RHONY Recap & Childhoods

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We are going to be discussing the real housewives of New York and specifically this weeks episode. There have continued to be lots of rumors surrounding Jessel’s egg retrieval, in vitro, and now the debate starts over her  birth county. She certainly doesn’t do herself any favors! more on that in another blog. We get the ladies going on a girls trip, but Jenna leaves a day early taking a separate business class flight. 
When the ladies arrive, they seem agitated with Jenna and are looking for an explanation. Jenna very delicately, and begins to explain again about her physical issues that caused her great insecurity with her skin imperfections. the ladies don’t seem to the buying it. Sai lets Jenna know immediately that Erin has thrown her under the bus and told the ladies that Jenna wanted to fly business and this was the actual reason she left a day early.
The most interesting part of the entire episode was the ladies speaking about their childhood. Sai  shares about her mother becoming an alcoholic once I was about the age of 16. She explains that her mother died of her alcoholism and a heart attack on a park bench alone.
The saddest part was that she still felt the need to defend her mother, explaining that the woman her mother became after she started drinking, was not the same Mother’s Sai had throughout her childhood. 
I work with women in mental health and/or suffer with a dual diagnosis of  drug and alcohol addiction, and the gap in standard to which women and mothers are held in comparison to men and fathers is vast. We are seeing it before our very eyes when it comes to RHONJ. Look at all the audience and fans are responding to John son’s mother Brittany, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol. I have often heard people giving John a pass and in the same breath calling Brittany a POS mother. We all really respected Rachel when she said in her confessional that she would let Brittany tell her own story…

Something changed mid season between Rachel, John, and producers because their perspective and vocalized statements about Brittany became unfair or unflattering. 

The ladies from the real housewives of New York should be given lots of kudos for showing such vulnerability and sharing about their messed up childhood. Often we see housewives, rewriting, history, or telling it how they remember things just to save face or what they consider to be 2nd hand embarrassment. 

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