I put a link to this Brandi Glanville interview in yesterday’s afternoon links, but it’s worth some coverage today now that I’ve had time to read the whole thing. Brandi sat down for an utterly exhaustive interview with Buzzfeed – you can read the whole thing here. The first half is all Real Housewife stuff – who Brandi is fighting with, who is on drugs, why she runs around throwing verbal bombs at everyone. The second half is more interesting to me (because I don’t watch RHOBH) – it’s about LeAnn and Brandi’s book and stuff. There’s a TON of stuff. Some highlights:
Where Brandi is with LeAnn & Eddie now: “At this point, now that the book is out, this is my last chapter on this front as far as dealing with this publicly. I really want to put this public war with LeAnn and Eddie behind me, and I want to communicate with them privately. If they’ll have me. And move past this conversation.”
Working on co-parenting, honesty: “In the past, I’ve had [LeAnn and Eddie] over for Easter to my house. They were fully making out. It was an Easter egg hunt. I wrote this book knowing full well that one day my kids will read it. As a child, my parents gave all the information — like, way too much. I’m kind of that way with my children. Mason and I have a really honest, open relationship. We talk about everything. So I know that one day I would tell them everything in this book too. People are like, “Don’t you think about your kids?” I’m like, “Of course I think about my kids. I think about putting them through junior high and high school and college.” There’s no promise that Eddie’s going to be able to do that. That’s all I think about. And I don’t mean that in a rude way, but I need to think about my responsibility as a parent and not be dependent on him since he’s not my husband anymore.”
Who has really talked more about what happened? “Eddie and LeAnn have done numerous sit-down after sit-down after sit-down. For the past four years, tell-all interviews — the crying, the “we love each other,” the 20/20, the Katie Couric, the whatever her name is…Giuliana Rancic. It’s, like, enough already. I’ve never done that. Do I have an answer if people ask? Yeah, I tell them to suck it. But I’ve never, ever put my side in full detail. So this book is my side of the story. The only reason it continually gets talked about is because they continually do these sit-down interviews about it. It’s something that’s four years old. And they need — I think we both need — to step away from it now. After the book and everything. Put it behind us and move on. Hopefully, they’ll have a child of their own and she’ll understand better what a proper boundary is for a stepmother and a mother.”
She’s on Lexapro and she loves it: “I do! I tried to go off it recently and realized I’m a big fat baby and I can’t get off of it. I tried! I started to get snappy and — I’m always bossy, but I was like, “Ooh, did I just say that?” Back on. Maybe I have a chemical imbalance, and I need it as part of my daily life. I find I’m a better person and a better mom. If a pill can make you better and healthy and happy, take it. Unless it’s Ecstasy. Then don’t.”
On the Us Weekly cover story claiming she cheated on Eddie: “I wish. I’ll take any of them on right now. I’m like, “Oh my god, they’re so hot.” They’re so stupid, because all it does is give my book more publicity. I just liked the picture, I was just happy to be on the cover. I was like, “Wow, that’s amazing!” Why now? Why four years later? I think it was a last effort to discredit me before the book came out. If these were true, they would have been out years ago. Like I said, I’ll have any of those guys — they’re all really hot. I’ll take ya! Call me!”
On living frugally now: “I’ve been very frugal. I now have a business manager who tells me what I can spend, what I can’t spend. I’ve got all the right people around me. And I’m doing pretty well now. We have a lot of other amazing business opportunities; I don’t even know what I can say yet. There are so many great things going on. A second offer for book number two just came in.”
Ideas for a second book: “I think it’s going to be really raunchy, for sure. I want to go with the Drinking and ___. Like a Drinking and Dating. Dating, the game has changed. It is so different than it was when I was single. I want it to stay along the same lines: funny, but serious, and then a good message. Ultimately, I think this book-writing is amazing for me. I love it. I hate downtime. That’s when I pick at my face. What do I do now? Get the needle and the tweezers! It’s so f–ked up. That’s what I do. That’s what I did yesterday. It’s nice to have responsibilities.”
There’s a crapload more if you go and read the whole thing – Brandi talks about her vadge and how she’s kind of tired about talking about her vadge. She talks about her kids and what they think of her and what they think of Eddie and the whole situation. It’s an interesting interview, and it gave me a fresh perspective on Brandi. I don’t think I realized before now that she’s sort of pleasantly neurotic! I also didn’t know she’s on antidepressants. This piece was full of gems!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
probably the truest thing Brandi has said in a while. A lot of stepmoms act like Leann and honestly, i think it has more to do with the dad than anything else. Eddie could tell Leann to pull back in order to keep the peace but we all know ediot won’t tell his showhorse anything and she’ll never concede until that youngest boy calls her mama. I think the oldest one has caught on to her game because he never seems that enthused about the photographers like the little one does.
