I notice something very interesting yesterday. TooFab.com posted not one but two stories on Kim Richards. Why did I find that so interesting? Well it wasn’t the articles themselves as much as it was that she was doing press at all. Kim has been treated differently from the other housewives ever since she appeared on the show. She has rarely been expected to write a blog, her battle with alcoholism has been exploited by both her sister and the production team, and in general Kim has been excluded from any press. She did recently appear on WWHL, but it really didn’t do much to uplift her image. So why would Kim suddenly be out giving interviews with the reunion only days away? I have a theory.
First let’s look at what she said. In one article she said that despite her on camera fight with Brandi during the reunion, she is really still friends with Brandi. In fact, she says she is getting along great now with Kyle, and they are hanging out and attending family functions together. According to Kim, things are back to where they should be. Kim says that the only person she is not still friendly with is Adrienne. Side note: Kyle on the other hand still is friends with Adrienne and continues to attend Adrienne’s “parties.”
The other article on TooFab includes this interesting quote:
“I never really had very much pain at all – and when I saw what I looked like on camera I was like ‘I look so bad’ but I just never had much pain,” she says. “I kept it iced, but the pain never really happened, it never really hurt. I was just very relaxed. I didn’t even have very much bruising.”
Richards added, “He [Dr. Gregorian] would say I might have some pain and bruising the next day and it just never came, almost like a miracle — a blessing from above. I just didn’t have that experience [like everyone else]. He does them every day and said he’s never seen anything like this before. My bandage even fell off because there was no swelling. I just did everything he told me to do prior.”
Kim had such a pain free nose job that her doctor has never seen anything like it. It apparently looked really bad on TV without any pain or bruising or swelling! It was a modern miracle!
Is Kyle sending Kim out on a media tour trying to generate a fan base to keep her relevant to RHOBH? Is Kim the mysterious second person on the chopping block? Contracts for the next season generally come out in the weeks after the reunion is filmed. I’m just saying. Do you think this last ditch effort will work? Will we be seeing Kim on the next season of RHOBH? Do you care either way?
Dear God I hope not. Sorry, but not only is Kim self-unaware, which all these women are, but she takes it to another level, but she uses Kyle as a crutch. Also, she too weak to be on a show like this. Kim should’ve left last season and now she should definitely leave and only make sporadic appearances.
I agree with every word you said. Yoiu said it all in a nutshell! (In describing this nut job….)
I’ve never understood why Kim stayed on the show after rehab, except to collect her paycheck. She rarely shows up for anything or when she does she’s as high as the Eiffel Tower. No pain, huh? Then why the supposed peach pills mix ups? Kim needs alone time, away from the cameras to really get over her addiction & personality DSM III behavior. She needs a good therapist, not a Reality Show. Really. Bravo is enabling her baffling problems for ratings. Not cool or ethical. Let her go & heal without an audience. Otherwise, she’s gonna crack like a walnut. Anyway, that’s my take on Kim’s Sybil-like persona.
I think Kim is on the show because she hasn’t had a job for years and needs the $$.
As Kyle has stated, “my husband has to support you like a damn second wife.”
Kim blogged today on Bravo. 1 comment, 0 people listening. A non-star has imploded.
Ouch!
I thought Kim looked and acted much better this season but to be honest, I wouldn’t mind if they fired the entire cast of RHOBH down and got a new team or moved to a new city. I’m sick of watching Kim and Kyles cry-a-thons every episode. Without Adrienne there would be anybody for Lisa and Brandi to fight with, Marisa was boring as hell and I don’t want to see Taylor again. What’s left to have a show about?
Totally agree…and what used to be the “classiest” group of Real Housewives have degraded into mudslinging whack-a-dos. Brandi trash bag persona might be better suited on Mob Wives.
I agree, Michael. If I have to watch Kyle cry on queue again….well, I won’t. I’m sick of those two. They bring Nothing of interest. They fire Taylor but not Kim? Oh, pleeze!
Michael, Kim is a mess. A mean, nasty, narcissistic woman living in her Kim-bubble where she sorts her peach pills & practices looking & acting like Marilynn Monroe. Unfortunately, she’s a wrinkled hag that desperately needs a psychiatric bubble and/or institute. I can’t help but wonder why we watch these women & then write & talk about them? Is something wrong with us? At least Tamara gets paid–I think. But we don’t. Is it kinda like train watching or slowing down to see an accident. I’ve stopped watching cacadoodle Teresa on the mob show. Her voice gives me ear wax & her husband is a nasty gorilla so scary that he makes me want to go out & buy a gun. Couldn’t take it. I liked the DC Wives because at least there was a modicum of intelligence & arrogance so atrocious they took it off the air. Maybe these shows are a type of female sport? Instead of wrestling, we watch Kim & Kyle verbally beat each other up. And Adrienne go down in flames by her own lies? Sorry to get so philosophical, it’s just that some people get so riled up they send Faye death threats. And Brandi intervenes while Adrienne does nothing? Is there a pull of Venus on our planet? Will our toilets flush counter clockwise? Will satellite TV get confused & lower my bill? Just wondering… Soon the OC Wives premiers & the cycle begins all over again. Make the lambs stop. Please.
