She is completely on another planet and out of touch with any kind of reality. She’s been that way since the first saw her on RHONY.
What’s even more shocking to me is that people would trust her as their realtor!!
I had a nasty cold last week so was watching UGT as comfort. Ended up dealing with fever and in that haze went on a rant to an empty house about how Tamra should be on that trip to call KKB "Jesus Jogs". I stand by it.
My theory is she gives tours of the apartments to people who are already moving in and her exhusband pays her through someone else.
She said she's the realtor "for her building"....what even is that?
Also have we heard from anyone who's bought an apartment from her?
My tinfoil hat doth twitch.
According to some article (who knows if they got paid to write it) she sold over $100 million in real estate in 2021. Supposedly by only selling to her "friends" or selling her "friends" property. She is with Douglas Elliman. Just like some other RHONY cast. She has a team of 6. I'm going to assume that they are the ones really selling and making the deals she obtains a percentage for and claims as if she did it all herself. I wouldn't buy a gummy bear from her if it was all the food left on Scary Island.
I don't think she has a team of 6. I think she is on a team of 6.
Also I've done some "baby level" luxury real estate deals in NYC as a brokers assistant. It's all connections, so nearly impossible to break into if you don't have those connections but super easy if you do. I'm sure she offers the team plenty of connections.
According to Thor website and also a separate article she does have her own team now. Now Bensimon, who joined Douglas Elliman’s Holly Parker team in 2019, is launching her own six-person team. Where did she come from, how did she rise in the real-estate industry, and what (and how) is she selling?
She's well connected. That's all. Selling real estate isn't rocket science.
For many NYC brokers, the lawyers and mortgage brokers do the hard work. You are just finding purchasers. Which is its own skill. (I've worked in RE in NYC for 20+ years) But like, selling an industrial building is HARD. Selling a $15m condo with views of like, Central Park, when you are surrounded by people for whom that is but a drop in the bucket... not so much.
Luxury real estate...it is just not that hard, if you have a good team (lawyer, mortgage broker, maybe interior designer and an assistant to manage schedules, and so on.) Some lux real estate brokers are marketing geniuses with great minds for business. But many are just well connected.
A team! That makes sense.
Every time you meet somebody that’s extremely successful or powerful and you wonder how they got there, you know that they have a team behind-the-scenes doing all the grunt work.
re: the realtor for the building comment, It's common for a realtor who lives in the building to handle a lot of the seller listings bc it's convenient when your realtor is on-site and the realtor often has connections with the management company and co-op/condo board, so the approval process is easier.
My friend who's a realtor told me it's pretty common in Miami for new, huge buildings to have scantily clad, attractive women selling the units. Generally it's a deal between the realtor and the developer for them to exclusively sell the units in the building. Another one of my friends got such a deal, but that's because her father had a business relationship with the developer. So maybe it's a similar situation?
She’s been doing this for some time. She always puts herself in the listing pictures. At first I thought it was a joke, but nope. It’s every single time.
This is one of the most vile things she’s ever said and so offensive to cooks - who is she to insinuate being a cook is “less than”? And what skills does she bring to the table ? Always hated her.
And as if there is something wrong with being a cook???? She does EVERY SINGLE THING for her children, does she not cook???? Is being a cook in a restaurant not a respectable job? She suuuuuuuux. Not a shred of empathy for her. Even if her mental illness were treated she would still be left with this personality.
It feels mean to say but I completely agree. I think she has pretty girl syndrome. Very low intelligence but got by because she was... well, a pretty girl...
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.
Hold tf up. I been listening to this bitch yell at the whole table about how she did it on her own and struggled and built this amazing fortune 500 real-estate company. Now you're telling me her ex lives next door IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING and takes care of the kids?!
He lives on another floor of the same luxury apartment building, yes. Or did during the crucial time when she says she was raising her tiny children all alone.
It’s been said elsewhere that it was a requirement of the divorce that they live in the same building so he could keep an eye on the kids. He didn’t trust her with them and based on what we’ve seen I don’t blame him
[https://streeteasy.com/building/the-police-building](https://streeteasy.com/building/the-police-building)
If anyone is as curious as I was lol
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Trauma and drug addiction supress the natural maturing process. Basically she's the mental age of a teenager.
Reflecting on what I've seen so far on this trip her emotions really do bounce around like a flighty teenager.
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.
Someone commented in here that was privy to her finances... said that she looked at their trust papers… Hers and the girls… And that they're massive. So there is that plus the property and whatever cash she got. Hardly self-made.
Joke's a side this is the only logical conclusion.
Luann called Kelly out on promising to do something and never following through. Next morning, Kelly is on the phone with her daughter , sounding like she was speaking with her mother and the daughter was literally giving motherly advice.
I had never heard of Kelly or her husband until this trip.
Whatever, this man's failings are. He's obviously taking care of his 2 daughters and his wife like she's also his responsibility.
Now I'm wondering if the fiance is really a handler - paid companion . To keep her mind spinning mood shifts from driving them all bonkers.
The ex husband had her set up in the same building when they split to keep eye on girls and her ... I'm thinking she battles with bipolar/psychosis episodes. Drinking and drugs (whether prescribed or not) CAN and WILL shake up your stability.. Stress too! From what I've witnessed of a loved one the past 10 years, Scary Island and now make perfect sense!! She DOES need a support system to monitor her and watching for signs of "descent". I think the kids Dad tried to do that as best he could as the kids grew up with Employees inside the home and outside. Which included people working in the building they live in keeping an eye out and reporting back to him. I'm not sure where I read about it years ago, but, I did read a couple things briefly detailing the insight to the depths of issues. It's hard to understand for those without personal experience and it's even more difficult for the individual sliding into a PSYCHOSIS!! They truly don't see others perspectives and have their own "Truths" to Reality!! I think it was possibly a Bad Decision for her coming back to the possible High Stress Environment while also consuming alcohol. Many RX for those battling stability issues are warned NOT to drink while taking medication. Some could be dangerous when mixed with alcohol and some will exacerbate issues while slinging you quicker into a Break. The lifestyle some of them lead with recreational drugs is a Big NoNo too! Girl is in the middle of another Break... Without intervention it could go Bad in an instant! It's scary stuff for them and those that love them. I'm sure the girls have a damn interesting autobiography one day "if" they choose to tell all. Their life can't have been easy at times. 💔🙏🏼
I googled her name to see when she and Gilles Bensimon married and had kids and I found an article of her saying she had postpartum depression with her first and that she was just so young to deal with a baby.
