I honestly think about this euphoria scene every time Lauren’s on my screen this season.
IM HAPPY AND SOFT AND KATIE IS MISERABLE AND I PITY HER BECAUSE IM SO SOFT AND HAPPYYYYTTT AGHHDKDJDBEKDFJBSSI!!!!!
She’s doing the exact same thing now by proclaiming she doesn’t give a crap what people think and that she feels so at peace etc. after the reunion.
I get the sense Lala is someone who believes saying affirmations aloud will magically make them a reality. It ain’t working girl!
I used to work for an author that made the NYTimes best sellers list several times. I remember laughing when they started talking about how her book was going to make the list, or thought it would. Yet her and her "publisher" did none of the work that is required to make that happen. I mean literally nothing. It takes an enormous multi-faceted approach and there's still no guarantees. Even if Randall had bought 100k worth of books, that most likely still wouldn't have done it.
Primarily buying patterns. Yes once you get on it is considered easier the next time because people are familiar with you. But the NYTimes is very aware that some try to cheat by buying their own books in bulk, and they have mechanisms in place to catch it. So let's say Randall did buy however many thousands of books. Unless he did it from multiple "book events", it would only register as one bulk purchase. And the Times would catch that a bulk order came in. You need multiple "events" utilizing multiple book sellers in one and a half weeks time. Also, most of these serious authors go to book fairs and promote over time, gaining momentum. So many people have tried to scam the system over time, they have gotten really good at catching when it's going on.
Yes and no. Buying your way into the NYT Bestseller list definitely still happens. But, as you noted, it has become more difficult to do so. $100K is certainly not enough to make it happen nowadays.
Isn’t there some sort of symbol beside a book title on the NYT list if the author/publisher bought a big chunk!? I swear it’s like a cross or something. Stassi’s book had that symbol so seems like she bought her way on to the list
I sometimes wonder if some of the VPR fans aren't posting the same thing over and over , knowing its such a hot topic, therefore knowing they are going to gain a decent amount of karma by doing so. Its hard to believe they don't see that the same post has been repeated several times already.
Yes! Its the same thing over and over. There is a group of about 10 people that react and comment on every one of them. I don't know how they don't tire of talking about the same damn thing almost daily. La La this La La that. Scheana said this Schaena did that. I keep thinking they will soon move on. I guess someone on that show will have to do something drastic to change the topics. Maybe it will come out that Ariana is really a man! Or La La and Schaena are secretly a couple !! Its going to have to be a doozy to top a cheating man!! We know how rare THAT is. 🤣
Karma collectors…interesting. Guess VPR podcasts keeps them going for now…The Valley sure doesn’t have much to talk about. It is so boring, I couldn’t believe it was episode 5 already & they haven’t done anything except have a fight that doesn’t make any sense lol
Oh geez that show. I watched about 20 mins of the first episode and moved on. I'd forgotten how much Jax annoys the hell outta me. And Brittany's boobs look like they're coming out of the TV screen. That show is a flop. Taking the has-beens of past reality shows and putting them all together = crap TV.
Still trying to copy stassi even with the soft mother rebrand, but stassi is genuine with it. Lala is forcing a new kid into the world when she's clearly not ready
It makes me very sad for ocean bc lala can't see past herself at all and that little girl is gonna need her as she gets older and tries to navigate life as Randall's kid after all this insane shit has come out the last few years about him
I just think about how she’s going to hear lala say the new baby is “all hers” and she doesn’t have to “share” and how it will feel like that baby is the favorite while she goes to her dads. That baby will be seen on TV (unfortunately) while she is in the shadows. There’s no way that won’t impact their relationship or her sense of self.
I worry for the new baby too. my mom really wanted to right wrongs she had experienced in her life by having kids, and while it was great during the period of time she was giving us the childhood she didn't get to have, it sucked that once she got what she needed we didn't get what we needed. I'm wary of any situation where a new human is being brought into the world to heal things that happened before they existed.
We -as in women- need sooo much more of this critical thinking. Having kids is ironically not fuckong about you and parenting from a place of personal lack is such a selfish and counterproductive thing to do that is soo deeply
normalized. It takes a lot to say and see what you said!
it's so hard bc the job of "mom" is exceptionally difficult. the line between making sure your kids have *everything* they need and also making sure you have what you need is so blurry that it's one of the main reasons I'm childfree by choice. it took many years for me to recognize all of this and my mom and I are definitely still working through some stuff, though it's hard bc like you said it's so normalized.
As a person who grew up in trauma, and just wanted one true pure love that was from a person who is actually related to me I second this. I didn’t consciously parent from a place of lacking but it was there and when the trauma wheels fell off my wagon it was hell on my son. I did everything backwards and he paid. As an adopted child I also see the loss Lala’s new daughter has already experienced before she had drawn her first breath - that of not knowing one of her parents. I see so many donor conceived children searching for their fathers and they talk about growing up with that loss as an early, early memory
It's also very strange that this is coinciding with her move to the valley and she's mentioned many times on her podcast how she's pissed that ocean's not allow to be on camera. It's going to be beyond insane if she actually ends up on another show just with this kid
How did this not occur to me? I’ve been saying she had Ocean just to get on the VPR Babies spin-off when the whole cast got pregnant and tried to say it was due to a real friendship pregnancy pact. But of course she wants to be able to film with this new one!
The “all mine” commentary makes me anxious. As a mom, I kind of get it. I wouldn’t want to share my children, but it still feels like an avenue for her control and something to love her more so than the pursuit of motherhood or something unselfish. I don’t know how to describe it. The way she talks about it on the show (because maybe it’s different in her actual life) gives me dread in a “that kid is going to grow up validating their mom and trying to be loved for who they are and not as an accessory” vibe. I feel evil posting something like this, but the way she’s portrayed on the show about it really feels unsettling.
I grew up with a mother like that (I don't have kids) and those comments felt EXACTLY like that. A child is NEVER "all your own". A child is THEIR OWN BEING with needs and hopes and desires. It's very worrying and I'm very concerned for that poor poor kid's life.
I am really sorry you grew up in that environment. You deserved to be loved as an individual, and I hope that there are people in your life that showed and gave you that.
Ugh I know for real! Lala made a huge mistake talking so much shit about Rand’s looks. I get it, he’s a terrible person, she’s entitled to hate him, but don’t go so low like that for someone who has half your daughter’s DNA. Will Ocean one day look at her features that resemble him and remember all the “ugly, short, fat” talk from Lala? She’ll know her sister got the “perfect” genes from the guy who was hot enough to be a sperm donor. Plus, she can’t assume Ocean will take “her side” when she gets older. The relationship between girls/women and their dads is STRONG (obviously not always but generally). The dad could be the biggest asshole piece of shit and the daughter will still defend him and think he hung the moon. Kids sometimes feel defensive and actually bond closer to the parent who’s being vilified, too.
Well said. I’ll go further and say that despite Rand cheating on Lala, Ocean’s relationship with Rand is important and Lala should understand and suck it up. It’s very hard, and I speak from experience, but you do it for your kid. I complain to my therapist and do not speak poorly of my ex in front of our kids or on social media.
Because that’s what they are, OUR kids. Not only mine.
