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'Real Housewives NY' Kelly Bensimon: Breakdown or breakthrough?
In the last two episodes of "The Real Housewives of New York City," viewers watched as former model Kelly Bensimon seemed to unravel on Ramona Singer's "non-bachelorette" trip to the Virgin Islands.When The Dish Rag spoke to Kelly's cast mate Bethenny Frankel this week, she described Kelly as an "emotionally unstable person."
Kelly recently spoke to New York Magazine and expressed no regret over her strange behavior.
"Some people are like, 'You had a breakdown,' and I'm like, no, I had a breakthrough," Kelly says. "I just let go, I was crying, just, like, stop harassing."
In the interview, she goes on to say that she was trapped on the island with women who hate her, constantly ridicule her and who are trying to get her off the show. And basically, she finally blew up.
Zap2it readers have expressed their own assessments of what they watched.
Most comments landed in one of three categories:
Kelly has a mental disorder:
Michelle: "I am watching the May 20th episode, and I'm convinced that there is definitely something cognitively off with Kelly! Wowwee!"
LRP: "I truly believe Kelly has borderline personality disorder. It showed last season and is really coming out this season, especially this last episode. She needs to be admitted and given meds. Seriously."
Kelly is on drugs:
Anonymous: "I have chest pains from watching the last episode. It was very sad to see Kelly have a breakdown like that on TV... She looked and acted totally insane. It was like she was on meth or something, not eating protein or food, but then going for candy and only have coffee for breakfast. She is coo-coo!"
Shay: "I don't think Kelly has a psychological problem. I think she has an alcohol and/or drug problem. Go to rehab...get help. Very sad."
Kelly just sucks:
Michelle: "Kelly is just an uneducated, ex-model, with no class. It was so apparent at that dinner party. The other ladies are so far out of her league. She's not intelligent enough to make dinner conversation so, she gets bored, then gets diarrhea of the mouth. She doesn't need help or meds...she needs an education!!"
Anonymous: Wow, I personally think she is not crazy!! How is this for an idea? She is a master at manipulation. She is a mean, spiteful, jealous, self-centered monster.... She knew the entire time what she was doing. I watched the episode three times and she said, "I really don't like you." She wanted to come on the trip and create hell because she is really just toxic!
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I just watched the latest episode and I am convinced that Kelly has a mental health issue. Not that there is anything wrong with that but she does need to talk to a professional. Although, to some extent I think it's staged. She did say she learned from her PR 101 class that there is no such thing as bad press. She should have been careful what she wished for. No one wants this kind of press, unless it feeds whatever psychosis she already has.
I think that maybe Kelly act like this when she has been drinking - had she been drinking? Or maybe she had done some drugs. I sincerely think she has some sort of mental problem and she enhances it with the drugs/alcohol.
She's just not very smart. That, combined with a huge ego can be a bad come. Kelly, case in point.
This show appears to be too much for Kelly. She's clearly not used to the cattiness & it's caused her to completely lose it.
Kelly in my unprofessional opinion has NPD narcisistic personality disorder-she needs to be the center of attention or she gets bored-other peoples emotions bother her-couple that with not being very bright- she doesn't appear to be(although some NPD's are very intelligent-their reasoning is so off they sound very stupid) add a little drugs and alcohol and you have......Kelly
Classic METH/Stimulant abuse behavior. Twitching/ facial contortions/non-sensical conversation ect...
Add that to a lack of mental constitution, coupled with a career that mandates being perfection and BOOM. Two items= Intervention & get those 2 children to a healthy environment.
NUT JOB!!!! I think she's a self centered person who is dillusional. Join the real world Kelly.
She isn't crazy or mental. She's maintaining herself against all of them. I think she's had it with keeping mum and the dinner party was her coming out. The other ladies get to act however and say whatever they want and when kelly finally blows up she's percieved as being crazy. I've been following the show and she's calm and cool-- coming and leaving while the other older ones are loud mouths. I'd leave early too if I show up at events just to hear nothing but yapping from a bunch of powering tripping middle-ager's with loud awful voices. I think the other ladies are just hating on her because she doesn't look like a women in her forties instead appears a lot younger. Ha!Ha! Kelly's cool! Loud mouth drama queens are the worst haters.
Breakdown for sure!
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