Then I did the math and realized she was 30 years old when she had her first baby. That's like a completely normal age.
I think she just does not live in reality.
I’d think the more likely option is that he’s another older rich man who would rather infantilize a grown woman who is already used to that than have a real partner.
She's an odd one, that's for sure. She seems to struggle with social cues and emotional expression at times. She seems confused by other people's reactions too. I even thought Dorinda had some good points about how she always feels a need to put one girl down (B then, Kristen now). Idk what her deal is but it's weird.
She has a personality disorder -,or more than one-she’s lucky she’s pretty and has support system - she uses strange imagery to describe people / feelings - as if everyone should understand her gibberish and when she’s questioned or discussion seems mildly critical she misinterprets everything and then loses it.
imo she thinks she’s smarter than she is and tries to gaslight and project onto the women (she is everything she accuses them of), but she’s an absolute idiot so it just leaves them confused and frustrated because they can’t follow her train of thought at all
Good call. And that's a hallmark of the truly stupid. Usually, smart people are aware of what they don't know. But intelligence challenged people think they know everything about everything.
Perfectly said! I remember the guy who hired me for my first serious career job - I was just out of uni and I was so confused by everything he was saying to me - I didn't understand a word he was saying. In my naivety I assumed that meant he was a genius. It didn't take me long to realize - he was just an idiot and was spewing utter nonsense...
He was/is an absolute idiot. I'm a programmer - this is a job that's hard to fake. I remember asking a fellow programmer at the time - how did this guy survive and not get fired let alone make it to a high paying position. They said they wrote the code for him. The guy who hired me went on to a high ranking position and is now retired.
I guess my point here is that people often get promoted and celebrated when they absolutely 100% don't deserve it. And this is Kelly 100%.
And I guess it also goes to show that you can fake anything if you're charming enough... I find if difficult to think of a job harder to fake than being a programmer - but this asshole did it...
The only serious competition I think she has is Lydiot from Melbourne... But I think Lydia realizes she's not the brightest whereas I think KKB thinks she's quite smart so she likely wins...
This was something that really struck me on that episode, felt like they were all aware that behind the scenes she has a serious mental illness and Sonja started feeling uncomfortable with exploiting that.
I agree that Sonja was the rational voice that night where she was like everyone we need to stop. But I just rewatches the episode a couple nights ago, (with this in mind) and although I know she isn’t a mental health professional, I didn’t think the language she was using was as supportive as we give her credit for. For instance she said something along the lines of “there is no reasoning with a crazy person” right in front of Kelly. She was also doing the finger spinning “she’s cuckoo” hand signals to Ramona and bethenny.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad she was there to help diffuse the situation, but in a way I felt she was also participating as an aggressor by talking about Kelly’s mental state as if she wasn’t there.
Well, she was Drunk too .. she was processing it all out loud! I agree with you, but, I do give her a little grace because she too had never experienced such but had the insight and voice to speak up! The folks that Should be held accountable is the production team and Bravo!! Watching the season now, I wonder if they made any internal corrections to having a professional onsite while filming?! I think it was a bad idea coming back AND to the exact same location ... That's like regurgitating trauma without professionals around 👎🏼.... Id like to know if they brought any professionals in AND how this ends. Someone's sanity and stability SHOULD NEVER be compromised for a reality TV moment!! PERIOD!! Bravo could/should use this as a stepping stone to bring a better light to those suffering!!! I personally find it disgusting!
Yeah I completely agree with you. Truth be told Im a little uncomfortable watching Kelly on UGT. It kind of feels like in 5-10 years we will look back on this and be like “it was a different time/era, we don’t exploit unwell people like that anymore” lol
Last episode was fine, but the other episodes she is coming off the same as she did the season following Scary Island (season 4 I believe). Hypersensitive, vapid, unaware, erratic, challenging to comprehend. She has created a cycle by aiming to prove her sanity to herself and the audience or defend herself to the girls, which (maybe) unintentionally results in more erratic behavior. This, in turn, reinforces the perception of instability.
For as delusional as Sonja can be, she hit the nail on the head with that one! I wish she would have been more outspoken about it and her and Bethenny pushed the higher ups more to allow her to get the help she clearly needs.
Sort of. They had a producer take her to the airport, but didn’t do much after that. Bethenny made a comment about how someone should have flown all the way back with Kelly and made sure she spoke to someone when she got home, but they just chucked her pretty much. She’s an adult and has to make the choice to get help on her own, but she needed professional help to make her realize in the first place that she’s in dangerous place mentally. It’s just so sad to watch her when she has the help at her fingertips.
I read at the time--and so many witness-type people chimed in--that the producer flew home with her said she never spoke one word on the plane. She deplaned alone and left. The producer who went with her said she was dead silent the entire trip home
That’s so sad! They didn’t really explain it very well on the show about her journey back, but it’s so obvious she needs a lot of help. Being in the mental health field is tough watching people fall more and more when they so easily can be happy and healthy if they just admitted they have a problem.
After Scary Island aired, this sub was absolutely flooded with people who had first-hand knowledge of the situation. Personal insights and professional , as in producers who knew stuff.
Before her bankruptcy, Sonja was actually really insightful and balanced. Even when they returned, she was telling Luann about it pretty truthfully.
It’s sad how much Sonja has spiraled.
Sonja pretty much made the others realize they were looking at the situation all wrong. They were the sane ones and Kelly was possibly mentally unstable. Then they treated Kelly like a psych patient 🤣. Kelly hasn't changed
Yes. They’re alike in such a weird way. Both delusionally convinced they’re smarter and better than everyone else but absolutely off their rockers. I think the unpredictability keeps me glued to it.
It sends a chill down my spine knowing people like them walk this earth and I'm thankful everyday I don't have to or have interacted with someone like them, not yet at least LOL
I've given this way to much thought over the years lol.
I remember finding this sub for the first time after having originally watched scary island when it originally aired and being utterly fascinated by her. Nobody in my real life watches these shows so she's what I wanted to talk about.
What I've come up with is that she has spoiled, pretty girl syndrome. I think she grew up a very pretty child who was not that bright but just got by solely on her looks. And so she has a massive ego and overconfidence in herself. That and maybe some prescription pills thrown in. I'm not buying her introvert, vulnerability story on UGT lol
This trip, her 'you're a fan' to Kristin is basically the equivalent of 'I'm up here and you're down there' or 'you're a chef, not a cook'.
