So the pity party for Marlo is still going on. She hasn’t shut up since last week. Making herself the victim as if she hasn’t been running her mouth and screaming at Kenya the entire season for no reason whatsoever. Unless you want to count extreme jealousy as a reason.
Not sure what the part was about fashion choices, and how she gets belittled because she likes to dress well. These are the Housewives. No one belittles you for dressing well. You get belittled for dressing badly. Does she really think this shit makes any sense to anyone? Nothing to do with why people judge her and don’t like her.
She gives Sanya a shout out for kissing her ass all season. Whatever. She wasted no time pulling the new girl on her side. Especially when she saw her not getting along with Kenya.
Kenya sees this is a bunch of fucking crap to get pity. She points out how this all sounds good, but things that she says do not match her actions. “What she wants us to believe is not what the actual truth is.”
I agree that whole tale of woe WAS a little much. People don’t like her because she’s a nasty vindictive narcissistic person, who is unlikable and difficult to get along with.
I don’t mean to be a dick and unsympathetic about her mom and her struggles, but Marlo being shuffled around, from foster home to foster home between the ages of 10 – 18, (I’m no math matician but that’s 8 fucking years!) and her mom couldn’t get her shit together at some point in those eight years and come for her daughter?
How do you sleep at night knowing you have a daughter in a foster home that you have NO idea if she’s even getting cared for or not, and don’t give a flying fuck? I don’t even know why she gives this woman the time of day honestly. On that visit, all her mom cared about was bringing some dude around?
She’s fucking 70, and that’s still her priority? And the dude couldn’t tell her to just spend time with Marlo and don’t worry about him?
Kenya goes on to say that whole diatribe she went on was just riddled with contradictions and hypocrisy. It was. You can’t go around bullying everyone else, belittling them, about their failed relationships, and whatever struggles they have, then sit there and dab at your half of a tear, and pretend you’re so devastated.
Sanya speaks up and defends Marlo about what a good friend she has been to her. Sanya needs to understand that Marlo treated her nicely for her own selfish purposes. She couldn’t have Sheree as her only ally, she needed at least one more. And there was Sanya desperate to be accepted by someone.
I’m sure Marlo picked up on Sanya’s need to be accepted by whomever accepted her, so therefore she has a different Marlo than Kenya, Kandi and Drew have. Sanya needs to stop defending her.
If she’s watched the show back, is she not seeing the way she spoke to Kenya and Kandi, and the way she treated Kenya, and to sit there and talk about her like she’s some kind of saint, is making her look really desperate and ridiculous.
Another housewife break in? YAWN. I have an idea, Bravo, how’s about we stop showing these ladies’ houses from the street constantly, so people in the area can easily recognize them – just a thought. Especially when you have them flaunting all of their pricey shit constantly.
Either that or they’re fake robberies for attention and story lines, or Bravo is behind the robberies for attention and story lines. It’s getting a little ridick. Everyone gets divorced, and then their houses broken into. Seems like a rite of Housewife passage.
So Kenya made this a thing about her, (she’s on the narc spectrum too -that’s why these two butt heads) and is accusing Marlo, of “withholding info” about the robbery from the other ladies but was “happy to do interviews.” Why couldn’t she just get her info from the said interviews?
Andy wants her to elaborate. She points out about Kandi’s issue that happened during filming, and apparently Drew also had a break-in ‘scare.’ (what the hell constitutes a ‘scare?’)
Kenya claims that on this group text, she suggested they get on a conference call to discuss it. I don’t know, sounds like a stretch for something to complain about Marlo. I’m really not understanding what she’s bitching about.
Andy addresses Marlo’s “sending the boys away for a month.” Right, she shouldn’t have said that she “kicked them out.” Especially after hearing her sob story about also getting kicked out of foster homes as a child. It was in no way the correct verbiage to use.
That is what made everyone so upset and judgy about it. She shouldn’t have said “I kicked them out, I told them they needed to goooooo” and it should definitely NOT been for an entire month. Three days, a week max. One week to reset, get a plan, get organized, clear your mind, because yes two kids, a teen and pre-teen is a lot for someone that doesn’t have kids. and even if she did have a child, raising and dealing with someone else’s kids is a whole different ball game.