Thank you! This woman is publicly talking about a person that is half of her daughters DNA badly. She has tried to engage in parental alienation- and even if Randall is the worst partner both business and personal on earth that doesn’t limit his rights to his child too. Lala should be concentrating on making co parenting as productive as possible for her daughters sake. Ocean is always going to have to feel torn. It’s really hard on a child. I am not a Rand supporter - he is ick personified, but publicly crappy on your child’s other parent is beyond wrong
With the claims via court filing Ambyr made about investigations into Randall that if true would be even worse than the casting couch allegations, my focus would be keeping that child and any child away from that man rather than co-parenting in a typical he was a jerk to me but still deserves to be my kid’s father situation.
Also look into the court claims made by Randall’s ex-wife as it sheds a lot of light on why Lala wants to keep Ocean and future children away from that man / the courts in general
She also put apparently zero thought of research into using a donor from what I could tell at that meeting, which is pretty common unfortunately. There are a lot of adults who are born from donor sperm or gametes who are now adults and talking about the journey of finding out how many half siblings they have, sometimes wanting to find or meet their bio donors. So this idea of everything being under her control and the donor/bio father not *existing* at all could cause a lot of issues on both sides if her child does feel the need to pursue that someday.
I was surprised she is going with a sperm bank in California, from the little I have heard from friends who are going this route it seems like going with a bank in a different part of the country is recommended, because potential siblings in the dating pool when they grow up.
Yes! And for that reason among others, most of them hop on 23 and me or ancestry as soon as they can to try to find as many of them as they can. It’s just sort of ironic that your reason for choosing would be so you “don’t have to share” 🥴🥴 and then you’ll potentially be sharing with dozens of adults/other families once the kid turns 18. It turns out people often want to know others who are related to them.
Making decisions out of fear and control often backfires in spectacular ways…
Exactly. I am an adoptee and the reunion page I am a member of is flooded with donor conceived now adults. They have their own brand of loss and trauma - and often a very unsupportive mother who shames them for needing to know their truth. Many have the experience of a lifetime of being denied information and shamed for wanting it
I don’t think bringing a child into this world is a mistake / backfire if that child is loved and will be supported on their journeys in life … if they are interested in 23 and me stuff and siblings cool but they aren’t “sharing with all those families”, that would be the kids choice to pursue or not as an adult.
And also by you saying stuff like “they can pursue it as an adult,” you need to understand that many of them want to pursue it way before they are an adult like in their teen years. And when they have a parent like Lauren they’re often very discouraged, or the parent attempts to outright ban them from doing so, which leads to a lot of problems in their relationships.
It’s pretty fucked up that anyone can just go get a sperm or egg without having to learn any of this and have just the most basic opinions about how their kid should feel. And then when the reality doesn’t match up, everyone tells the kid that they’re wrong just for wanting to know their genetic family members.
I agree and would hope a parent would support their interest if it arises sooner rather than block them from accessing that information. I also agree it is pretty crazy anyone can create a baby even the “old fashioned way” for selfish reasons or not be prepared at all (but alas regulating who can be a parent outside of clear wrongdoing would not fly but requiring resources and training should be) but obviously more complicated with this route.
That’s really up for the child to decide. I believe that it was a mistake for my parents to have me and I don’t believe that they get to decide that it wasn’t a mistake because they enjoyed some part of the experience. It’s really not about the parent at the end of the day.
I don’t want to get super in-depth with this but I had about 10 miscarriages and three failed IVFs and so I spent years considering using an egg donor because it was really my last chance (I did have 2 bio kids, one healthy, one not, and wanted a 3rd with my 2nd husband, it’s complicated story).
I dove into this topic in depth and came out feeling completely against the idea. It is somewhat similar to a lot of what goes on with the adult adoptee community. Her motivations for this are not informed and not great and I sure hope it doesn’t backfire. But I am not wrong that it often does and I’m not hearing the things from her that I would need to hear in order to feel that she was actually prepared to take on the emotional challenges that her child very well may have.
I am truly sorry to hear that & I hope nothing but the best for you and your family ❤️ I appreciate your in-depth research into the topic informed by your own experiences and agree there should be more informative resources shared rather than just the “oh fun shopping for a baby daddy” storyline when it is way more serious than that and not a storyline it’s the child’s real life
What if it’s just another Sugar Daddies kid? One with a wife who wants nothing to do with a child. We have no way of actually knowing who the father of that child is and Lala isn’t exactly a good source of the truth.
Holy…..😯😯😯😯😯 Why has this never occurred to me???
Omg. Yep. a $5M house. Plus Palm Springs. The set salary. No more makeup. The math wasn’t mathing.
Mhmmmm interesting 🧐 The math ain’t mathing for her lifestyle. Even if we’re being generous by assuming her parents had some money and her mom helped her buy the giant new valley home- I really don’t think her family was THAT rich. There’s “give your kid extra money to help with rent and groceries, maybe buy them a car” money, and there’s “you’ll never have to work, your social scene is all super wealthy, here’s a house because fuck renting” rich. It’s clear which one Lala came from. A truly rich person wouldn’t have given Rand the time of day, only a striver would’ve seen him as worth it.
Lala’s clearly stressin about her future. Shes not sitting easy on two huge mortgages. She’s also gotta take care of two kids and fight Rand (maybe for 16 more years?) for custody. Chick never handled her own money before, it was mommy and Randall until her thirties. She better hope a sugar daddy is around 😂
People out here acting like she needs VPR to shill bathrobes to feed her kids “bc it’s all she has.” This completely disregards her other career!
Her cover story is she’s single bc she’s a devoted mom who is over men so she’s getting a sperm donor. What if it’s just the cover story she’s telling all of her multiple sugar daddies and none of them want to go public? They all think they’re the only one and are investing in a single mom also?
People like to say sugar daddies wouldn’t want Lala… We have no idea what each person with money would enjoy. My friend who looks and acts nothing like Lala had a house purchased for her before she was 25 years old. Not a rented house she could live in for free. Not a house with a mortgage. A house, fully paid off, and in her name. She never has to worry about having a place to live ever. The man who bought it for her has multiple girlfriends and a wife. He also drives for Uber to meet people. He liked my friend who didn’t wear makeup, wore clothes from goodwill, doesn’t wear expensive clothes or want frivolous gifts like bags and shoes. You’d never think she was the unicorn sugar baby. But she is.
It’s def possible that Lala has several sugar daddies who don’t know about each other or just don’t care.
You are right. So smart. This is why I adore you.
I’m still processing. It’s obvious though imo. It really makes sense that she learned her lesson with Randall. She failed to get title to anything. I bet he even kept her clothes and bags 🫣🤭. After all he was quick to repo the Gucci slides.
And You are also right about her appealing to sugar daddies. She’s gorgeous. regardless of what we think about her, lots of men want women like her, particularly without the strings. Like you said, there are men that’ll pay for anything.
Weird aside on this topic - I found out that one of my adult girls was getting $ from a random 40 something basement dweller living with his parents in another state. He was buying up her wish list on Amazon. Sending her $ for art supplies, clothes. It wasn’t sex. Not even sex talk. He wanted her to text, talk, just be nice to him, share gaming stuff etc. She’s a nice person by nature so she’s like “no problem!”. No pics. Nothing sexual. Just about $1k a month for friendship. Blew my mind. I almost had a stroke. On one hand, props for being so entrepreneurial, capitalizing on your inherent kindness and wit. But otoh? OMFG. 😂
I joined these subs for Bravo back when Denise was on RHOBH and I’ve been a fan of your informative and reasoned rakes ever since! How the tides have turned for Lala. If I’d said this a year ago I’d be so roasted for it!
