Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you've had a good week. I am still on the high of BravoCon two weeks out. I just

I keep looking back at the photos and the videos and I just had such a great time and it's made

watching these shows even more enjoyable. I have such a fantastic guest on this week. Her name is Donna Bowling.

She hosts the daily podcast Monday through Friday, Daily Dose of Donna. She's so fun and we get into

all of the Housewives franchises that are on right now except Miami. So this week on Miami, we see Gertie tell Larsa at the

sit-down lunch that they had, that she had breast cancer. And Larsa's immediate reaction is like,

how do you know? Well, how do you know? Well, how do you know? I just like,

oh, it's so offensive and frustrating and probably the last thing someone who was just diagnosed

with breast cancer wants to answer. She's like, yeah, I went to the doctor. I had multiple scans.

I had multiple biopsies. Like, what else do you want for me? And then Gertie tells like, yeah, I went to the doctor. I had multiple scans. I had multiple biopsies.

Like, what else do you want for me? And then Gertie tells Larsa, you know, I'm processing this.

I want to tell all the other women. I haven't told everyone yet, please keep this between us.

And she even says, I want to make it clear. And only a few hours later, Larsa tells a lot of the other women who didn't know

already that Gertie has breast cancer.

And it's just I, Larsa, Larsa, Larsa.

Like there is some sort of chip missing in her.

And I think she was lovely when I met her at BravoCon, but watching this.

And then also watching the Miami panel at BravoCon where she was asked after looking

and knowing everything that you know now, do you understand why Gertie was behaving

the way she was behaving? And Larsa said, I'm still confused. Oh my God. Larsa, what

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