The fact that she sent them to her sister’s who didn’t seem equipped for two more kids, for ONE ENTIRE month made it look like she just lost interest in the “mauntie” thing and wanted released of her responsibilities for a month. It doesn’t work that way. She was their guardian. Which is another word for ‘parent.’ A parent that kicked their kids out for a month would be viewed as a bad parent.
You know how when you sign your kids’ forms for school and doctor’s visits, etc, on that line it says ‘Parent/Guardian’ because they’re the same, they’re interchangeable. It was an irresponsible thing for her to do. It made her whole spiel about parenting those boys seem really disingenuous, about her, and not about them.
Her explanation starts out saying that she’s used to being this “cool mauntie, up on a pedestal buying them whatever they want” also comes off really shallow and disingenuous – her purpose isn’t to shower them with expensive shit, it’s too feed, water, clothe, and support them and giver them a parental figure, since this loser fucking sister sounds on the same pathetic level of her mom. Pops kids out, doesn’t give a rats ass about parenting them, and where they even are. And how do we think that makes them feel? Marlo should certainly understand that. And they’re boys so it get a little more complicated for them to be sad about this, and express that they miss their mom, and are upset she doesn’t seem to care about them. Boys are told to just suck it up and deal with it.
Andy’s not buying this, and not letting her off easy. Being a parent now, he can’t relate to just sending his kids away for a month because they’re annoying.
Andy: “It doesn’t land to me that you could be doing to the boys what you went through, and made them feel not wanted.”
Zackly Andy. And also so puzzling is the way she went fucking OFF about it during filming every time someone dared bring it up, is confusing. But she can talk about everyone else’s fucking families, their kids, husbands, ex-husbands, their moms.
And here’s Andy asking her the same fucking thing. Because it’s a valid question.
Kandi chimes in, that the one foster home Marlo was at that she spoke about, and was crushed when she was told she had to go because her daughter was jealous. Marlo felt that’s why she started acting out, that’s even more reason to not send them away like that.
Marlo’s excuse is kind of I don’t what’s the word? STUPID! Some shit about foster parents “taking classes on how to be a parent” and she didn’t have that. My God – okay so a lot of foster parents are already parents themselves. I doubt they take those classes seriously. And do you think MOST of them really are paying attention in those ‘classes?’ They’re just going through the motions and meeting their requirements.
And also has Marlo never heard of BOOKS? Or the internet?? There are PLENTY of other resources that she could have utilized if she needed tips and help. That probably would have be a lot better than the lame foster parent ‘classes.’ She sounds so stupid.
She says she came from the streets and was just figuring it out. Still doesn’t excuse kicking them out for an entire month and sending them to her sister’s where she knew she knew was struggling, and didn’t have the space or head space for two more kids, with four little ones of her own.
She could have sat her ass down, researched online or read a book on how to deal with kids in their age range and situation. Also she should shave known first hand, actually, being a “raised in the system” as she reminds us every ten minutes, what a child craves that feels abandoned by their mother. And I get it, they weren’t listening, they were acting out, not being model kids. That’s very frustrating. But she didn’t go about it the right way. And she needs to just own her mistake, and stop with the flimsy excuses.
Andy asks why she ‘spoils’ the foster girls, but wants the boys to be humble. Her answer was dumb. Again,
He asks about her sister, the boys’ mom and she just says, “we haven’t heard from her.” She didn’t really elaborate? Is she still in jail?
Haven’t heard from her? She hasn’t checked on her kids at all? If Marlo is up for it, and I hope she is now, I think she learned and realizes what she did was wrong, she should take the steps to adopt those kids.
They never discuss the dad or dads of Michael and William. So they basically have two parents that don’t give one flying fuck if they live or die. Sick. I hope Marlo gets her shit together and realizes too this isn’t about her. It also bothered me the way she was always making them give her praise and tell her she’s great. Teenage kids don’t do that shit. I know that stems a lot from her childhood, but just grow up Marlo. It’s not about you, it’s about them. You’ll see later in the article why I think this is.