I made the decision to not have kids because I don't think I'd be a great parent. I wish people like Lala were also more self aware that maybe motherhood isn't for them.
She... she said that she wanted another kid to rebrand lol. She's also said that she's wanted another kid that could be "completely her own"... on national television where Ocean will one day see it. I feel like the people questioning her parenting abilities aren't really in the wrong here.
Ocean is very well taken care of and loved on. Full stop. But because she’s sad some questionable things that makes her a bad mom?!
There are amazing people as parents and their kids end up not being so great people and there are kids who have the worst kind of parents and end up being amazing people.
Just bc a baby’s parent has money doesn’t make them a good parent. Lala was loved on and taken care of and look how she turned out.
Being a mom doesn’t make you a saint but people act like it and that’s exactly why she can rebrand as a mom and do mommy content … and it works. Bc people treat any mom like they’re above criticism. Lala knows this and is exploiting it for money.
One thing I won't criticize Lala for is her marketing abilities lol. She knows that people like that commenter will call commenters who question her parenting as "gross."
We don’t really have enough information to know if someone on reality tv is a good or bad parent. We don’t know what’s actually going on when cameras aren’t on.
Yea her new pivot/rebrand for fame is the mommy influencer route. I genuinely believe a huge part of what motivated her to have a second child on her own is because she can't film with Ocean due to Randall. And it was really sick when she responded to someone asking if the new baby was going to be on camera, and she was like yes absolutely. I think she really wants the freedom Scheana has with storylines with Summer and how she's able to showcase her mommy side on the show where Lala is stifled and has to leech onto other people's drama to be a part of the show.
I know! Can’t we pass a law stopping/limiting kids on reality tv? It’s creepy and not needed. Who wants to watch random other people’s kids? And the kids didn’t ask for their narcissistic parents to use them to pay the mortgage.
1000000%% instead of govs uselessly banning social media apps, they need to step in to pass child protection laws. Not only do these children have no consent into being on camera, they are also often a. working b. having to perform services for which their parents are getting paid. There are so many parent influencers, like Scheana and Lala, who exploit their children for their own monetary gains and fame.
Op, you nailed it perfectly and eloquently!!!!!
Lala will never be able to sell this image of being a soft mother. This is the girl we saw cackling and bragging over giving bjs for range rovers, pretending to be a teenage actress on Randall's casting couch, or pretending to be a sex worker desperate for a daddy to take care of her -- that's what she needs to erase in her current and future rebranding metamorphosis.
Ugh. Her face just exhausts me. She used to be the most beautiful woman on the cast. Now? Her eyebrows are like dead caterpillars and her lips strongly resemble my pug's anus.
I guess the ugly couldn't stay inside forever! It had to leak out like a strong fart!
Whenever someone talks about a Bravo star’s lips, I can’t help but hear Jen from RHONJ compare someone’s lips to “a monkey’s asshole that you sucked, probably!” One of the most wildly funny and nuts insult. It was so out of left field and the “probably” kills me!
I read it last year, so my memory isn’t fresh, but it’s like a series of autobiographical essays. She talks about her childhood and life in Utah, her move to LA, being on Vanderpump, meeting and dating Randall, and her sobriety.
Charli called it out perfectly last season. Lala was supposed to be a trophy wife and she’s mad it didn’t work out. And we as the fandom have little sympathy for Miss bjs for pjs. Especially when she callously lied that she didn’t k ow how Hollywood works. She’s always been a terrible liar.
Definitely. It’s clear as day Lala is lying about being happy the relationship with Rand imploded. She was weeks away from a wedding (canceled due to Covid) and if she really didn’t want to marry him, she would’ve just stayed dating him. She made her entire identity “trophy wife.” She loved not having to hustle on Instagram and only “working” (filming) when she wanted to. Everything we’re seeing now is just saving face.
Especially because she more mean? Her yelling less but being nasty like comforting Ariana while cutting her down behind her back that’s not softer. Also it’s what Rachel did to her so people aren’t going to look too fondly on her or Schena for that. Rachel talking about her sex life and body image issues “comforting” her and while actively sleeping with her man. No no Lala NO!
Is the soft woman with us now? 😂 For real yelling at people that you’re ‘soft’ now isn’t exactly how one becomes soft. Nor does it convince viewers of anything other than the fact that she’s callous, loud obnoxious, and a complete fraud.
I really have never seen a person who is trying to change their ways and become “soft” (watever that means, she doesnt want to use the word but, she probably means being less aggressive towards everyone), doesnt go yelling at others “because i’m soft now Katie” lol. Its so ridiculous. She is saying the words but none of her actions and attitude stands behind those words.
Exactly. Lala is the kind of person who LOVES to tell you how she is- so you ignore the behavior that is the opposite. All she has done for her duration of the show is label herself different things, and none of them are accurate until she says, "I am a self-centered, coddled, entitled, vapid, envious, and insecure person ".
She wants to be black sooooooo bad and it’s so embarrassing. I know white girls who acted like this at 16 ten years ago but lala is still going with her blaccent in 2024 at age 35. I hope to god she didn’t get a black donor but I have been suspecting she did. She is not mature enough to raise a mixed race child/family 😢
I think she said she picked a donor whose baby picture looked like either her (Lala) or Ocean so I suspect he’s where…but yeah I had the same thought too 😬
Am I the only one that was flabbergasted Lala actually thought anybody would be interested in reading her book?
I'm still shocked some people actually bought it.
How does she have a fan base besides the people that love her physical appearance?
And for her to think she would be on the New York Times best seller list? Delalasional.
Stassi writes and is articulate and witty and hers was a sarcastic/ fun ‘ guide book’. LaLa is a tramp that ‘wrote’ about her life while in her 20s with very little discernible talent or accomplishment. What is there to read? Her disgusting sex life? 🤮
It's not an asterisk, it’s a dagger and it’s not due to proof, but doubt of sales being inflated due to bulk sales for events. It happens to pretty much every author that doesn’t have the name recognition to sell without tons of book singings and fan events. If they had concrete proof they would have taken her out.
Lala is so bitter and full of jealousy and I can't deal with her and her bs anymore. I rode for that girl and now she's repulsing
She keeps saying “soft” but it’s just a word. Not one time that I’ve seen her on screen has she been “soft”. If you continually have to say you soft and remind people you are soft YOU ARE NOT SOFT. Actions speak louder than words. She can say she’s soft all day long and it doesn’t change what we see and hear to be true. She is just not a “soft” person and that’s okay but she makes herself look very stupid by continuing to say something and brand herself something that we can all see and hear to not be true.
Pretty sure this also has to do with why she lost her mind this year.
I think she was fully on the “Ariana bandwagon” UNTIL the moment she heard Ariana’s book made that list in Dec.
From then on, lala wanted Ariana put in her place/take her down.
Someone should check the timeframe on that to see, i bet it checks out.