I wasthinking the exact same rhing the other day while I was looking at a picture of Kim and Kandi that Tamara has on the piece about the lawsuit over Tardy. I looked at that picture and it made me sick. THEY made me sick, and I cant believe Ive watched and put money in these disgusting people’s hands is what went through my mind. I think Im reaching my breaking point very soon though. I hope so, if things dont start changing with these shows/women.
I don’t care if she comes back or not. She seems like a nice person, but I’m sick of Kyle treating her badly. If she doesn’t come back, at least I won’t Have to watch her own sister be horrible and fake to her.
I’m sick of hearing Kyle cry with that exorcists voice of hers. Gives me the creeps.
I thought this whole season was boring as hell. I’m bored with the cast and the set up story lines. The Vanderpump spin off show was one of the worst “reality” shows on TV. It’s time to dump this city and find another.
The whole franchise is stale.
I think you are correct.
Did anyone know Andy made Kyle a producer? I guess if Kim has a total meltdown, he won’t get the blame. I guess Kyle is Kim’s insurance policy. But producers get fired all the time. So Kyle shouldn’t sit on her chunky laurels. They’ve kept this pretty hus-hush, haven’t they?
If she came back as lucid as she was for a 1/4 of this season then I’d love to see her again. She’s a riot in a good way when she’s totally sober.
Agree Karma, I just watched a clip of Kim at Lisa’s party. There is no doubt in my mind that she is taking something. I’m no specialist but anyone can see that she is a little loopy just in the short clip of her. Don’t know if being on the show is helping her or hurting her.
I’m taking Kim at her word right now and chalk up what you notice to bad acting. Most actors act ‘loopy’ with no script and they have to ad lib. They are clueless. I keep hoping Kim has a hobby b/c I don’t think she’ll be getting many acting parts in future; despite her desire to jump start her career.
Nah, she’s mean as a viper. When she’s high, she’s goofy.
The sister’s dynamic has always been awful straight from the beginning. Kyle’s ugly crap that she flung at Kim in the limo at the season 1 finale dirtied it for the viewer. It’s completely unforgivable that Kyle spat that out on camera. Kim’s drinking gave Kyle a pass to be nasty (no pass from me). So fast forward 2 seasons and Kim’s still a mess and Kyle still stole Kim’s house. Only now, Andy’s made Kyle a producer; I figured she’d be the one to sell her soul.
I didn’t know Andy made Kyle a producer! GROAN……. Does that mean she will never be thrown off the show?? I can not stand her. And why does she do that look with her lips stuck out? She is a beast. Inside and out.
Andy is very smart. He gave Kyle some production powers and allowed her to exploit her own sister. This way if the crap his the fan in public opinion due to the exploitation he can say, it was not me…..checkmate!
what does the screen credit read? assoc prod? They are giveaways and mean NOTHING. She can and I PRAY she will be fired. I can’t watch anymore if she is on.
Would we even notice her absence? They could hire a voice actor to do the perfunctory one minute scene over the phone saying she can’t make it
Hope to the Lord above that both the Richards sister would leave this show. Just like you guys mentioned, Kyle has had a small ownership and producer privledges since the get-go. This is very infortunate cause I’m guessing that means she stays-ugh! She and Morris are sleeze boring and use people for commissions and connections. Without Kim, Kyle has NO storyline. She is shoving Portia in the camera alot – and that just doesn’t do it for me. I really hate how Andy ruined all these shows thinking the only drama the viewers want is mean nasty, stupidity. Losers.
Please, please make this her and her nasty sisters last season! I have never been able to stand this fake broad and feel she is disrespectful to honest recovering addicts all over. I think I join so many other of
Sigh…sorry…my big fingers. Just think this show has run its course and the ladies have lost their gas. Except for Brandi, I think she could carry her own show.
The only story line Kim has other than the dysfunctional relationship she has with her sister is going to rehab and relapsing. All the information that gets passed over about her is frustrating. Why doesn’t she have custody of her kids? Is her brain completely fried because that chick is as loopy as a crocheted sweater. She brings nothing to the table like Camile and like Camile has a shady underbelly no one seems to want to acknowledge. That show needs some real new blood. I like Brandi and Yolanda. I adore Lisa. Vile Kyle needs to be confronted for the manipulative wench she is and what is with her dirty looking husband so full of himself from kissing anyone with a bank accounts a**? Just ewww!
