris blackballed as an agent with their crowd.
Pinky: Coldwell Banker has the listing: http://stoopidhousewives.com/2012/10/28/yolanda-foster-lisa-vanderpump-yolandas-ex-husband-lisas-ex-neighbor-mohamed-hadid-trying-to-unload-massive-mansion/ TFC!!! SH
Still a YoFo fan here. She says it like it is without the ‘dun dun dun’ drama that goes along with it.
On a side note, I’m not sure I can watch the duck beheading next week. I don’t care that it’s already dead…. I hate that stuff….
I hate that saying about three sides to every story. Sometimes someone IS telling the truth. It kind of implies that in EVERY situation both people are wrong and that is just not true. Im not talking about the episode..I havent watched it yet. Just a general comment.
I know hate it too, especially when one is an honest truthful person. Cuz then there are only 2 sides, the liar and the truth teller. The assumption that everyone lies is insulting to me. So is that what Yolanda is telling us here, that she lies? I mean how do we really know that David fosters ex is still in love with him , as per yolanda, and wants to be with him, last I checked many delusional men make that claim.
I don’t think that it means everyone lies. I means everyone sees things through their own filter. Much like watching RHOBH show and how we all seem to have our own take on a person or what happened. Your view, my view and what is.
Sometimes that may be the case. Unfortunately, that saying is often used by the guilty party, or someone wanting to excuse the guilty party, to deflect responsibility for his or her own bad behavior.
Not everyone.. just the liars. I have always hated that phrase too and like I said the other day IRL I usually only encounter it when I am dealing with a liar. Just because the IRL liar has an effed up view of sumpin dont mean that I gotta concede. Now different opinions is one thing but when it comes to recounting an actual event that happened, its either a lie or the truth. Just because someone is too mentally or morally deficient to see the truth for what it is it aint my problem. I am talking stricly IRL situations. You know how I do Cyn, Black/ White. Right/Wrong Cause/Effect. Taint no grey ‘ceptn in that filthy book a fifty whoopins.. oh yeah and this song
And in that case of “Linda never got over David” its no longer just perception once Yolonda stated that Linda actually said that. She either said it or she didn’t. And either way if Linda and David have kids together and these are the step-children that Yolonda speaks of being the “driving force” for then her mentioning it at all makes her a liar in that respect as well. I was disturbed by the turn that took last night because I like Yolonda but I gots ta call it like I see it.
I’ll have to watch the show when it comes on in full, I didn’t see that part.
I know in my current situation, my husband’s ex has a lot of anger that is shown when she comes to our door and through their kids. I know I have to keep it together – meaning, I’m not their mother, but there are ways all the kids need to behave in our house (i.e., no lying, hitting, manipulation, etc.) and while my husband disciplines his kids, and I do mine, listening to and dealing with their mother’s anger is a daily event at my house. Not sure if YoFo has that kind of issue or just things she’s heard/discussed with the ex-wife directly or through the kids. But it is a hard job being a step-parent.
She said Linda actually said that. Like I just said to Cyn. If she said it then Yolonda has a right be pissed and since they have no kids in common then Yolonda is free to shout the truth of it from the mountaintops.
David and Linda didn’t have children together. She has 2 boys by Bruce Jenner. I have to tell you if an ex wife made that statement to my husband I would be pissy too! Since they don’t share children together at least they don’t have to interact and distance is good way to solve that.What it has to do with Taylor is beyond me. Then again Taylor is void of moral and ethical boundaries so who knows.
Thank you. Then she is off my hook in the mouthy manipulative stepmommy department. And I agree if Linda said that and Yolonda repeated it then its just her repeating the truth. Again no tree sides there She either did or didn’t. And so far nothing I have seen Yolonda do indicates to me that she is predisposed to lying so I tend to believe her Linda on the other hand just by associating with the likes of SWINE makes her suspect in the truthful category. Either way if the facts ever present themselves there are only two sides truth/lie.. not perception here.
That Linda character sure does get around. It seems like one big incestuous reality pool. From the Jenner connection to the RHOBH to Sonja & Luanne dating Aviva’s ex husband- can’t they find some new prospects out there? It just is gross and desperate. Have some pride,People! Oh, I forgot pride doesn’t exist in reality tv.
Oh, oh oh! girlfriend don’t get me started on the “everyone lies” issue….did you see the 48 hours about it? they actually said that very thing and I wanted to jump through my screen. I hope this doesnt come across wrong, but my son actually said “mom, i’ve never seen you tell a lie” and that was my proudest moment as a parent. I really don’t. If you are lying you are likely covering up something and I also try to do the right thing. I mess up but I own up and make amends when I do. I’m as annoyed as you are with that old adage.
(maybe not 48 hours but one of those news shows)
My kids still aint gotten over the Santy clause lie. Whenever I harp on telling the truth they bring that up.
I just had to comment on the three sides to every story. It does deal with perception. You know your truth and the other person has their truth. It doesn’t mean either one is lying, they might just view the situation differently. Truth deals in facts, not emotion or perceptions. There have been experiments done where two intruders come in and later people have give their descriptions. Witness testimony is often across the board. Not because any of them are lying, their perceptions are just different.
So if somebody breaks into your home, holds your family at gunpoint, steals all you have…would you expect the policeman taking the report to say “Well there are three sides to every story”? I dont care what the robbers perception is. A perception can be wrong, too. There are still some black and white, right and wrong, in this world. And I see it fading. But I know what I am teaching my kids. I hope there are others.
I like YoFo, I like how she callled out Traylor, Traylor did not know what to say; what’s wrong Traylor, you can’t pull out any Oklahoma? YoFo has her number!
I like YoFo too. She’s vanilla/beige until she needs to speak up and she’s right when she does and she is cool the way she does it.