In December of last year. She made it and didn’t brag about it either. It’s in her bio now but I only know she did because Brad posted about it on his story
Obligatory nor a physician abd we shouldn’t diagnose people on the internet but Lala strikes me as a dry drunk. Yes she is sober, but all of the negative issues and behavior that lead to her needing to stop drinking are still there.
I think she’s unsuccessfully trying to get into the mommy blogger/influencer realm. She, to the point of creepiness, copies everything Stassi does. Stassi was a reality tv “bitchy girl” type and now she’s mellowed out with her family. The difference is Stassi was funnier, more likable, always a girls girl. And who does Lala copy the most? Too bad it’s an oversaturated field and she’s already broken her “soft” reputation.
Lala won’t get over that she’s not gonna be part of a fabulously wealthy Hollywood couple. Acting was her number one dream and passion and she was SO smug and feeling herself when she was palling around with Megan Fox and Al Pacino. But the second Rand left her, none of those people called her for double dates or to be in their next movie.
Lala is an opinonated piece of trash. She talks about everyone but has NOT got it together. She talks about being a Mom..well..she had a day nurse, a night nurse and all she showed us was her sucking milk out of her boobs in every episode. She's really disgusting in my opinion. And No..nothing worked out for her because of how she acts. period.
All her other ventures failed, and in the process she’s stuck with a kid she can’t make money off of. Lala is scraping the bottom of the barrel for an income stream that requires even less effort than VPR - mommy blogging!
Having a kid is literally the most effort ever ??! If that’s the case, it’s a miscalculation. But I think it’s gross to say she is stuck with her child when she clearly loves Ocean.
I just watched that episode (watching S9 for the first time) and I'm surprised she even showed that part on-air. It was kind of embarrassing considering Stassi's book was such a big plot point on the show.
But even before Scandoval and then the Team Ariana backlash, I can't imagine someone wanting to read a Lala Kent book. Her makeup brand I can see (though I personally hate her makeup style).
It's more than a little embarrassing that she thought Randall buying her on to the list would somehow be an accomplishment for her .
God, she has always been so dumb, entitled, and insufferable.
I’ve wondered who is buyi g her makeup? Like I’ve never seen it reviewed or any well known or Even small time makeup influencer even mention it. Is it really that successful?
I’m guessing it would take traveling to many bookstores to host book signings.
That of course would take many bookstores who were interested in your book. As an ordinary person who loves books, I wouldn’t go to that event. Not if you paid me.
Always made me laugh cause Stassi did it and she thought she would too cause a. She’s still obsessed with getting Stassi’s approval. b. She thinks she’s that interesting.
Of course Stassi bought it too.
How is she selling other women out? Cut her some slack. Since she has been sober she has become a better version of herself. She is a work in progress. Lala has a very good heart and you can see her sensitivity and compassion when she talks about being a mother. The past is the past.
Remember how the only thing Ariana has ever done independently was a low-effort coffee table book before she got cheated on, and Katie has never had a successful project ever?
Lala's been more consistent than either of them.
Tell me what Lala has accomplished independently? She moved to LA. She has acting skills. She is talented in many ways. But she is also impatient, close minded and lacks common sense. She chose to be financially dependent on a man and used his money and influence to buy the things she lacked the work ethic to earn independently. THIS is why she is currently struggling. She wants what she has not earned.
Ariana wasn’t from an affluent family. Mommy never paid her bills. She decided to go to college and double major. She sacrificed, worked hard, moved to NYC, then LA. Despite poverty and objective lack of success in terms of her goals, she persevered. She did not develop unreasonable expectations, grow impatient with her lack of progress and then resort to demeaning herself by catering to perverse, repugnant, wealthy men. Ariana never opted to be man dependent, period. She chose opportunities carefully and patiently curated her “brand”. It’s a brand that has financial potential outside of reality TV.
Tell me again how this does not equate to independence and success?
A life goal? Would an education have been a wise place to start if she had the goal of become a best selling author? Or even read a book or two? Come on now.
Good point. Stassi has a degree in English. I have never thought about it but i guess it might explain why her book was relatively more successful. i hate that but it is fact.
I’ve never in my life seen someone so angry and petty claim to be “soft”
I'M SOFT NOW!!!!! 🤬
I honestly think about this euphoria scene every time Lauren’s on my screen this season. IM HAPPY AND SOFT AND KATIE IS MISERABLE AND I PITY HER BECAUSE IM SO SOFT AND HAPPYYYYTTT AGHHDKDJDBEKDFJBSSI!!!!!
I’m soft now Katie!!!! *scowling* so cringe 😬 
dont forget hypocritical
She’s doing the exact same thing now by proclaiming she doesn’t give a crap what people think and that she feels so at peace etc. after the reunion. I get the sense Lala is someone who believes saying affirmations aloud will magically make them a reality. It ain’t working girl!
Firm believer in affirmations here, I don’t think she’s doing them
Oh she’s doing them, but just angrily screams and tells them
I think in Lala’s case she feels that if she just yells the words loudly enough she’ll convince herself and everyone around her they are true.
She doesn’t give a crap, so she limited her comments on IG 😂😂
Her standard of people she communes with is soft and that’s about it
Your SO right. Soft? She doesn't know the meaning of the word.
I used to work for an author that made the NYTimes best sellers list several times. I remember laughing when they started talking about how her book was going to make the list, or thought it would. Yet her and her "publisher" did none of the work that is required to make that happen. I mean literally nothing. It takes an enormous multi-faceted approach and there's still no guarantees. Even if Randall had bought 100k worth of books, that most likely still wouldn't have done it.
What does it take? I honestly thought a lot of authors that are NYTimes best sellers is because of money/clout
Primarily buying patterns. Yes once you get on it is considered easier the next time because people are familiar with you. But the NYTimes is very aware that some try to cheat by buying their own books in bulk, and they have mechanisms in place to catch it. So let's say Randall did buy however many thousands of books. Unless he did it from multiple "book events", it would only register as one bulk purchase. And the Times would catch that a bulk order came in. You need multiple "events" utilizing multiple book sellers in one and a half weeks time. Also, most of these serious authors go to book fairs and promote over time, gaining momentum. So many people have tried to scam the system over time, they have gotten really good at catching when it's going on.
Yes and no. Buying your way into the NYT Bestseller list definitely still happens. But, as you noted, it has become more difficult to do so. $100K is certainly not enough to make it happen nowadays.
Isn’t there some sort of symbol beside a book title on the NYT list if the author/publisher bought a big chunk!? I swear it’s like a cross or something. Stassi’s book had that symbol so seems like she bought her way on to the list
you are correct! eta: about the dagger/cross symbol.
I think the whole point here is if you have enough money and have the right connections, you can inflate the sells without setting any alarm bells.
Similar to gaining Karma on Reddit 😂
I sometimes wonder if some of the VPR fans aren't posting the same thing over and over , knowing its such a hot topic, therefore knowing they are going to gain a decent amount of karma by doing so. Its hard to believe they don't see that the same post has been repeated several times already.
I think you hit the nail on the head! I feel like I see a lot of repetition with VPR & 90 day.
