“You’re desperate to change your body, people will go through great lengths. “When people come in and say silicone, they don’t really know what they mean because it could be anything,” says Asa Radix, senior director of research and education for Callen-Lorde in New York City, an LGBTQ-focused health center, adding that some of his patients even had quick cement or peanut butter injected in them. It makes health experts reticent to even call the mixture “silicone,” at all. In one Florida woman’s case, tire sealant and cement were both injected into her face. But over the past five years, there have been a number of news reports exposing “pumping parties,” where groups of trans women pool their money to get injected with silicone, and the practice has now become more underground and more risky.Īnd much of that has to do with what’s being put in the mixture, which many times is unknown by those who receive the injections. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 SongsĪmong trans women, silicone injections are a well known way to achieve the ultimate body: curvy butt, thick thighs or larger breasts. Season 2 of The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip premieres on Peacock on Thursday, June 23.Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Dan “It definitely caused conversations that if we had all been in a hotel or, like, in Turks and Caicos those issues would have come up.” “When it’s your house, and you’re the host, there’s certain expectations of the host and certain expectations of being a guest in someone’s house,” Jill told Us. So different, yet so similar.”Īccording to all the ladies, Dorinda wasn’t just in the hot seat with Vicki - mostly due to the fact that the show was filmed at her beloved Blue Stone Manor in the Berkshires. “Her and Dorinda are our, hands down, two that I just did not realize that I would just fall in love with. I mean, you know, people warned me about Brandi - ‘She’s crazy, watch out, you know, she’s the devil.’ But, man, after I really got to know her, I adore her,” the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star told Us.
“Surprisingly, I bonded probably the most with Dorinda and Brandi Glanville. Meanwhile, Phaedra got along great with the former diamond holder. And then when we met, the first day, I think she said to me, ‘I kind of like you.’ I’m like, ‘Of course what’s not like?’ Then, we kind of went from there, but I think there was a lot of drinking and F-bombs thrown for the first couple days.” “We had some back history, social media stuff that her and I got into and it was a lot. “We did not hit it off from the very beginning,” Tamra told Us. Unfortunately for the Celebrity Big Brother alum, it wasn’t long before she and the Real Housewives of Orange County alum were fighting it out. I just want to go have fun and be on vacation.’” “We had, like, a social media drama, not even a year - like, six months before so it just kind of changed for me and I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to go and fight. And then I heard Tamra was doing it,” Brandi told Us. And I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I get to live my life again.’ It’s like, we’re coming out of COVID and I get to go somewhere. “Originally, I was super excited just because I haven’t really traveled, you know, during COVID. We’re not in high school.”įor the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, however, Tamra was the one she was most nervous to film with. I’m like, ‘I do not need to be the queen bee, you guys can fight over that all you want.’ I feel like it was more of, like, who’s more popular? It was really silly. But Dorinda felt like it was her home, so she was in charge,” Brandi exclusively says in the new issue of Us Weekly. It was like, ‘Who’s the OG?’ And obviously, it’s Vicki.
“I felt like were both, like, peacocking a lot. Andy Cohen referred to the season 2 cast of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip as his “twisted fantasy” - and according to Brandi Glanville, Tamra Judge, Phaedra Parks, Dorinda Medley and Jill Zarin, the group, which also includes Vicki Gunvalson, Taylor Armstrong and Eva Marcille, lived up to the challenge.