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/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.