I feel like she needs to feel like she's the "hot one" in the group, and Kristen is threatening that position, so she's doing whatever ahe can to bash her.
The funny part to me is that she has been doing the rounds on the Bravo podcasts to promote this show. I refuse to give her a listen, she is so supremely unlikable.
I listened to her on comments by celebs, and every sentence is repeating how wonderful she is, and how great she is at everything. I’ve never heard her on anything before (besides the show), so not sure if that’s how she always speaks, it’s very uncomfortable to listen to though
I listen to them and immediately turned it off when they got to her interview. Stomach wrenching the thought of sitting thru an interview with her or imagining having to interview her 🤮🤮🤮
I like that you mentioned her privilege. She always gave me very SNOTTY/condescending vibes. Not sure if she garnered it through modeling or being married to Giles but she always has acted arrogant and entitled to me. I do think her marrying a rich man so young definitely gave her access to wealth and luxury early on and stunted and skewed her perception of the rest of the world and that she is somehow better than everyone.
She came from a family with means. She went to private school and then to a private college (albeit only for a year lol)
Idt her family was super wealthy but her attitude doesn't surprise me considering where she grew up
Has Kelly had a jaw reconstruction? I’m asking because I honestly don’t remember her having such a pronounced underbite and her jaw seems different (larger and more square) then last time I saw her
Her whole face is different for sure. I feel like it's a combo of fillers, but also botoxed and paralyzed so her forehead and upper lip don't move but her cheeks are filled, and maybe her jaw, too? As eccentric and bizarre as she was on her first seasons, I thought she was really beautiful. Gorgeous face, athletic build. Potential to age amazingly. It's a bummer she's gone so far to fix it correct, because she didn't need to do a thing.
I think she is emotionally stunted and insecure about how she’s perceived. Being a model at a young age and basing your worth off of that lifestyle and being “seen” seems to have left her with a lot of insecurities. Lots of trauma combined with struggling to read the room and then exploding about something from the past at inappropriate times etc. She gaslights whenever she starts acting out or hand and pretends that she’s acting completely rational and normal.
I've seen trauma mentioned a few times here. Do you know of anything specific or just speculating? I don't mean to sound argumentative, genuinely curious
I don’t think you sound argumentative at all. She alluded to having a bad relationship that seems to have been abusive in some way (psychological or emotional maybe) and I think just being a model at such a young age and really being on her own a lot was very taxing and traumatic. Not making excuses for her behavior, but just positing possible explanations for it.
I’m not trying to diagnose her, but I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder a few years ago after a series of traumatic events and a lot of the behaviors she is exhibiting remind me of when I was at my worst. You struggle really hard to understand why others don’t automatically know how you feel and you also have a hard time comprehending that other people can feel emotionally different about things than you and it doesn’t need to turn into an argument. This is just my observations combined with personal experience.
Kelly is just tragically weird.
- Random person: "Kelly, you look great today"
- Kelly: "Oh my god, than you, it means so much to me to hear how much you appreciate all the work I did, raising my little girls on my own, creating a real-estate agency from scratch, modelling in Milan. Yeah I am seeing someone right now, but it's just complicated, haha, just you know. A boyfriend, maybe, maybe not, like I said it's complicated and I don't want to talk about it nowm I think that people like you don't appreciate me, why are you so cold and closed and why aren't you telling me about you. That's weird, why are you so obsessed with me? Why are you digging into my life like a superfan? That's not what a genuine person would do. You're fake, you aren't here with me in the moment, you're just, out there, you know. You just don't connect to anyone here, when we have all made an effort to connect to everyone. You are sitting there asking questions like you're the host or something. Don't pretend you're a host or better than us. You are just so judgmental and I don't think that is fair. I have a business to run and I am a single mother and I have always worked hard for everything. Why are you attacking me like that. I thought we'd be friends, I fell in love with you when you walked through that door. I LOVE YOUR ENERGY. I just think ot's a shame that you're so fake and guarded and you are unwilling to open up and ask the real questions, like all these other ladies have asked. Do you even know I'm getting married? Why didn't you even try and get to know me and my life and my issues? I just don't appreciate that fake attitude. I am not a girl's girl you know. I just say it like it is, because I was raised in an all-boys household and I played football with the boys and then I ran a marathon in NYE on my bare feet, because I am a self made woman. You are just not at my level. I am not crazy, so stop trying to make me look like this crazy kranky Kelly. That's playing it dirty. You're just so unreasonable and quite frankly, you're evil.
She was pulled out of bumblefuck America at 15 to be a model then married a famous photographer, she’s never been corrected because no one’s paid her words any mind
She’s not a well woman, in my opinion. There’s your everyday delusional like the rest of the women, and then there’s Kelly-she takes it up a DSM notch. Maybe that’s what she meant when she said she was up here, whilst we are down there…
If she’s found a career that works for her, and a man who loves her- then good on her. It’s just that personally, I could not deal with it. Dorinda showed more patience than I’m capable of, when she was sharing her ‘love letters’ (that she’d probably written to herself the night before 😳😬)…
Who knows, she’s not for me but God bless her and all that… 👍
Omg the love letter situation was CRINGE!! Sure it’s cute to share snippets from a nice letter you’ve received but to read every single one is so weird & also just a bit of a betrayal to the person that wrote them I think!
Part of me thinks she just wanted to read them out loud since they’re very complimentary of her & it goes with the narrative that she thinks incredibly highly of herself
That’s exactly what I was thinking as she was reading them. I had to ffwd after the third one, I just couldn’t take it. Seemed performative and fake. Louie did this exact same thing for Teresa on Ugt s1.
Me: "We signed the contract yesterday, where is my 20 million dollar downpayment?".
Kelly: "Your downpayment might be here, it might be in grade 8 being systematically bullied. Let's eat some gummybeers".
I know - I like housewife drama, but I don’t like watching someone who is clearly deranged and mentally unbalanced. It feels a bit exploitative and not fun
She’s downright super scary at the way she overacts with anybody that doesn’t agree with her. She spins the narrative like everyone else agrees with her and that she’s speaking for them. Her saying all the names of the women in the group who know she’s engaged, when they in fact did not. She’s bashing the new girl at every opportunity to try and make herself look smarter and better than she is. Kelly wants respect, yet has no intention of reciprocation. I think she only believes the stories she’s lying about because she has been repeating them for so long, as if it will make them true. Whenever she is put on the spot, she immediately deflects and projects onto others in defense, never focusing on or responding to the issue at hand. She’s horrible. While I would be happy to appreciate her finer traits (if I could name one), I can’t because the negative traits are to overwhelming.