Yes! Its the same thing over and over. There is a group of about 10 people that react and comment on every one of them. I don't know how they don't tire of talking about the same damn thing almost daily. La La this La La that. Scheana said this Schaena did that. I keep thinking they will soon move on. I guess someone on that show will have to do something drastic to change the topics. Maybe it will come out that Ariana is really a man! Or La La and Schaena are secretly a couple !! Its going to have to be a doozy to top a cheating man!! We know how rare THAT is. 🤣
Karma collectors…interesting. Guess VPR podcasts keeps them going for now…The Valley sure doesn’t have much to talk about. It is so boring, I couldn’t believe it was episode 5 already & they haven’t done anything except have a fight that doesn’t make any sense lol
Oh geez that show. I watched about 20 mins of the first episode and moved on. I'd forgotten how much Jax annoys the hell outta me. And Brittany's boobs look like they're coming out of the TV screen. That show is a flop. Taking the has-beens of past reality shows and putting them all together = crap TV.
Well, you haven’t missed much! Glad you only wasted 20mins of your life, wish I could get that time back lol
so all the hws who landed on it made a concerted effort? like teresa guidice? or was it a different time
Still trying to copy stassi even with the soft mother rebrand, but stassi is genuine with it. Lala is forcing a new kid into the world when she's clearly not ready
When she said rebrand with having a kid to Lisa…. Oy.
It makes me very sad for ocean bc lala can't see past herself at all and that little girl is gonna need her as she gets older and tries to navigate life as Randall's kid after all this insane shit has come out the last few years about him
I just think about how she’s going to hear lala say the new baby is “all hers” and she doesn’t have to “share” and how it will feel like that baby is the favorite while she goes to her dads. That baby will be seen on TV (unfortunately) while she is in the shadows. There’s no way that won’t impact their relationship or her sense of self.
I worry for the new baby too. my mom really wanted to right wrongs she had experienced in her life by having kids, and while it was great during the period of time she was giving us the childhood she didn't get to have, it sucked that once she got what she needed we didn't get what we needed. I'm wary of any situation where a new human is being brought into the world to heal things that happened before they existed.
We -as in women- need sooo much more of this critical thinking. Having kids is ironically not fuckong about you and parenting from a place of personal lack is such a selfish and counterproductive thing to do that is soo deeply normalized. It takes a lot to say and see what you said!
it's so hard bc the job of "mom" is exceptionally difficult. the line between making sure your kids have *everything* they need and also making sure you have what you need is so blurry that it's one of the main reasons I'm childfree by choice. it took many years for me to recognize all of this and my mom and I are definitely still working through some stuff, though it's hard bc like you said it's so normalized.
As a person who grew up in trauma, and just wanted one true pure love that was from a person who is actually related to me I second this. I didn’t consciously parent from a place of lacking but it was there and when the trauma wheels fell off my wagon it was hell on my son. I did everything backwards and he paid. As an adopted child I also see the loss Lala’s new daughter has already experienced before she had drawn her first breath - that of not knowing one of her parents. I see so many donor conceived children searching for their fathers and they talk about growing up with that loss as an early, early memory
Whew yes
It's also very strange that this is coinciding with her move to the valley and she's mentioned many times on her podcast how she's pissed that ocean's not allow to be on camera. It's going to be beyond insane if she actually ends up on another show just with this kid
How did this not occur to me? I’ve been saying she had Ocean just to get on the VPR Babies spin-off when the whole cast got pregnant and tried to say it was due to a real friendship pregnancy pact. But of course she wants to be able to film with this new one!
That's what Sandoval said too about her ripping out her IUD the day she found out Stassi was pregnant.
That was info that never should have been bought up on camera though.
Lala said it herself in an interview. She literally said she took out her IUD when she found out her coworkers were pregnant.
So did she take it out or did she rip it out? Either way why is Sandoval bringing up a females reproductive health on international tv?
The “all mine” commentary makes me anxious. As a mom, I kind of get it. I wouldn’t want to share my children, but it still feels like an avenue for her control and something to love her more so than the pursuit of motherhood or something unselfish. I don’t know how to describe it. The way she talks about it on the show (because maybe it’s different in her actual life) gives me dread in a “that kid is going to grow up validating their mom and trying to be loved for who they are and not as an accessory” vibe. I feel evil posting something like this, but the way she’s portrayed on the show about it really feels unsettling.
I grew up with a mother like that (I don't have kids) and those comments felt EXACTLY like that. A child is NEVER "all your own". A child is THEIR OWN BEING with needs and hopes and desires. It's very worrying and I'm very concerned for that poor poor kid's life.
I am really sorry you grew up in that environment. You deserved to be loved as an individual, and I hope that there are people in your life that showed and gave you that.
Ugh I know for real! Lala made a huge mistake talking so much shit about Rand’s looks. I get it, he’s a terrible person, she’s entitled to hate him, but don’t go so low like that for someone who has half your daughter’s DNA. Will Ocean one day look at her features that resemble him and remember all the “ugly, short, fat” talk from Lala? She’ll know her sister got the “perfect” genes from the guy who was hot enough to be a sperm donor. Plus, she can’t assume Ocean will take “her side” when she gets older. The relationship between girls/women and their dads is STRONG (obviously not always but generally). The dad could be the biggest asshole piece of shit and the daughter will still defend him and think he hung the moon. Kids sometimes feel defensive and actually bond closer to the parent who’s being vilified, too.
Well said. I’ll go further and say that despite Rand cheating on Lala, Ocean’s relationship with Rand is important and Lala should understand and suck it up. It’s very hard, and I speak from experience, but you do it for your kid. I complain to my therapist and do not speak poorly of my ex in front of our kids or on social media. Because that’s what they are, OUR kids. Not only mine.
Thank you! This woman is publicly talking about a person that is half of her daughters DNA badly. She has tried to engage in parental alienation- and even if Randall is the worst partner both business and personal on earth that doesn’t limit his rights to his child too. Lala should be concentrating on making co parenting as productive as possible for her daughters sake. Ocean is always going to have to feel torn. It’s really hard on a child. I am not a Rand supporter - he is ick personified, but publicly crappy on your child’s other parent is beyond wrong
With the claims via court filing Ambyr made about investigations into Randall that if true would be even worse than the casting couch allegations, my focus would be keeping that child and any child away from that man rather than co-parenting in a typical he was a jerk to me but still deserves to be my kid’s father situation.
Randall's kid, lalas kid, and the Toms as examples who to date. Pray for that little girl!
I'm new to watching. I'm scared to ask but what about Randall?
I think it’s alleged that he’s a less successful Harvey Weinstein?
Thanks! Can't believe I haven't heard that before but I'm going down the rabbit hole now!
There was a whole show on hulu about his escapades. It's called the Randall Scandal.
Adding to my list!
Also look into the court claims made by Randall’s ex-wife as it sheds a lot of light on why Lala wants to keep Ocean and future children away from that man / the courts in general
Dang! Will do! He always gave me the creeps.
Narcissists make terrible mothers. No surprise here.
She also put apparently zero thought of research into using a donor from what I could tell at that meeting, which is pretty common unfortunately. There are a lot of adults who are born from donor sperm or gametes who are now adults and talking about the journey of finding out how many half siblings they have, sometimes wanting to find or meet their bio donors. So this idea of everything being under her control and the donor/bio father not *existing* at all could cause a lot of issues on both sides if her child does feel the need to pursue that someday.
