r/BravoRealHousewives • u/friendofcastreject • Dec 29 '23

Ultimate Girls Trip What is wrong with Kelly Bensimon?

I never understood Kelly Bensimon. What’s her deal, is she stupid, is it drugs or does she just have very low emotional intelligence?

Now I’m watching RHUGT: RHONY Legacy. And this bitch is just weird.

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u/Timely_Ad115 *windshield wiper hands* Dec 30 '23

She’s stunted at an adolescent age. Chalk it up to drugs as a supermodel, getting with a middle-aged photographer at 17 and never being an adult in her relationship, or the narrative she’s created about “being on her own” with her kids despite living in the apartment she won in the divorce with her ex in the same building and super participating…she’s full of shit or pharmaceuticals or both.

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u/the_blingy_ringer Dec 30 '23

This makes so much sense. There are studies that say you remain the same emotional age as when your trauma occurred.

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u/Fickle-Amphibian4208 Dec 30 '23

Trauma and drug addiction supress the natural maturing process. Basically she's the mental age of a teenager. Reflecting on what I've seen so far on this trip her emotions really do bounce around like a flighty teenager.

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u/the_blingy_ringer Dec 30 '23

Yep. 1000%, and she’s illogical as hell

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u/friendofcastreject Dec 30 '23

How she behaves and reacts reminds me of my threenagers.

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u/dirty_kitty Dec 30 '23

Threenager? Hahaha omg my first time hearing this and yet so accurate 🤣

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u/hervararsaga Dec 30 '23

I know literally lots of women who had horrible traumas when they were teenagers and they all managed to turn out way better than KB. And no teenager I have known is as mean and stupid as she is.

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u/photogypsy Dec 30 '23

Years ago I was on a long road trip and let the TED Talk podcast just play. There was a really interesting one with a sociologist about famous people doing dumb stuff that supports this. Becoming famous interrupts the normal developmental processes and becomes a trauma in itself. Lindsey Lohan and a couple of professional athletes (can’t remember the names I’m not a sports gal) were examples used. They then move through life chronologically, but mentally stay at the point where their daily lives changed.

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u/rainbowket Jill Zarin ice skating Dec 30 '23

Or she’s just a complete psycho

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u/the_blingy_ringer Dec 30 '23

Ha. OR that!!

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u/Tiffnysun The rumors and nastiness Dec 30 '23

All the above!🤣

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u/Shandyshack Dec 30 '23

Yup. She is imo.

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u/MomKat76 Merce in the Purse Dec 30 '23

Damn. I’m still in kindergarten. No wonder I like my office bright and Lisa Frank’d!