Kenya asks for a tissue and Andy asks if she’s moved. “No my nose is cold.” Kenya mutters under her breath all of that Marlo went into about her nephews is “called damage control.”
“Hurt people hurt people” Marlo says and compares herself to Kenya. “That’s why she can never uplift me or give me anything positive.”
Was Marlo like watching the episodes back and seeing the way she treated Kenya ? The way it just screamed jealousy? In addition to Kenya being a lot prettier than her, I think it also bothers her that Kenya came from a troubled childhood also, and managed to move past it, and doesn’t cry about it and use it as an excuse. And I know Kenya can be lippy and not very nice too.
But Marlo is just so fucking bitter. All of the time.
So Drew and the gas lighting and that cringy scene where she said “I don’t think Ralph gas lights me.” Then proceeds to admit she has no fucking clue what the hell it means.
While it is becoming an overused and a lot of times misused term (like ‘triggering’) in Ralph and Drew’s case, gas lighting is an accurate descsription of how he treats her. I applauded Kenya for pointing it out in front of the group when he was literally doing it in front of the group in New York.
Dude looked fucking stunned. Just wish she wouldn’t have apologized to him the next day. That was so fucked up. Also, Ralph definitely WAS fucking around with that assistant chick. They flash to a bunch of ‘receipt’ related scenes.
The ‘gas lighting’ rhetoric was “a little much for Ralph.” Okay Poor fucking Ralph, who the hell cares about Ralph. He’s a piece of fucking shit and she needs to ditch his dumb ass. She’s “pushing through” she says, about her marriage. ‘Pushing through’ is I don’t believe how a marriage is supposed to be. If that’s how you’re describing it, then girl – HANG IT UP.
Can we stop fucking talking about Ralph the Big Mouth now? This football thing – clearly he was second fucking string if he never actually played! This isn’t hard ladies! Everything I know about football could probably fit on a 3” X 3” post it and I can figure it out. Why is Drew on the hot seat about it? Take it up with Captain Narcissist Gas lighter who made himself out to be this great fucking football player ! Drew defending him makes me want to puke.
Kandi was quick on the “Bitch I’m World Wide” merch as we knew she would be.
Kenya is up and they talk about the change in her. I thought too she seemed happy and in a good place. The way she was just blowing off stupid Marlo and her jealousy/hatred towards her was, I’m gonna go ahead and say iconic. It takes a lot to just blow that shit off and walk away and laugh it off, because it is hurtful. Even when you know it stems from jealousy (which should make you feel good right?) it’s still hurtful. Especially when you’re someone like me who doesn’t engage in that type of behavior. I’m jealous of people all the time. It’s normal. Would I be mean to them and tear them down because of it? No. At the end of the day, does that really help your situation? No.
Kenya talks about her ‘Dancing with the Stars’ experience, and how her dancing reminds her of her Grandmother and gets choked up. Marlo pretends to look empathetic. She does a bad job.
Sanya has a scowl on her face. I don’t think she realizes it. Why would she be scowling right now?
Kenya’s divorce proceedings are ongoing. She reminds me of Bethenney Frankel and her ex Jason. First of all, the divorce proceedings are longer than the actual marriage. And there’s a child involved, and they hate each other, like Jason and Bethenney.
She claims he’s not looking for money, but they can’t seem to come to a settlement. I think that means he IS looking for money. I can’t imagine Brooklyn custody is an issue since he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about that child.
Kenya is a really funny drunk. She seems to not get to the blacked out and bitter level. Just to the “woohoo!! let’s whooop it up level.” That’s the best kind of drunk. I love sometimes getting to that level and then just STOPPING.
She says s he’s doing ‘group dating’ which can be taken another way but she means she’s going out in a group as opposed to one-on-one.
Sanya gets asked if she can see Kenya’s annoyance at the phone call pointing out right away, that Jamaica is a ‘couples trip.’ I think the problem was her delivery in the phone call where the goal was to tell her she was more than welcome to bring a friend or bring whomever.