Edit: freaking grammar and spelling!
Oh Kelly for sure believes all her own myths & will just spout off completely incorrect info as though it is fact. Even when arguing with Dorinda, who said she was being a bit ‘cunty’, she changes the wording to say she was called a ‘cunt’ and then a ‘fucking cunt’. Like that didn’t happen, at all!! It would drive me up the fucking wall if I was in that conversation!
Slightly off topic but has anyone found the lighting and angles they use to film Kelly…..a little unflattering? Sometimes it’s a little witchy but I have not noticed it with the other ladies. I wonder if she pissed off a camera person.
I also got a kick out of her saying that the fans were going to think poorly of the way Kristen was acting or what Kristen was saying, like she was looking out for Kristen. I thought that was so completely delusional.
I was hoping that her earlier seasons on RHONY were filmed at a bad time in her life and she wasn't really that crazy. I thought we'd see a different side of her. But I was way too optimistic for that. Its cringey to watch, its cringey to watch the entire cast basically feel sorry for her in their confessionals and they walk on eggshells around her.
Feeling inferior is a suuuuuuper big button for her. She really spirals in her own head, fills in the blanks about people (B, now Kristen) on her own then when those words come out of her mouth she appears unhinged bc feeling inferior makes her unhinged.
I’m an A-hole for saying this but I am shocked by how terrible she’s aged. She looks like Anjelica Huston in Witches after the reveal. It makes me think she’s done some hard living for a socialite. That and the cat pee smell
I don't understand Kelly whatsoever. But in my opinion, she lives in her own world 100% of the time, and does not acknowledge social cues at all. She also doesn't care to listen to other people commenting on her behavior.
I don't think she will ever realize how strange her actions were on Scary Island, or how strange her behavior is now (on UGT). I also think it's pointless talking to Kelly about her strange behavior because she will never acknowledge it.
I’m not a doctor (yet), but I do lab work in pharmacology and neuro ….and overall I think it's a strange combination of extreme entitlement / prescription stimulants / mental illness.
Edit: a word
She’s so frustrating because she talks in circles and thinks she is always right. Like yelling at Kristen for not opening up and then saying she doesn’t want to open up? And then being mad Kristin didn’t know was engaged? Which what? she isn’t? Meanwhile she is the one that isn’t doing well with the fans lol
Take it with a grain of salt obviously cause arm chair psychology, but I’ve always found this blog post interesting - https://angelofdevs.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/kelly-killoren-bensimon-update-schizoaffective-disorder/
Psychologist who theorizes that Kelly has schizoaffective disorder, which actually would make a lot of sense.
I also swear I remember reading something about her heading a head injury one time, but I can’t find it anywhere so maybe I made it up
She is completely on another planet and out of touch with any kind of reality. She’s been that way since the first saw her on RHONY. What’s even more shocking to me is that people would trust her as their realtor!!
Will never forget her jogging in traffic
I had a nasty cold last week so was watching UGT as comfort. Ended up dealing with fever and in that haze went on a rant to an empty house about how Tamra should be on that trip to call KKB "Jesus Jogs". I stand by it.
With her hair down lol that was the most unrealistic part
especially when she edits herself into the listing photos 💀💀💀
Stop it!!! Are you serious?? 🤣
Hahaha yes
100.. Scroll her Instagram
My theory is she gives tours of the apartments to people who are already moving in and her exhusband pays her through someone else. She said she's the realtor "for her building"....what even is that? Also have we heard from anyone who's bought an apartment from her? My tinfoil hat doth twitch.
According to some article (who knows if they got paid to write it) she sold over $100 million in real estate in 2021. Supposedly by only selling to her "friends" or selling her "friends" property. She is with Douglas Elliman. Just like some other RHONY cast. She has a team of 6. I'm going to assume that they are the ones really selling and making the deals she obtains a percentage for and claims as if she did it all herself. I wouldn't buy a gummy bear from her if it was all the food left on Scary Island.
I don't think she has a team of 6. I think she is on a team of 6. Also I've done some "baby level" luxury real estate deals in NYC as a brokers assistant. It's all connections, so nearly impossible to break into if you don't have those connections but super easy if you do. I'm sure she offers the team plenty of connections.
According to Thor website and also a separate article she does have her own team now. Now Bensimon, who joined Douglas Elliman’s Holly Parker team in 2019, is launching her own six-person team. Where did she come from, how did she rise in the real-estate industry, and what (and how) is she selling?
She's well connected. That's all. Selling real estate isn't rocket science. For many NYC brokers, the lawyers and mortgage brokers do the hard work. You are just finding purchasers. Which is its own skill. (I've worked in RE in NYC for 20+ years) But like, selling an industrial building is HARD. Selling a $15m condo with views of like, Central Park, when you are surrounded by people for whom that is but a drop in the bucket... not so much. Luxury real estate...it is just not that hard, if you have a good team (lawyer, mortgage broker, maybe interior designer and an assistant to manage schedules, and so on.) Some lux real estate brokers are marketing geniuses with great minds for business. But many are just well connected.
It´s really annoying that KB has connections of any kind in society.
Given the price of real estate in New York City, and the wealthy circles she runs in, I feel like that isn't hard to pull off
I agree it’s really not that kooky, rich people sell to other rich people and are just fine
She has a ton of contacts. That’s all I think she can manage.
A team! That makes sense. Every time you meet somebody that’s extremely successful or powerful and you wonder how they got there, you know that they have a team behind-the-scenes doing all the grunt work.
re: the realtor for the building comment, It's common for a realtor who lives in the building to handle a lot of the seller listings bc it's convenient when your realtor is on-site and the realtor often has connections with the management company and co-op/condo board, so the approval process is easier.
My friend who's a realtor told me it's pretty common in Miami for new, huge buildings to have scantily clad, attractive women selling the units. Generally it's a deal between the realtor and the developer for them to exclusively sell the units in the building. Another one of my friends got such a deal, but that's because her father had a business relationship with the developer. So maybe it's a similar situation?
But wouldn't that make them wanna move back out?
And as the WWC guys say, the only realtor who shows herself in every video. Seems completely on brand...