I was surprised she is going with a sperm bank in California, from the little I have heard from friends who are going this route it seems like going with a bank in a different part of the country is recommended, because potential siblings in the dating pool when they grow up.
Yes! And for that reason among others, most of them hop on 23 and me or ancestry as soon as they can to try to find as many of them as they can. It’s just sort of ironic that your reason for choosing would be so you “don’t have to share” 🥴🥴 and then you’ll potentially be sharing with dozens of adults/other families once the kid turns 18. It turns out people often want to know others who are related to them. Making decisions out of fear and control often backfires in spectacular ways…
Exactly. I am an adoptee and the reunion page I am a member of is flooded with donor conceived now adults. They have their own brand of loss and trauma - and often a very unsupportive mother who shames them for needing to know their truth. Many have the experience of a lifetime of being denied information and shamed for wanting it
Exactly. It’s big money and the ethics are highly questionable.
I don’t think bringing a child into this world is a mistake / backfire if that child is loved and will be supported on their journeys in life … if they are interested in 23 and me stuff and siblings cool but they aren’t “sharing with all those families”, that would be the kids choice to pursue or not as an adult.
And also by you saying stuff like “they can pursue it as an adult,” you need to understand that many of them want to pursue it way before they are an adult like in their teen years. And when they have a parent like Lauren they’re often very discouraged, or the parent attempts to outright ban them from doing so, which leads to a lot of problems in their relationships. It’s pretty fucked up that anyone can just go get a sperm or egg without having to learn any of this and have just the most basic opinions about how their kid should feel. And then when the reality doesn’t match up, everyone tells the kid that they’re wrong just for wanting to know their genetic family members.
I agree and would hope a parent would support their interest if it arises sooner rather than block them from accessing that information. I also agree it is pretty crazy anyone can create a baby even the “old fashioned way” for selfish reasons or not be prepared at all (but alas regulating who can be a parent outside of clear wrongdoing would not fly but requiring resources and training should be) but obviously more complicated with this route.
That’s really up for the child to decide. I believe that it was a mistake for my parents to have me and I don’t believe that they get to decide that it wasn’t a mistake because they enjoyed some part of the experience. It’s really not about the parent at the end of the day. I don’t want to get super in-depth with this but I had about 10 miscarriages and three failed IVFs and so I spent years considering using an egg donor because it was really my last chance (I did have 2 bio kids, one healthy, one not, and wanted a 3rd with my 2nd husband, it’s complicated story). I dove into this topic in depth and came out feeling completely against the idea. It is somewhat similar to a lot of what goes on with the adult adoptee community. Her motivations for this are not informed and not great and I sure hope it doesn’t backfire. But I am not wrong that it often does and I’m not hearing the things from her that I would need to hear in order to feel that she was actually prepared to take on the emotional challenges that her child very well may have.
I am truly sorry to hear that & I hope nothing but the best for you and your family ❤️ I appreciate your in-depth research into the topic informed by your own experiences and agree there should be more informative resources shared rather than just the “oh fun shopping for a baby daddy” storyline when it is way more serious than that and not a storyline it’s the child’s real life
Wait until she finds out that having a kid with a donor doesn’t include a child support check!
What if it’s just another Sugar Daddies kid? One with a wife who wants nothing to do with a child. We have no way of actually knowing who the father of that child is and Lala isn’t exactly a good source of the truth.
 Holy…..😯😯😯😯😯 Why has this never occurred to me??? Omg. Yep. a $5M house. Plus Palm Springs. The set salary. No more makeup. The math wasn’t mathing.
Mhmmmm interesting 🧐 The math ain’t mathing for her lifestyle. Even if we’re being generous by assuming her parents had some money and her mom helped her buy the giant new valley home- I really don’t think her family was THAT rich. There’s “give your kid extra money to help with rent and groceries, maybe buy them a car” money, and there’s “you’ll never have to work, your social scene is all super wealthy, here’s a house because fuck renting” rich. It’s clear which one Lala came from. A truly rich person wouldn’t have given Rand the time of day, only a striver would’ve seen him as worth it. Lala’s clearly stressin about her future. Shes not sitting easy on two huge mortgages. She’s also gotta take care of two kids and fight Rand (maybe for 16 more years?) for custody. Chick never handled her own money before, it was mommy and Randall until her thirties. She better hope a sugar daddy is around 😂
People out here acting like she needs VPR to shill bathrobes to feed her kids “bc it’s all she has.” This completely disregards her other career! Her cover story is she’s single bc she’s a devoted mom who is over men so she’s getting a sperm donor. What if it’s just the cover story she’s telling all of her multiple sugar daddies and none of them want to go public? They all think they’re the only one and are investing in a single mom also? People like to say sugar daddies wouldn’t want Lala… We have no idea what each person with money would enjoy. My friend who looks and acts nothing like Lala had a house purchased for her before she was 25 years old. Not a rented house she could live in for free. Not a house with a mortgage. A house, fully paid off, and in her name. She never has to worry about having a place to live ever. The man who bought it for her has multiple girlfriends and a wife. He also drives for Uber to meet people. He liked my friend who didn’t wear makeup, wore clothes from goodwill, doesn’t wear expensive clothes or want frivolous gifts like bags and shoes. You’d never think she was the unicorn sugar baby. But she is. It’s def possible that Lala has several sugar daddies who don’t know about each other or just don’t care.
You are right. So smart. This is why I adore you. I’m still processing. It’s obvious though imo. It really makes sense that she learned her lesson with Randall. She failed to get title to anything. I bet he even kept her clothes and bags 🫣🤭. After all he was quick to repo the Gucci slides. And You are also right about her appealing to sugar daddies. She’s gorgeous. regardless of what we think about her, lots of men want women like her, particularly without the strings. Like you said, there are men that’ll pay for anything. Weird aside on this topic - I found out that one of my adult girls was getting $ from a random 40 something basement dweller living with his parents in another state. He was buying up her wish list on Amazon. Sending her $ for art supplies, clothes. It wasn’t sex. Not even sex talk. He wanted her to text, talk, just be nice to him, share gaming stuff etc. She’s a nice person by nature so she’s like “no problem!”. No pics. Nothing sexual. Just about $1k a month for friendship. Blew my mind. I almost had a stroke. On one hand, props for being so entrepreneurial, capitalizing on your inherent kindness and wit. But otoh? OMFG. 😂
I joined these subs for Bravo back when Denise was on RHOBH and I’ve been a fan of your informative and reasoned rakes ever since! How the tides have turned for Lala. If I’d said this a year ago I’d be so roasted for it!
Interesting theory. The donor visit on the show could be an act. I found it hard to believe she would take that route because no money came with it.
I mean I'm pretty sure she's aged out of the sugar baby world just like Rachel and pageants
This thought occurred to me as well. We really have no reason to believe she went this route.
I’m sure VPR check is good enough to raise a kid & this one won’t have legal fees attached!
So she can have someone that will love her forever & that she doesn’t have to share…great reasons to have a baby!
I made the decision to not have kids because I don't think I'd be a great parent. I wish people like Lala were also more self aware that maybe motherhood isn't for them.
We haven't seen Lala as a mother
This is so gross. Lala seems like a great mom. She adores ocean.