The first thing out of her mouth was “it’s a COUPLES’ TRIP” and it should have been – “hey I was calling to let you know, if you want to bring a friend or a plus one to the Jamaica trip you’re more than welcome to do so.” I don’t blame Kenya for hanging up on her. It did come off that she was taunting her. Why are we still in this day and age acting like it’s the end of the world if a woman isn’t married? Do they do that with dudes ? No. I’d rather be single and playing with myself than married to those sketchy dudes that Kandi and Drew are married to.
Now we’re on the Jamaica trip. We address Kenya’s odd freak out moment about missing the photo shoot whatever thing that Sanya was doing. Yes Kenya DID over dramatize that. And then when they flashed on some of Kenya’s poor hostesing skills in the past, it made it all the more stupid.
I would have rather done the boat thing too. And she seemed to have so much fun on the boat, did she not? Kenya said her whole thing about it was that she missed something important the previous day. Whatever.
Sanya says she assumed they just didn’t want to attend – and she had other shit going on and didn’t really think it was a huge deal. I think Kenya knows she was just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.
Sanya is being more articulate here than she was in some of the episodes, right? Sheree gets asked about her comment to Sanya about “handling Kenya.”
Andy asks about Sanya’s commentary about Kenya having a sob story every time she’s put on the spot about something. Kenya says she “was really disappointed to see her saying that because she said she had shared personal things with her and was trying to connect.”
Sanya defends Ross and standing up for her in Jamaica. So yeah that wasn’t such a big deal. Kenya also over blew that.
We travel way back to Little Brooklyn’s birthday party, and the ‘throwin shade’ segment of the party. Yeah that was weird. All the mom’s getting pissed and leaving was funny though.
Dick sucking is the topic now. Why does Kenya do this “I’m so embarrassed” thing? Didn’t she make some racy movies back in the day? Don’t think I knew that until it was brought up this season by Kandi when she was annoyed with Kenya making a whole thing about the vibrating panties.
Sanya the Olympian – yawn. Sorry just can’t get excited about someone’s claim to fame being that they run fast. And jumping ship from representing her country to representing the United States, doesn’t sit right with me either.
And I don’t get as a married supposedly successful woman in her mid thirties with a child, that needs to have her mommy living with her and doing shit for her. It’s not like she has a 9-5 where she needs a full-time sitter.
And the nine people living in her house, her sister and her whole family, her mom and dad. Just like why? Figure it out girl like normal people do. A lot of women have husbands that work a lot and travel. It seems like she’s opting to be coddled instead of being a real adult. Didn’t mean to turn this into an ‘I hate Sanya’ thing, because I don’t.
Omg they flash to her crying fit with Ross about a second baby, “even though I have 20 people living in this house to do shit for me, I still feel overwhelmed.” I added some of that.
She didn’t know how to work her STOVE. So just STOP. IT. Can’t imagine how easy my life would have been having someone to cook and clean for me every fucking day, and just take my kids when I didn’t feel like dealing with them.
So there may be a baby, nine months from now perhaps? Since they’re ‘away together’ now as Andy points out. Yes it would be nice to be away when you live in a house with 20 fucking people ? How do you even have sex with your husband knowing your parents might hear you or come knocking on the door?
Don’t know what Drew’s constipated face is all about right now – maybe she’s just – constipated ??
That whole are we having another baby or not seemed more like a pissing match between her and Ross, and gave her something to talk about. Who really cares. Sure, add another human to the boarding house that you’re running. How many fucking bedrooms are there in that place? This needs to wrap up, I’m getting bored. Do you think we need a Part 3? I think we do not.
Drew gets asked about the “shut up, and please your husband” comment. It did come off kind of subservient, but when you see her and Ralph’s dynamic, it makes sense she would say that.
These scenes of Marlo trying to emotionally destroy Kenya are disturbing. Especially at Drew’s exercise thing and the comments about Marc.
One reason why that whole tearful spiel about her past just makes you roll your eyes and not take her seriously. Marlo gets asked by a viewer if it kind of makes sense that Kenya doesn’t like her after all of the disgusting things she has been saying. Marlo deflects, because she has no answer for that.