That wonky face! I can’t believe Gerry Butler slept with this woman.
She looks ooold. And kinda crooked :/
+1
What´s up with her eyes in the below pics?
She looks like Columbo
My thoughts exactly. She used to be so pretty.
I love these comments. Because you know the people leaving them didn’t look this good at 20 and won’t look nearly so gorgeous at 40. lol
theskinny – I mean….who are you to judge what these people look like? Just because they aren’t ‘famous’ doesn’t mean they’re ugly. My mom is a few years older than Brandi and WAAAAAAY hotter, without the work. Plus at 22 – I look a hell of a lot better than she does, and I’m almost sure the previous posters do too.
Sure honey. Sure. LOL’S
Don’t feed the trolls, ladies 😉
They’ll just keep coming back like stay cats.
That’s so mean! She doesn’t look any older than he does, IMO.
She certainly looks better than the Mole Family. Those pictures of Brandi in the hot pink dress were taken when she was very sick. She had a fever and a sinus infection or something, and was on medication. There are lots more flattering recent pictures of her.
Didn’t Gerard bone some random in a port-a-potty? I don’t think he’s known for having high standards.
I’m not sure Brandi should be lecturing anyone about “boundaries”. Pretty sure this is the lady that told the world every single detail of her personal life, including her fave topic-her vadge surgery. Boundaries should include shielding your kids from personal information about their parents that they SHOULDN’T know.
Yeah, he’s Gerard ‘does it have a vagina?’ Butler. Not much else matters as long as it’s human. Agree with all you said.
Eddie/Leann leaked that very private bit of personal information on the surgery to one of Leann twitter friends, who then took it to social media and blasted it before the world. There are facts and there are opinions. Brandi had no intention and was embarrassed about it going public but put it in her book to remove an item L&E were blackmailing her with.
Yeah, let’s get this straight. Brandi owned up to the surgery because Leann had already told her Twitter fans. They then discussed it quite a bit on Twitter(this is several years ago), made comics about it, etc. You can have anger about her kids finding out about that, but you need to direct that at the correct person.
Please don’t with the stanning ok? Just stop.
There are plenty of Brandi stans on this board for you to reply to. If you think that Brandi didn’t tell the world all this shit to sell a book and seal her career as a popular reality TV star then I have a bridge to sell you.
I don’t care enough to have anger-I was simply making a point. I’m sure her kids will turn out fine but I’m not going to pretend this woman is Mother of The Year like y’all do.
No, Brandi didn’t divulge the vag surgery and the proof of that is a poster done by one of Leann’s fans/twitter followers (a graphic’s artist) made public over a year ago. Someone has the link.
Oh, please. Have you SEEN Gerard Butler lately?? He hasn’t been hot since 300.
I don’t know if he’s chased off all his fans yet, i thought they liked him because he was kind of dirty-hot. Like my love of Colin Farell. He’s dirty, but i would hit it. Every. Single. Time.
Gerard did an AMA on Reddit yesterday. Hugely popular. Lots of people drooling over him. It was an interesting AMA actually – I don’t think his popularity is waning. I suspect he also cares about a little more than how his looks are perceived.
I LOVE Colin Farrell. And if you’ve seen him lately than you know he doesn’t look anything like slouchy grubby Gerard. He is fit and muscular and looks really healthy!
@Claire- Your’re right Gerard doesn’t care how his looks are perceived-if he did he wouldn’t look so schlubby and be 15 pounds overweight. I actually like him – his interviews are always interesting. My point is that I find it ridiculous how people rag on women like Brandi’s looks but don’t seem to apply the same rules to someone like Gerard. Who let’s face it- with how he has looked for the past few years wouldn’t be getting anywhere NEAR the amount of tail he gets if it weren’t for three things: His money, his fame and his accent.
@Heidi
Brandi was more than happy to confirm it & brag how Eddie paid for it. She didn’t have to go there. It’s not a nose job, a denial or no comment would suffice.
@kitten, I read Brandi’s book and came away from it thinking the same things as you. It was shameless in a desperate sort of way. I was with her when the whole Ed/Leanne thing went down, but the more I hear from her the less I like her.
@Gemini 08
I KNOW! he looks like he never showers, but he’s so pretty and built like a house i would live in forever. I don’t even know what that means, but i mean every word of it! And he is a great dad. And works with handicapped kids. And never goes seeking praise for it. *swoon*
He’s obnoxious. not cute at all. She made a fool out of herself bragging about having sex with him.
Seriously? Gerry is a manwhore. She had his one requirement for sex: a vagina.
I think it’s just a combination of really terrible makeup and some temporary botox asymmetry. She looks much better in newer pics and in the video for the RHoBH reunion show.