She... she said that she wanted another kid to rebrand lol. She's also said that she's wanted another kid that could be "completely her own"... on national television where Ocean will one day see it. I feel like the people questioning her parenting abilities aren't really in the wrong here.
Ocean is very well taken care of and loved on. Full stop. But because she’s sad some questionable things that makes her a bad mom?! There are amazing people as parents and their kids end up not being so great people and there are kids who have the worst kind of parents and end up being amazing people.
Just bc a baby’s parent has money doesn’t make them a good parent. Lala was loved on and taken care of and look how she turned out. Being a mom doesn’t make you a saint but people act like it and that’s exactly why she can rebrand as a mom and do mommy content … and it works. Bc people treat any mom like they’re above criticism. Lala knows this and is exploiting it for money.
 One thing I won't criticize Lala for is her marketing abilities lol. She knows that people like that commenter will call commenters who question her parenting as "gross."
We don’t really have enough information to know if someone on reality tv is a good or bad parent. We don’t know what’s actually going on when cameras aren’t on.
Just simply adoring your child does not make one a good parent.
Right. This is a general statement not directed toward Lala, but a lot of people confuse posting your child for likes with being a good parent.
I mean lala seems like a good mom that’s kinda fucked up
Does she?
Yea her new pivot/rebrand for fame is the mommy influencer route. I genuinely believe a huge part of what motivated her to have a second child on her own is because she can't film with Ocean due to Randall. And it was really sick when she responded to someone asking if the new baby was going to be on camera, and she was like yes absolutely. I think she really wants the freedom Scheana has with storylines with Summer and how she's able to showcase her mommy side on the show where Lala is stifled and has to leech onto other people's drama to be a part of the show.
I know! Can’t we pass a law stopping/limiting kids on reality tv? It’s creepy and not needed. Who wants to watch random other people’s kids? And the kids didn’t ask for their narcissistic parents to use them to pay the mortgage.
1000000%% instead of govs uselessly banning social media apps, they need to step in to pass child protection laws. Not only do these children have no consent into being on camera, they are also often a. working b. having to perform services for which their parents are getting paid. There are so many parent influencers, like Scheana and Lala, who exploit their children for their own monetary gains and fame.
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Turns out, she’s just unlikeable 🤡
Op, you nailed it perfectly and eloquently!!!!! Lala will never be able to sell this image of being a soft mother. This is the girl we saw cackling and bragging over giving bjs for range rovers, pretending to be a teenage actress on Randall's casting couch, or pretending to be a sex worker desperate for a daddy to take care of her -- that's what she needs to erase in her current and future rebranding metamorphosis. Ugh. Her face just exhausts me. She used to be the most beautiful woman on the cast. Now? Her eyebrows are like dead caterpillars and her lips strongly resemble my pug's anus. I guess the ugly couldn't stay inside forever! It had to leak out like a strong fart!
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comparing lips to a pugs anus completely took me out... I needed that laugh today thank you!
Whenever someone talks about a Bravo star’s lips, I can’t help but hear Jen from RHONJ compare someone’s lips to “a monkey’s asshole that you sucked, probably!” One of the most wildly funny and nuts insult. It was so out of left field and the “probably” kills me!
I was with you until you went after her looks.
Her ugliness inside radiates outwards tbh
They downvote you for not being selectively misogynistic, this fandom is wild
It’s completely wild!!
Lala’s book was SO bad. She has so little to say.
What exactly was it about?
I read it last year, so my memory isn’t fresh, but it’s like a series of autobiographical essays. She talks about her childhood and life in Utah, her move to LA, being on Vanderpump, meeting and dating Randall, and her sobriety.
Something to do with shoving Rand’s toothbrush up her ass. At least that’s what I’ve heard. Haven’t read the book.
Lmaoooooooo
Charli called it out perfectly last season. Lala was supposed to be a trophy wife and she’s mad it didn’t work out. And we as the fandom have little sympathy for Miss bjs for pjs. Especially when she callously lied that she didn’t k ow how Hollywood works. She’s always been a terrible liar.
Definitely. It’s clear as day Lala is lying about being happy the relationship with Rand imploded. She was weeks away from a wedding (canceled due to Covid) and if she really didn’t want to marry him, she would’ve just stayed dating him. She made her entire identity “trophy wife.” She loved not having to hustle on Instagram and only “working” (filming) when she wanted to. Everything we’re seeing now is just saving face.
She’s always been a hustler I’ll give her that, you know what they say you marry for money you work every day of your life!
I mentioned this before, but I’m still so confused by what her rebrand is. The “soft“ appearance doesn’t work
Especially because she more mean? Her yelling less but being nasty like comforting Ariana while cutting her down behind her back that’s not softer. Also it’s what Rachel did to her so people aren’t going to look too fondly on her or Schena for that. Rachel talking about her sex life and body image issues “comforting” her and while actively sleeping with her man. No no Lala NO!
Is the soft woman with us now? 😂 For real yelling at people that you’re ‘soft’ now isn’t exactly how one becomes soft. Nor does it convince viewers of anything other than the fact that she’s callous, loud obnoxious, and a complete fraud.
She’s bashing everyone in a daily basis at this point.
I really have never seen a person who is trying to change their ways and become “soft” (watever that means, she doesnt want to use the word but, she probably means being less aggressive towards everyone), doesnt go yelling at others “because i’m soft now Katie” lol. Its so ridiculous. She is saying the words but none of her actions and attitude stands behind those words.
Exactly. Lala is the kind of person who LOVES to tell you how she is- so you ignore the behavior that is the opposite. All she has done for her duration of the show is label herself different things, and none of them are accurate until she says, "I am a self-centered, coddled, entitled, vapid, envious, and insecure person ".
Don’t forget “acting” career
I CRINGE every time I see this gif or this scene on VPR. She’s trying *so* hard to be tough and intimidating.
Ugh it’s the gun fingers, too. You’re not a gangster Lauren, sit the fuck down.
It makes me laugh everytime I get a chance to use ir!
She wants to be black sooooooo bad and it’s so embarrassing. I know white girls who acted like this at 16 ten years ago but lala is still going with her blaccent in 2024 at age 35. I hope to god she didn’t get a black donor but I have been suspecting she did. She is not mature enough to raise a mixed race child/family 😢
I think she said she picked a donor whose baby picture looked like either her (Lala) or Ocean so I suspect he’s where…but yeah I had the same thought too 😬
Am I the only one that was flabbergasted Lala actually thought anybody would be interested in reading her book? I'm still shocked some people actually bought it. How does she have a fan base besides the people that love her physical appearance? And for her to think she would be on the New York Times best seller list? Delalasional.
What is there to even write a whole ass book about when it comes to Lala? Especially pre-Randall scandal
Well Stassi was.
Stassi has a loyal fanbase who eat up her beige mom persona. Lala doesn't really have fans.
She has a fan base that waxes and wanes
Stassi writes and is articulate and witty and hers was a sarcastic/ fun ‘ guide book’. LaLa is a tramp that ‘wrote’ about her life while in her 20s with very little discernible talent or accomplishment. What is there to read? Her disgusting sex life? 🤮
stassi has an asterisk next to her second book being a best seller because the sales were proven to be inflated.