And says she only had time for her, when she didn’t want her to be Porsha’s friend. No one asked about Porsha. Then they all start talking at once of how she didn’t want anyone to be friends with her. I’m sure Porsha is stoked, she’s not even on the show and they’re all discussing and fighting about her. Wonder how she’s doing with her newest sugar daddy.
Andy moves it along with another viewer question. Same question sort of though. “do you think Kenya will ever be your friend after you disrespect her continuously?” Marlo goes on a weird sarcastic mockery rant thing about how she doesn’t know WHAT she’s going to do without Kenya as a friend.
So riddle me this, why does she expect Kenya to “call her, check on her and ‘uplift’ her” but all she does is put Kenya down and ridicule her? Why does she expect even the people that she treats badly to ‘uplift her’ and treat her like a queen? Well guess what, here’s a shocker. I know! I was researching narcissism (another shocker) and apparently there are different types. She is what’s called a ‘vulnerable narcissist’ which stems usually from childhood trauma. So that certainly fits the bill.
They demand to be treated supremely and with the utmost respect, however they believe they can treat others any way they wish, and be as shitty as they want. They don’t really care about others’ feelings. And they don’t feel the need to defend it. They need to constantly be validated. This is evident in her interaction with Michael and William. The boys need to constantly tell her she’s great and stroke her ego, or she gets pissed.
It’s often misdiagnosed as bipolar because their emotions tend to be all over the place and weird, and they seem a little wacko. Happy one second, laughing to having a tantrum about how you hurt their feelings, didn’t validate them, and did something really really wrong. The Kenya dynamic with her, is a perfect example. I assume this is how she would behave in a romantic relationship as well.
She says the most vile and revolting things, and you’re supposed to sit there and take it, and not even retaliate. And giving them a taste of their own medicine? Forget it. Don’t try that. The idea of her having the gall to be sitting there and expecting Kenya to check on her and “lift her up” when she has been saying such horrible things to her about her ex, and her daughter, and that thing with her mom in a previous season? Maybe you know someone with this disorder. I do. It really is a serious disorder, and you cannot reason with them, and make them understand any type of logic whatsoever when they’re in this zone, and convincing themselves you are not giving them the proper attention and accolades that they think they deserve.
Here’s a good article on it, and it sounds just like Marlo, oh, and my ex-BF.
Kenya calls her fake, and says her name is actually LaToya Hutchinson. Marlo said she gave that as a fake name when she was arrested twenty year ago. Somehow we got to Kenya’s taxes, and Kenya telling Marlo that she can’t even “prove her income.” So, by the look on Marlo’s face, I would say that may be true. Especially when looking at the sketchiness of this ‘Le’Archives’ supposed business she has. It just doesn’t sound right. I know renting out designer clothes and accessories is a thing, but it seems off.
Kenya goes on a Marlo rant about her being in jail previously (for slashing a woman’s face – yikes) but rips on others for being in jail.
Marlo screams that Kenya is a liar. Andy asks her about the jail thing. She keeps stressing that it was COUNTY jail for some fucking reason. Jail is jail girl. She said the experience woke her up, and had a few minor infractions afterwards.
Now Sheree and her not paying people habit thing.
She defends herself that she has all of her people she needs to pay in her phone or whatever? I don’t know. Now the infamous Anthony, who was kind of a Housewife in the first handful of episodes, who said he was Sheree’s assistant, and she never paid him. I didn’t understand anything he said on the voicemail that Drew played, and the subtitles made no sense. Sheree calls Antony and he says he was never her assistant, and, “to be honest she owes him no money.”
She tells him Drew played a recording of him saying otherwise I guess? He gets asked about Ralph being gay, and does the old Housewife trick – “maybe I did say that but I don’t recall it.”
He now claims that he doesn’t think Ralph is gay, and eludes that Drew used this for a story line.
Whatever. Wish we would have had the annoying husbands out and wrapped this up.
I do really like their dresses. Love the color, don’ t think there are any that I hate.