I also like her hair in the other video where the bangs are swept to the side and she has that side, low twist bun in the back. I guess like the way Brandi looks in the wallpaper.
As for the saying about truth… I think she just finds that some people may lie, may get it wrong. My problem is if I don’t know what the truth is, how do I get it unless I see with my own eyes/ears. I can decide then what is the truth and work from there. It may not jive with someone else’s interpretation.
YoFo is calming. Like Lisa. I think that is the major appeal for me in the midst of all these jacked up women. She’s not always right, but she doesn’t flake out or flip out and she has a better sense of how to act, what is right and wrong and she is not forcing it on anyone.
Everytime Kim wears a ponytail, she either cries or there’s a fight or both. She should leave her hair down. JMTC.
Unabashed YoFo fan. She does not insert herself in the drama and is quite capable of defusing situations with her calm no nonsense statements. Ya know Bravo Mandy hates her for that very reason.
YoFo and Lisa are calming and I know that is my appeal to those players. My goals are to eliminate stress in my life. I have figured out in my mature years that it is easy to walk away from rubbish like the housewives drama (well Bravo actually ….it’s all the same crap anymore). Watching the previews of Icky Vicky and her face splitting in two from screaming is a horror flick complete with nightmares! I know I will not be able to watch the OC this season. Good news……..Duck Dynasty new season starts this week……calm and quirky for me.
“Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego” Yeah, yo, it also takes a $6 million house in Malibu, a mansion in Santa Barbara, several cars including an Escalade and Range Rover, $30,000 in monthly child support and a whopping $3.6 million cash payout.
That may help, but it’s not necessary. I have a friendship with my ex-husband. My husband has no issues with him and my boys know we all love them, no drama. There was no cheating, so maybe it is easier for us, but the effect is the same.
And there was no settlement in our divorce. We had nothing in terms of assets.
LOL, ok there is THAT too
What cha wanna bet if I called WWHL next time YoLo is on and tell them my question would be is JoHo from RHOM the one that slept with your ex for a purse (or whatever the line was)they would not let my call through? Or maybe they would. Seems to me like Yolonda is just itchin to put that factoid on blast.
As the cliche goes “the rich are different from you and I”. Quite sure the things you mentioned are in some way compensatory but it takes quite a bit of maturity to forgive and move forward for the sake of your children. One does not equal the other as we clearly see.from other’s behavior. Bittterness and pride destroy the person holding on to it not the object of it.
Ain’t: You you kidding? “Some way compensatory”??? PFFFT! It was a LOT compensatory! The cliche “money is the root of all evil” is incorrect… it should be: LACK of money is the root of all evil. As much as we like YoFo at SH, having that cushion to fall on would help anyone “forgive and forget”! SH
It’s much easier to be divorced with money than without !
In the words of Ivanna Trump: don’t get mad, get everything.
original: That there is da truth! TFC!! SH
Malaika,
Just gotta say I know of plenty of divorces that had more monetary items than the example you site, but were easily 10 times as nasty. The money is not as often the determining factor IMO. Respect, communication, and follow through seem to help more in my own personal experience. YMMV.
I agree SDH, I’m just fed up with Yo’s act: she’s the perfect (4th??) wife, perfect mom (who’s afraid her daughter might be “a lesbian”) , perfect ex wife. Come on did she really think Mohamed would be faithful? Has he ever been? I don’t like the interaction between her and Mohamed in front of the kids. Makes me highly uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s creeeeeepy, but she did not marry him for love and faithfullness. Let’s cut the BS please.
I’m so fed up with the entire cast…with the exception of the three I do love, Lisa, Brandi and Yolanda. I wish Bravo would fire all the others and form this show solely around those three women. They make a great three musketeers!
Yolanda better keep kissing David’s ass.He has a pattern of not staying married too long.He will trade her in in time.He will be like Hugh Hefner $$ can get you as much young ass as you want.I dont see them together til death do them part.He has a roaming eye just stopped on her for a bit.
Yolanda said last week she had just started her 30 day treatment. Last night she tweeted from the plane that she couldn’t wait to land at home. Am I off or is she lying?
I really like Yolanda. First, she is beautiful and statuesque. Second, she has class. The other girls look beautiful, but they are really not in the same category as Yolanda, that is clear. Lisa is a nice girl, very thoughtful and classy. The fact that Yolanda can get along with everyone including her philandering ex-husband speaks volumes. I am obsessed with her blue high heeled sneakers. So cute! I love her casual, but chic style. To me she is a trendsetter.
I really like her too.I am impressed with the way she speaks to people, she looks them in the eye and really listens to their comments and responses. And she seems to think before she speaks, unlike most of the housewives.Yolanda has a good aura about her. And I agree, Robin White, that her style is lovely.It is relatable and tasteful. God forbid any of the other housewives leave the house without 4 inch heels, a face caked in makeup and their boobs on display.Yolanda is a perfect example that sometimes less is so much more.
I like her too. She looks people in the eye. But has anyone else noticed that she is a “close talker”? Like…up in your personal space, I gotta back up…kind of close. Last episode Kyle was squinting and edging her way backwards when YoFo was talking to her because you could tell she was just way too close. Maybe its a cultural thing. Dutch thing?
Oh! I did’nt notice. Maybe it’s the only way to get an answer from shifty eyed Kyle.
Yes, she is not shifty, she is in your face, but I also admire that. She very commanding. I do think that is a dutch or germanic thing, very “Viking” like when she confronted Taylor. She was not mean, she just was like hey, have you a problem with me, let’s just deal with it. I think that takes the other girls aback, they step back because she’s a force to be reckoned with, in a sense. She knows who she is, and doesn’t seem to talk behind backs, which is very cowardly.