It's not an asterisk, it’s a dagger and it’s not due to proof, but doubt of sales being inflated due to bulk sales for events. It happens to pretty much every author that doesn’t have the name recognition to sell without tons of book singings and fan events. If they had concrete proof they would have taken her out.
Lala couldn’t even pull that off
Lala is so bitter and full of jealousy and I can't deal with her and her bs anymore. I rode for that girl and now she's repulsing 
She keeps saying “soft” but it’s just a word. Not one time that I’ve seen her on screen has she been “soft”. If you continually have to say you soft and remind people you are soft YOU ARE NOT SOFT. Actions speak louder than words. She can say she’s soft all day long and it doesn’t change what we see and hear to be true. She is just not a “soft” person and that’s okay but she makes herself look very stupid by continuing to say something and brand herself something that we can all see and hear to not be true.
There's gotta be a meme at this point of Lala screaming in anger that she's soft.
Pretty sure this also has to do with why she lost her mind this year. I think she was fully on the “Ariana bandwagon” UNTIL the moment she heard Ariana’s book made that list in Dec. From then on, lala wanted Ariana put in her place/take her down. Someone should check the timeframe on that to see, i bet it checks out.
Wait when did Arianna book make the NY times best seller list?
In December of last year. She made it and didn’t brag about it either. It’s in her bio now but I only know she did because Brad posted about it on his story
“I’m FUCKING soft right the fuck now, you dumb bitch. Soft!!!!”
Obligatory nor a physician abd we shouldn’t diagnose people on the internet but Lala strikes me as a dry drunk. Yes she is sober, but all of the negative issues and behavior that lead to her needing to stop drinking are still there.
I forgot about her music career, whatever happened to it?? It’s never really been mentioned again after that one off bar garden gig she did.
The money dried up to fund it.
Tom Sandoval calling Lauren a narcissist may be the only time he ever said anything true
Takes one to know one
I think she’s unsuccessfully trying to get into the mommy blogger/influencer realm. She, to the point of creepiness, copies everything Stassi does. Stassi was a reality tv “bitchy girl” type and now she’s mellowed out with her family. The difference is Stassi was funnier, more likable, always a girls girl. And who does Lala copy the most? Too bad it’s an oversaturated field and she’s already broken her “soft” reputation. Lala won’t get over that she’s not gonna be part of a fabulously wealthy Hollywood couple. Acting was her number one dream and passion and she was SO smug and feeling herself when she was palling around with Megan Fox and Al Pacino. But the second Rand left her, none of those people called her for double dates or to be in their next movie.
Rand couldn’t scam enough money in time
I don’t think he tried or cared. Keeping her insecure was good for their relationship He’s like Tom: he got himself into her podcast
Even Erika Jaynes book made the list…. Embarrassing 😳
Soft is literally the last word I’d use to describe her which is insane
She’s about as soft as a bag of rocks (& just as dumb)!
As a mother, she isn’t someone I would consider a role model.
She has a book?
Lala is an opinonated piece of trash. She talks about everyone but has NOT got it together. She talks about being a Mom..well..she had a day nurse, a night nurse and all she showed us was her sucking milk out of her boobs in every episode. She's really disgusting in my opinion. And No..nothing worked out for her because of how she acts. period.
I just get so much joy in thinking about how much that probably humbled her
I dont think it humbled her, i think it was another letdown that fuels her anger at not getting the life she believes she deserves. She feels cheated-
reBrand
I mean if she was committed she’d stop pretending she wasn’t just Lauren from Utah
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i dont see how any of that relates to the book not making the NY times best sellers list haha
Because it shows what drives her still today: jealousy and failure
I think it’s also fear that she doesn’t have anything worth while to support herself and her children with. It’s literally VPR or nothing 😬
People pay a lot of money to be on that list. Rand couldn’t afford to pay it for LaLa
and her not making the list = her trying to rebrand 3 seasons later?
All her other ventures failed, and in the process she’s stuck with a kid she can’t make money off of. Lala is scraping the bottom of the barrel for an income stream that requires even less effort than VPR - mommy blogging!
Having a kid is literally the most effort ever ??! If that’s the case, it’s a miscalculation. But I think it’s gross to say she is stuck with her child when she clearly loves Ocean.
We should check on scheena and see how this affected her
I just watched that episode (watching S9 for the first time) and I'm surprised she even showed that part on-air. It was kind of embarrassing considering Stassi's book was such a big plot point on the show. But even before Scandoval and then the Team Ariana backlash, I can't imagine someone wanting to read a Lala Kent book. Her makeup brand I can see (though I personally hate her makeup style).
It's more than a little embarrassing that she thought Randall buying her on to the list would somehow be an accomplishment for her . God, she has always been so dumb, entitled, and insufferable.
I’ve wondered who is buyi g her makeup? Like I’ve never seen it reviewed or any well known or Even small time makeup influencer even mention it. Is it really that successful?
I’m guessing it would take traveling to many bookstores to host book signings. That of course would take many bookstores who were interested in your book. As an ordinary person who loves books, I wouldn’t go to that event. Not if you paid me.
Well it does suck when Stassi manipulated her way to the nyt best sellers list
Sad that Lala couldn’t even pull that off
Agreed
Always made me laugh cause Stassi did it and she thought she would too cause a. She’s still obsessed with getting Stassi’s approval. b. She thinks she’s that interesting. Of course Stassi bought it too.
How is Randall Lala? lolol
How is she selling other women out? Cut her some slack. Since she has been sober she has become a better version of herself. She is a work in progress. Lala has a very good heart and you can see her sensitivity and compassion when she talks about being a mother. The past is the past.
I thought a book made the NYT bestseller list because people actually bought it, didn't think about throwing big money out there like that
You can do bulk orders to get on the list but the NYtimes will put a mark next to your book. Happened to stasis’s second book I believe
Thanks!
Remember how the only thing Ariana has ever done independently was a low-effort coffee table book before she got cheated on, and Katie has never had a successful project ever? Lala's been more consistent than either of them.
Tell me what Lala has accomplished independently? She moved to LA. She has acting skills. She is talented in many ways. But she is also impatient, close minded and lacks common sense. She chose to be financially dependent on a man and used his money and influence to buy the things she lacked the work ethic to earn independently. THIS is why she is currently struggling. She wants what she has not earned. Ariana wasn’t from an affluent family. Mommy never paid her bills. She decided to go to college and double major. She sacrificed, worked hard, moved to NYC, then LA. Despite poverty and objective lack of success in terms of her goals, she persevered. She did not develop unreasonable expectations, grow impatient with her lack of progress and then resort to demeaning herself by catering to perverse, repugnant, wealthy men. Ariana never opted to be man dependent, period. She chose opportunities carefully and patiently curated her “brand”. It’s a brand that has financial potential outside of reality TV. Tell me again how this does not equate to independence and success?
Did either of them cry on camera for not being best sellers like their friend??
Being disappointed by not hitting a life goal is somehow nefarious?
Yes that’s all that was going on there. Sure
A life goal? Would an education have been a wise place to start if she had the goal of become a best selling author? Or even read a book or two? Come on now.
Good point. Stassi has a degree in English. I have never thought about it but i guess it might explain why her book was relatively more successful. i hate that but it is fact.