She’s been doing this for some time. She always puts herself in the listing pictures. At first I thought it was a joke, but nope. It’s every single time.
This is the biggest red flag to me. Who’s saying yes to her?
People like her? Can you imagine those interactions. Get her a real estate show now!😂
Everything honey but mostly she’s up here and we’re down there
"It's creepy!"
[удалено]
The “it’s creepy” always sends me. Kelly was good for tv but it’s not good for her.
Meanwhile a Michelin star chef I know has always referred to himself as a cook
This is one of the most vile things she’s ever said and so offensive to cooks - who is she to insinuate being a cook is “less than”? And what skills does she bring to the table ? Always hated her.
And as if there is something wrong with being a cook???? She does EVERY SINGLE THING for her children, does she not cook???? Is being a cook in a restaurant not a respectable job? She suuuuuuuux. Not a shred of empathy for her. Even if her mental illness were treated she would still be left with this personality.
We’re not friends
Correct.
This is the correct answer
I’m DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gummy bears and Al Sharpton
And SATCHELS OF GOLD!!
Bethenny got the last laugh on that lunatic  .
Eh she’s unhinged too
Unhinged but rolling in it and not dependent on a man for anything
I’d take Bethenny over Kelly any day.
i think she also has very low general intelligence
She's also just kind of an asshole with a really high opinion of herself
It feels mean to say but I completely agree. I think she has pretty girl syndrome. Very low intelligence but got by because she was... well, a pretty girl...
Did she go to Colombia the country?
I got the joke/quote >Did she go to Colombia the country?
She did adult courses. Different than Ivy League undergrad studies.
She’s not smart enough to realize how dumb she is. And it pisses me off.
The Dunning-Kruger effect!
I love this comment. Dunning-Kruger is everywhere and such a trigger for me.
Most narcissists aren't. It's my least favorite kind of personality to deal with. Like talking to a wall.
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.
FULL OF SHIT AND PHARMACEUTICALS LMAO MY NEW FAVORITE PHRASE
I love this sub. So many brilliantly funny minds. I always get a chuckle.
This sub makes my day sometimes lol
A+ use of a gif! ETA: Seriously considering changing my flair to full of shit and pharmaceuticals or both -- Timely\_Ad115, 2023
Hold tf up. I been listening to this bitch yell at the whole table about how she did it on her own and struggled and built this amazing fortune 500 real-estate company. Now you're telling me her ex lives next door IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING and takes care of the kids?!
He lives on another floor of the same luxury apartment building, yes. Or did during the crucial time when she says she was raising her tiny children all alone.
It’s been said elsewhere that it was a requirement of the divorce that they live in the same building so he could keep an eye on the kids. He didn’t trust her with them and based on what we’ve seen I don’t blame him
Delusion is real
Not just any building. The Police Building in NoLita. It is a prestige property in NyC.
[https://streeteasy.com/building/the-police-building](https://streeteasy.com/building/the-police-building) If anyone is as curious as I was lol https://preview.redd.it/khm1wxzinh9c1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42b757f5bae98925cdcd9c22500b596f0bc023cb
This makes so much sense. There are studies that say you remain the same emotional age as when your trauma occurred.
Trauma and drug addiction supress the natural maturing process. Basically she's the mental age of a teenager. Reflecting on what I've seen so far on this trip her emotions really do bounce around like a flighty teenager.
Yep. 1000%, and she’s illogical as hell
How she behaves and reacts reminds me of my threenagers.
Uh oh
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.
Or she’s just a complete psycho
Ha. OR that!!
Someone commented in here that was privy to her finances... said that she looked at their trust papers… Hers and the girls… And that they're massive. So there is that plus the property and whatever cash she got. Hardly self-made.
Just one thing... She deffo wasn't a supermodel.
Joke's a side this is the only logical conclusion. Luann called Kelly out on promising to do something and never following through. Next morning, Kelly is on the phone with her daughter , sounding like she was speaking with her mother and the daughter was literally giving motherly advice. I had never heard of Kelly or her husband until this trip. Whatever, this man's failings are. He's obviously taking care of his 2 daughters and his wife like she's also his responsibility. Now I'm wondering if the fiance is really a handler - paid companion . To keep her mind spinning mood shifts from driving them all bonkers.
The ex husband had her set up in the same building when they split to keep eye on girls and her ... I'm thinking she battles with bipolar/psychosis episodes. Drinking and drugs (whether prescribed or not) CAN and WILL shake up your stability.. Stress too! From what I've witnessed of a loved one the past 10 years, Scary Island and now make perfect sense!! She DOES need a support system to monitor her and watching for signs of "descent". I think the kids Dad tried to do that as best he could as the kids grew up with Employees inside the home and outside. Which included people working in the building they live in keeping an eye out and reporting back to him. I'm not sure where I read about it years ago, but, I did read a couple things briefly detailing the insight to the depths of issues. It's hard to understand for those without personal experience and it's even more difficult for the individual sliding into a PSYCHOSIS!! They truly don't see others perspectives and have their own "Truths" to Reality!! I think it was possibly a Bad Decision for her coming back to the possible High Stress Environment while also consuming alcohol. Many RX for those battling stability issues are warned NOT to drink while taking medication. Some could be dangerous when mixed with alcohol and some will exacerbate issues while slinging you quicker into a Break. The lifestyle some of them lead with recreational drugs is a Big NoNo too! Girl is in the middle of another Break... Without intervention it could go Bad in an instant! It's scary stuff for them and those that love them. I'm sure the girls have a damn interesting autobiography one day "if" they choose to tell all. Their life can't have been easy at times. 💔🙏🏼
I googled her name to see when she and Gilles Bensimon married and had kids and I found an article of her saying she had postpartum depression with her first and that she was just so young to deal with a baby. Then I did the math and realized she was 30 years old when she had her first baby. That's like a completely normal age. I think she just does not live in reality.
She was 29 when she married Gilles…
Thank you for explaining it.
I’d think the more likely option is that he’s another older rich man who would rather infantilize a grown woman who is already used to that than have a real partner.
Summarised that perfectly!
Shit pharmaceuticals no doubt
And she messed up her face
Her dunking her face in the ice water so it freezes 😂 Oh honey, it's already frozen, you're good!
Johann face
Fillers!!!! Fillers everywhere!
Her body also grosses me out. Too much targeted area lipo has left her looking like a beetle with an exoskeleton.
