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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a good week. Most of mine was spent in Aruba, which was just absolutely

amazing. I had the best time. I went snorkeling with turtles. It was so amazing. And then I came

back and it was cold and work got insane. And I think I may have made myself physically ill, which you will hear during my chat

with Terria, my guest. But yeah, we all need to do a little more self-care these days. And I think

getting back from Aruba and like jumping straight back into work and how crazy it was,

I think might have been a little bit too much for my nervous system to take on.

Well, last week I didn't chat about the Real Housewives of Orange County, but wanted to

share with you some of my thoughts. I have really enjoyed the reunion. I feel like we're getting

some more information out of everyone. It's really interesting to see Jen put some arguments together,

such as, you know, when she said to Tamara, there's a common thread that no one is speaking of,

meaning Tamara is a problem. And, you know, Tamara was

asked, I think, by Andy, you know, do you think you take things low? And she said, well,

everyone does. And Shannon piped up and was like, I think you take it lower. And I believe that's

accurate. It's interesting to watch Emily and Heather

kind of like buddy up to Tamara. I mean, I know that they're all friendly, but Tamara just was

behaving so poorly this season and I feel like she should be spending more time in the hot seat than Katie

and Jen. But I feel like Katie has had a lot of time in the hot seat, none of which had to do

with anything that we saw on this season. So that's hard to get into if it's something unrelated

to what we've been watching. What I am very interested in is her daughter, Kaylee, who,

I don't know, like she became sort of friendly with Tamara's daughter, but then wouldn't respond to

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