Obsessed and Repulsed by the Housewives

There's a new book that just came out called Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching. This thing has been getting a ridiculous amount of press, everywhere I turn I'm seeing something about it. I stumbled upon this article today that is an excerpt from the book and it is about my favorite of the reality trash: The Real Housewives of NY. The article is brilliant and I had to share it with my friends who partake in the cotton candy that is the Housewives series. Enjoy!

"If Jill can drop sixteen thousand dollars on a bag," beamed Kelly Bensimon, the newest housewife on Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City, "then I say, go for it!"

"Go for it" is excellent advice, especially from someone who designs owl jewelry and jogs in traffic. Bensimon was referring to her fellow housewife Jill Zarin's televised purchase of a garish green handbag. It really was, as the price tag showed, sixteen thousand dollars. Most people, even the obscenely rich, wouldn't go for such a thing so publicly in late 2008, when season two of the series was shot. But the Real Housewives will go for anything — parties, purchases, press lines, each other's jugular veins — as long as it means more of that precious commodity: attention.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/real-housewives-of-nyc-recap-041410#ixzz0l6rjXKWY

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