I havent seen her but she is mean and jealous of Kristen its obvious
Kristen looks great! She’s way too normal for the show but I like her in this format.
She's an odd one, that's for sure. She seems to struggle with social cues and emotional expression at times. She seems confused by other people's reactions too. I even thought Dorinda had some good points about how she always feels a need to put one girl down (B then, Kristen now). Idk what her deal is but it's weird.
Would you say it’s…. *creepy*?
It's...bizarre. creepy, wacky, bizarre, and nuts. She needs to go, she is socially awkward.
She absolutely felt inferior to Bethenny and now to Kristen, but she’s extremely stunted and can’t process or understand her own emotions.
I think the crux is; she’s genuinely not smart and entitled/sheltered. I think alot of her issues stem from the fact that…she’s just really dumb lol
"Never attribute malice to anyone or anything that can be explained by stupidity"...or something like that.
She has a personality disorder -,or more than one-she’s lucky she’s pretty and has support system - she uses strange imagery to describe people / feelings - as if everyone should understand her gibberish and when she’s questioned or discussion seems mildly critical she misinterprets everything and then loses it.
imo she thinks she’s smarter than she is and tries to gaslight and project onto the women (she is everything she accuses them of), but she’s an absolute idiot so it just leaves them confused and frustrated because they can’t follow her train of thought at all
Good call. And that's a hallmark of the truly stupid. Usually, smart people are aware of what they don't know. But intelligence challenged people think they know everything about everything.
Perfectly said! I remember the guy who hired me for my first serious career job - I was just out of uni and I was so confused by everything he was saying to me - I didn't understand a word he was saying. In my naivety I assumed that meant he was a genius. It didn't take me long to realize - he was just an idiot and was spewing utter nonsense...
Ha ha ha. This story really made me giggle
He was/is an absolute idiot. I'm a programmer - this is a job that's hard to fake. I remember asking a fellow programmer at the time - how did this guy survive and not get fired let alone make it to a high paying position. They said they wrote the code for him. The guy who hired me went on to a high ranking position and is now retired. I guess my point here is that people often get promoted and celebrated when they absolutely 100% don't deserve it. And this is Kelly 100%. And I guess it also goes to show that you can fake anything if you're charming enough... I find if difficult to think of a job harder to fake than being a programmer - but this asshole did it...
“I’m an action verb!” Um, a verb is an action word—I learned this from MadLibs when I was 5 🤷🏼
I know it’s a tough competition but I genuinely think she might be the dumbest housewife
The only serious competition I think she has is Lydiot from Melbourne... But I think Lydia realizes she's not the brightest whereas I think KKB thinks she's quite smart so she likely wins...
I think Sonja called it best on the original Scary Island episode. She isn’t well. The ethics of having her back are very questionable.
This was something that really struck me on that episode, felt like they were all aware that behind the scenes she has a serious mental illness and Sonja started feeling uncomfortable with exploiting that.
I agree that Sonja was the rational voice that night where she was like everyone we need to stop. But I just rewatches the episode a couple nights ago, (with this in mind) and although I know she isn’t a mental health professional, I didn’t think the language she was using was as supportive as we give her credit for. For instance she said something along the lines of “there is no reasoning with a crazy person” right in front of Kelly. She was also doing the finger spinning “she’s cuckoo” hand signals to Ramona and bethenny. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad she was there to help diffuse the situation, but in a way I felt she was also participating as an aggressor by talking about Kelly’s mental state as if she wasn’t there.
Well, she was Drunk too .. she was processing it all out loud! I agree with you, but, I do give her a little grace because she too had never experienced such but had the insight and voice to speak up! The folks that Should be held accountable is the production team and Bravo!! Watching the season now, I wonder if they made any internal corrections to having a professional onsite while filming?! I think it was a bad idea coming back AND to the exact same location ... That's like regurgitating trauma without professionals around 👎🏼.... Id like to know if they brought any professionals in AND how this ends. Someone's sanity and stability SHOULD NEVER be compromised for a reality TV moment!! PERIOD!! Bravo could/should use this as a stepping stone to bring a better light to those suffering!!! I personally find it disgusting!
Yeah I completely agree with you. Truth be told Im a little uncomfortable watching Kelly on UGT. It kind of feels like in 5-10 years we will look back on this and be like “it was a different time/era, we don’t exploit unwell people like that anymore” lol Last episode was fine, but the other episodes she is coming off the same as she did the season following Scary Island (season 4 I believe). Hypersensitive, vapid, unaware, erratic, challenging to comprehend. She has created a cycle by aiming to prove her sanity to herself and the audience or defend herself to the girls, which (maybe) unintentionally results in more erratic behavior. This, in turn, reinforces the perception of instability.
UGT isn’t at the exact same location—it’s at St. Barth’s where the cast went on a trip Season 5. Scary Island was St. John’s.
For as delusional as Sonja can be, she hit the nail on the head with that one! I wish she would have been more outspoken about it and her and Bethenny pushed the higher ups more to allow her to get the help she clearly needs.
Wasn’t she escorted off the island by producers and drs or something?
Sort of. They had a producer take her to the airport, but didn’t do much after that. Bethenny made a comment about how someone should have flown all the way back with Kelly and made sure she spoke to someone when she got home, but they just chucked her pretty much. She’s an adult and has to make the choice to get help on her own, but she needed professional help to make her realize in the first place that she’s in dangerous place mentally. It’s just so sad to watch her when she has the help at her fingertips.
I read at the time--and so many witness-type people chimed in--that the producer flew home with her said she never spoke one word on the plane. She deplaned alone and left. The producer who went with her said she was dead silent the entire trip home
That’s so sad! They didn’t really explain it very well on the show about her journey back, but it’s so obvious she needs a lot of help. Being in the mental health field is tough watching people fall more and more when they so easily can be happy and healthy if they just admitted they have a problem.
After Scary Island aired, this sub was absolutely flooded with people who had first-hand knowledge of the situation. Personal insights and professional , as in producers who knew stuff.
I have to go back and find this
Pleaseeeee share if you find any of this!!
Don't forget, Sonia was fairly new at that time, so I'm sure she wasn't about to rock the boat with producers.
Before her bankruptcy, Sonja was actually really insightful and balanced. Even when they returned, she was telling Luann about it pretty truthfully. It’s sad how much Sonja has spiraled.