Kyle’s storyline is exploiting her Sister. It even makes me not like her more to find out she has a role on the production side. If she truly cared for her sister she would have stressed for her to quit last season… Being on a reality show is no way to deal with your deamons.
Well if Kyle is actually pushing to try to get her sister another season, then she is the worst sister in the world, and just a horrible person FOR REAL! It is the worst thing for Kim for a million reasons. I actually like Kim, but I think its just because of her background and how awful her sister treats her. Child stars usually have tumultuous lives. At least from that era. Uck! Just when you think you can’t dislike Kyle any more than you already do. She and Faye are perrrfect for eachother.
Kyle is just acting like her mother did, pushing her daughters into finding rich men, tv shows and whatever else.
Kyle is boring, Kim is entertaining because Bravo is exploiting her troubled life. They couldnt care less if she died, just like Taylors husband.
Look, they want people who are willing to do anything for a little bit of money. It brings out the worst of the worst……like having a sister being fine with exploiting her sister no matter what.
Andy Cohen is nothing more than a pimp.
She can go. She pops off at that mouth and then when you say something back to her, she looks at Kyle for help or tries to clown you. Or she says its a “low-blow”. She is a punk – without Kyle, who is a gossip herself.
I NEVER thought I would say this, but I actually want Taylor to stay and Kim to go. The only ones that should DEFINITELY stay are Lisa and Yolanda. I agree with Greg Q everyone looked forward to RHOBH, because it was ‘the classiest’ group of women. This season was just bad.
I think she should be on one more season. i would like to see where she will go from here. She is alcohol free got her nose job now let’s see what she can do.
Eve – I agree with you 100%. And think about this – Kyle ( from the start) has some small % ownership and pivledges as a “producer, ” On this show. From the start, Kim has always been filmed in a negative way. That, I believe is all Kyle’s doing. This discusting fame ho is so jealous of her sister from childhood that I think she loves having all the “star” attention and Kim the “pathetic” one. I would guess that most of Kim’s insecurites are strictly from the evil sister all her life and now Kyle & Morris – example = taking (stealing) Kim’s ownership of the PalmSprings home while Kim was mentally impared due to alcohol/substance abuse. I hate Kyle and Morris.
Kyle is a total hyprocrite, she and Maurice seriously kissed Adrienne’s ass in hoping to get the listing. It’s just so obvious. Kyle and Kim need to say bye bye.
Why is everybody mad at Kyle? Adrianne has never done anything to Kyle or Kim, so why wouldn’t she defend Adrianne. Why should Kyle dislike Adrianne because Lisa does. Lisa was supportive of Brandi last season when Kyle and Kim were mad at her. Brandi brought most of this on herself, for not thinking before she speakes. Brandi is the main one that hits below the belt and then claims she’s telling the truth. Then she wants others to be sensitive to her.
Kim started the drama with Brandy plain and simple . Kim asked for what she got and more. Kim and Kyle treated Brandi horrible, Kim even took her crutches so she could not leave. Where does this get lost in the picture. Kim clearly was on drugs of some sort, we did not need Brandi to point that out. Anyone with ears and eyes knew Kim was on more than alchohol last year. Brandi is a little rough around the edges but she did not start the trouble. Kyle was making fun of Brandi and bad mouthing her the first time she laid eyes on her. Thank God there were cameras because they told Lisa and everyone else a total different story. Yet, it is always Brandi that gets blamed. Adrienne put out bad stuff in the media about Brandi when Brandi would not play her game and go after Lisa, yet once again Brandi is blamed when someone else started it. Brandi is right she does not start it, she comes back at ya and wins.Most of these women are jealous of her because she is drop dead beautiful. Brandi did not hurt Kim , Kim’s drug abuse hurt Kim. Kyle pretends to stay out of everything because she got caught in everything but behind the camera she tells Faye all the stuff becasue she knows Faye is an idiot.
Amen to that!
Katrina, I agree with you. The hatred at RT at Kyle and Kim is just too much for this fan. Brandi is a rich btch monger….notice how everyone she gravitates to seem to be the women of extreme wealth…..Yolonda, Lisa and at one time Adrianna..which backfired on Adrianne. To Lisa, Brandi is another Cedric. I don’t ever and I mean ever want or need a friend that would my personal laundry on national tv, just because……. I mean, karma is definately gonna bite her one day and I hope its soon.
Gilda and Lori,
I’ve been trying to break up with Andy Cohen for awhile. http://s17948.p858.sites.pressdns.com/2012/01/18/a-love-letter-to-andy-cohen/
He’s making it easier lately, no, because he is not cooperating at all. I have officially hung up my Mazel baseball cap.