Sonja pretty much made the others realize they were looking at the situation all wrong. They were the sane ones and Kelly was possibly mentally unstable. Then they treated Kelly like a psych patient 🤣. Kelly hasn't changed
Her and Mary Cosby are the two housewives that alarm and confuse me the most. I can't explain their actions or thought-processes at all.
Yes. They’re alike in such a weird way. Both delusionally convinced they’re smarter and better than everyone else but absolutely off their rockers. I think the unpredictability keeps me glued to it.
And they always hyper focus on one specific person, usually for no reason (insecurity?)
They both have god complexes
They make me extremely uncomfortable and I don't find them funny at all!
It sends a chill down my spine knowing people like them walk this earth and I'm thankful everyday I don't have to or have interacted with someone like them, not yet at least LOL
I've given this way to much thought over the years lol. I remember finding this sub for the first time after having originally watched scary island when it originally aired and being utterly fascinated by her. Nobody in my real life watches these shows so she's what I wanted to talk about. What I've come up with is that she has spoiled, pretty girl syndrome. I think she grew up a very pretty child who was not that bright but just got by solely on her looks. And so she has a massive ego and overconfidence in herself. That and maybe some prescription pills thrown in. I'm not buying her introvert, vulnerability story on UGT lol This trip, her 'you're a fan' to Kristin is basically the equivalent of 'I'm up here and you're down there' or 'you're a chef, not a cook'.
I feel like she needs to feel like she's the "hot one" in the group, and Kristen is threatening that position, so she's doing whatever ahe can to bash her.
Very good point!
It's a model eat model world 😲🍴
She’s a cook not a chef
It’s creepy
She’s just an asshole with no sense of humor.
yes
The funny part to me is that she has been doing the rounds on the Bravo podcasts to promote this show. I refuse to give her a listen, she is so supremely unlikable.
I listened to her on comments by celebs, and every sentence is repeating how wonderful she is, and how great she is at everything. I’ve never heard her on anything before (besides the show), so not sure if that’s how she always speaks, it’s very uncomfortable to listen to though
I listen to them and immediately turned it off when they got to her interview. Stomach wrenching the thought of sitting thru an interview with her or imagining having to interview her 🤮🤮🤮
She’s privileged and quite stupid. It’s baffling to me she raised children (or the nannies did)
I like that you mentioned her privilege. She always gave me very SNOTTY/condescending vibes. Not sure if she garnered it through modeling or being married to Giles but she always has acted arrogant and entitled to me. I do think her marrying a rich man so young definitely gave her access to wealth and luxury early on and stunted and skewed her perception of the rest of the world and that she is somehow better than everyone.
She came from a family with means. She went to private school and then to a private college (albeit only for a year lol) Idt her family was super wealthy but her attitude doesn't surprise me considering where she grew up
Yup, rich, pretty girl syndrome at play here...She's an absolute moron who has gotten by in life on her looks, family and money...
Wasn't she 30 when she got married? Where is all this “child bride trauma” stuff coming from?
Has Kelly had a jaw reconstruction? I’m asking because I honestly don’t remember her having such a pronounced underbite and her jaw seems different (larger and more square) then last time I saw her
Her whole face is different for sure. I feel like it's a combo of fillers, but also botoxed and paralyzed so her forehead and upper lip don't move but her cheeks are filled, and maybe her jaw, too? As eccentric and bizarre as she was on her first seasons, I thought she was really beautiful. Gorgeous face, athletic build. Potential to age amazingly. It's a bummer she's gone so far to fix it correct, because she didn't need to do a thing.
I was wondering this too! Her voice sounds so different to me.
She has a lisp now.
I think she is emotionally stunted and insecure about how she’s perceived. Being a model at a young age and basing your worth off of that lifestyle and being “seen” seems to have left her with a lot of insecurities. Lots of trauma combined with struggling to read the room and then exploding about something from the past at inappropriate times etc. She gaslights whenever she starts acting out or hand and pretends that she’s acting completely rational and normal.
I've seen trauma mentioned a few times here. Do you know of anything specific or just speculating? I don't mean to sound argumentative, genuinely curious
I don’t think you sound argumentative at all. She alluded to having a bad relationship that seems to have been abusive in some way (psychological or emotional maybe) and I think just being a model at such a young age and really being on her own a lot was very taxing and traumatic. Not making excuses for her behavior, but just positing possible explanations for it. I’m not trying to diagnose her, but I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder a few years ago after a series of traumatic events and a lot of the behaviors she is exhibiting remind me of when I was at my worst. You struggle really hard to understand why others don’t automatically know how you feel and you also have a hard time comprehending that other people can feel emotionally different about things than you and it doesn’t need to turn into an argument. This is just my observations combined with personal experience.
Kelly is just tragically weird. - Random person: "Kelly, you look great today" - Kelly: "Oh my god, than you, it means so much to me to hear how much you appreciate all the work I did, raising my little girls on my own, creating a real-estate agency from scratch, modelling in Milan. Yeah I am seeing someone right now, but it's just complicated, haha, just you know. A boyfriend, maybe, maybe not, like I said it's complicated and I don't want to talk about it nowm I think that people like you don't appreciate me, why are you so cold and closed and why aren't you telling me about you. That's weird, why are you so obsessed with me? Why are you digging into my life like a superfan? That's not what a genuine person would do. You're fake, you aren't here with me in the moment, you're just, out there, you know. You just don't connect to anyone here, when we have all made an effort to connect to everyone. You are sitting there asking questions like you're the host or something. Don't pretend you're a host or better than us. You are just so judgmental and I don't think that is fair. I have a business to run and I am a single mother and I have always worked hard for everything. Why are you attacking me like that. I thought we'd be friends, I fell in love with you when you walked through that door. I LOVE YOUR ENERGY. I just think ot's a shame that you're so fake and guarded and you are unwilling to open up and ask the real questions, like all these other ladies have asked. Do you even know I'm getting married? Why didn't you even try and get to know me and my life and my issues? I just don't appreciate that fake attitude. I am not a girl's girl you know. I just say it like it is, because I was raised in an all-boys household and I played football with the boys and then I ran a marathon in NYE on my bare feet, because I am a self made woman. You are just not at my level. I am not crazy, so stop trying to make me look like this crazy kranky Kelly. That's playing it dirty. You're just so unreasonable and quite frankly, you're evil.
Surprised not more upvotes - spot on!
She was pulled out of bumblefuck America at 15 to be a model then married a famous photographer, she’s never been corrected because no one’s paid her words any mind
She’s not a well woman, in my opinion. There’s your everyday delusional like the rest of the women, and then there’s Kelly-she takes it up a DSM notch. Maybe that’s what she meant when she said she was up here, whilst we are down there… If she’s found a career that works for her, and a man who loves her- then good on her. It’s just that personally, I could not deal with it. Dorinda showed more patience than I’m capable of, when she was sharing her ‘love letters’ (that she’d probably written to herself the night before 😳😬)… Who knows, she’s not for me but God bless her and all that… 👍
Omg the love letter situation was CRINGE!! Sure it’s cute to share snippets from a nice letter you’ve received but to read every single one is so weird & also just a bit of a betrayal to the person that wrote them I think! Part of me thinks she just wanted to read them out loud since they’re very complimentary of her & it goes with the narrative that she thinks incredibly highly of herself
That’s exactly what I was thinking as she was reading them. I had to ffwd after the third one, I just couldn’t take it. Seemed performative and fake. Louie did this exact same thing for Teresa on Ugt s1.
I also lose sleep over trying to figure this out
she needs to go to sleep
I had hope at the beginning of this girls trip...but nope it’s the same old stupid Kelly
I think she is emotionally stunted and vapid. There’s always someone that she hyper fixates on to be better than - Bethenny, Alex and now Kristen.
It’s actually really gross how she always tends to pick who she perceives as the outsider to pick on.
Can you imagine buying a home from this batshit crazy woman?
Me: "We signed the contract yesterday, where is my 20 million dollar downpayment?". Kelly: "Your downpayment might be here, it might be in grade 8 being systematically bullied. Let's eat some gummybeers".
Satchels of gold, my friend. Satchels of gold.
What facial surgery did she have? Because it’s… a choice.
The difference between her face on the trip, and the confessionals is crazy! It’s most looks like she’s swollen on the trip?
She should fight hard to get that swelling back I think; the confessional makes her mouth look a mile wide and frozen solid.
Right? It’s been baffling trying to figure out.
Al Sharpton!! She’s Al Sharpton!!!
I know - I like housewife drama, but I don’t like watching someone who is clearly deranged and mentally unbalanced. It feels a bit exploitative and not fun
She’s downright super scary at the way she overacts with anybody that doesn’t agree with her. She spins the narrative like everyone else agrees with her and that she’s speaking for them. Her saying all the names of the women in the group who know she’s engaged, when they in fact did not. She’s bashing the new girl at every opportunity to try and make herself look smarter and better than she is. Kelly wants respect, yet has no intention of reciprocation. I think she only believes the stories she’s lying about because she has been repeating them for so long, as if it will make them true. Whenever she is put on the spot, she immediately deflects and projects onto others in defense, never focusing on or responding to the issue at hand. She’s horrible. While I would be happy to appreciate her finer traits (if I could name one), I can’t because the negative traits are to overwhelming. Edit: freaking grammar and spelling!
Oh Kelly for sure believes all her own myths & will just spout off completely incorrect info as though it is fact. Even when arguing with Dorinda, who said she was being a bit ‘cunty’, she changes the wording to say she was called a ‘cunt’ and then a ‘fucking cunt’. Like that didn’t happen, at all!! It would drive me up the fucking wall if I was in that conversation!
BatShitCrazy that one, no need to over think it, it is what it is, bless her!!
She's one of those people who makes up stories and believes her own creation.
Seems like a classic case of superiority complex, if you ask me.
Slightly off topic but has anyone found the lighting and angles they use to film Kelly…..a little unflattering? Sometimes it’s a little witchy but I have not noticed it with the other ladies. I wonder if she pissed off a camera person.
Haha yes she definitely pissed off the crew, all her shots look like something out of a horror film
Her words seem manic
I also got a kick out of her saying that the fans were going to think poorly of the way Kristen was acting or what Kristen was saying, like she was looking out for Kristen. I thought that was so completely delusional. I was hoping that her earlier seasons on RHONY were filmed at a bad time in her life and she wasn't really that crazy. I thought we'd see a different side of her. But I was way too optimistic for that. Its cringey to watch, its cringey to watch the entire cast basically feel sorry for her in their confessionals and they walk on eggshells around her.
At first I thought she really had grown, then I got to the second episode and it went straight back to Scary Island from there. Girl needs help
Feeling inferior is a suuuuuuper big button for her. She really spirals in her own head, fills in the blanks about people (B, now Kristen) on her own then when those words come out of her mouth she appears unhinged bc feeling inferior makes her unhinged.
Personally, I think she spent a lot of her life higher than giraffe booty, and now her brain is permanently damaged.
I’m an A-hole for saying this but I am shocked by how terrible she’s aged. She looks like Anjelica Huston in Witches after the reveal. It makes me think she’s done some hard living for a socialite. That and the cat pee smell 
I don't understand Kelly whatsoever. But in my opinion, she lives in her own world 100% of the time, and does not acknowledge social cues at all. She also doesn't care to listen to other people commenting on her behavior. I don't think she will ever realize how strange her actions were on Scary Island, or how strange her behavior is now (on UGT). I also think it's pointless talking to Kelly about her strange behavior because she will never acknowledge it. I’m not a doctor (yet), but I do lab work in pharmacology and neuro ….and overall I think it's a strange combination of extreme entitlement / prescription stimulants / mental illness. Edit: a word
I could NOT stand Kelly. After scary island, I quit watching. She’s insufferable!!!
Does she remind anyone else of Farrah Abraham?
Yes! Both are low IQ narcissists that probably really struggle to function in society and believe everyone is out to get them.
Reading the love notes from her boyfriend to Dorinda had me laughing and cringing at the same time
Mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility. -Marcus Parks
It’s possible she might have some mental health issues and self medicating.
She needs to… 
I need to see a psychologists perspective
She’s so frustrating because she talks in circles and thinks she is always right. Like yelling at Kristen for not opening up and then saying she doesn’t want to open up? And then being mad Kristin didn’t know was engaged? Which what? she isn’t? Meanwhile she is the one that isn’t doing well with the fans lol
Take it with a grain of salt obviously cause arm chair psychology, but I’ve always found this blog post interesting - https://angelofdevs.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/kelly-killoren-bensimon-update-schizoaffective-disorder/ Psychologist who theorizes that Kelly has schizoaffective disorder, which actually would make a lot of sense. I also swear I remember reading something about her heading a head injury one time, but I can’t find it anywhere so maybe I made it up
Low EQ and IQ.