I love her honesty, even when it gets her in trouble. I think what she said about Leann having her own child to understand boundaries is how she honestly feels (how any mother feels).
Ball(s) in Leann’s court now.
I like her honesty too but she hit way below the belt with that whole Adrienne surrogacy gate thing.
Well regardless of what you think of her, I like her, you can’t deny she is right about Leanne and boundaries with her children.
While I think it is great that LeAnne supposedly wants to be a loving part of those kids life, wish it felt more authentic, she does need to respect that she is not their mother. They are not “her boys” they are Brandi’s boys, and disrespecting that relationship is offensive.
A stepmother is just a dad’s wife.
LeAnne will never be their mother, never get any respect for anything she does with them, so suck it up princess and do what you want to do knowing that it will have to be TRUELY from your heart becasue no one will ever consider you more than their dad’s wife.
That’s life, deal.
That hardly seems fair. What do you want, for her to say, “no, I don’t want to help parent your spawn. You deal with it, I’m going to go write a song.”?
Brandi should feel lucky Leann cares about the kids.
Leann should feel lucky that Brandi didn’t knock her teeth out.
I’m a Brandi fan, but…being a stepmother is hard. It’s not always easy to know where the line is, especially if you’re in the kids’ lives on a frequent basis. There are going to be times when it’s just you, no bio mom or dad, with the kids, and then what? If the kids don’t respect you as an authority figure–if you’ve just stayed out of their lives as much as possible–you can’t control them. They have no respect for you.
If it were anyone other than single-white-female Rimes, I would give the benefit of the doubt. Would it be better not to treat kids well because they’re your step-kids?
(You can probably guess, this is an ongoing issue in my life! I have three step-kids who live with us 50% of the time.)
“A stepmother is just a dad’s wife” is not true in all cases. I’ve been raising my stepson since he was a baby. His biological mother has never been there, we have full custody of him and he has only seen her a few times. I make no distinction between him and my biological sons. I am NOT just his dad’s wife sorry.
That’s a really sad view of things. A step parent can be an important person in a child’s life. That’s not to say LeAnn is doing things correctly (she’s not), but the general attitude that a step parent doesn’t deserve respect for the time he/she puts in with their stepchildren is upsetting to me. I think Helen Hunt said it best that as a stepmother she’s more like a fairy godmother who kind of hovers around, offering encouragement, but not making the big decisions. It’s a difficult line to walk. LeAnn’s major misstep is not respecting the fact that the kids do have a mother and showing disrespect to that mother publicly. I’m sure she’s nice to the kids, buys them things, etc., but there’s a line she continually crosses and that’s not cool. I think she’s a not-so-great example of a step parent.
@Samtha: the problem though is that Brandi has helped Leann to see the line. She has made requests and Leann has stated plenty of times that she will do what she wants and who cares what Brandi says.
A step-parent can be a vital and important part of a child’s life. There has to be boundaries set and only time and respect to the biological parent will ease those boundaries.
I’m not saying ignore or not care for stepchildren. I’m saying that no matter how much you care or how much you do if there is a bio-mother anywhere near the picture you’d better be doing whatever you do for the kids without expecting any appreciation, acknowlegment or inclusion in major events or decisions becasue, in most cases, you will be bluntly reminded they are not your children.
So do it becasue you DO care for the children and love your spouse, but don’t expect full “MOM” status and don’t try to force it. Be a good perosn to those children becasue you are a good person.
Brandi should feel lucky, are you serious? These two morons started acting as though they were co-parents from day one, making out at the kids’ games, while on vacation (Brandi and Eddie hadn’t even divorced yet and the boys were expected to deal with Daddy’s girlfriend immediately) with Leann dry humping Eddie while a very small Jake sat next to Eddie, at the beach with Leann grabbing Eddie’s crotch…. they go to Brandi’s house and as a gesture of goodwill, they sit making out in front of Brandi and the kids. It’s rude to do that at anyone’s home in front of children, much less the ex-wife who’s making a kind gesture and in front of your own kids. Leann loves them so much that she sent them inside while stripping and making out with Liz. What do you call love? Buying them things and plastering their photos all over the internet? Selling them to the paps?
+1
This is really not true. Step-parents can be a wonderful part of a child’s life and a blended family can be a terrific support system. HOWEVER, boundaries ARE needed. Children can resent being parented by an adult who is not actually the parent (in situations where the bio parents are both on the scene). That will come out with serious behavioral problems later on. Also, kids KNOW when they are being used or played false. They might go along with it when they are younger, but it will definitely play a role in their behavior as they grow up.
It is the responsibility of the parent to set the boundaries – that’s Ediot.
(And I speak from experience, as my EX and I are both remarried. My SO is wonderful but I do draw the line of his authority very clearly. My EX does not, and as a result both of my kids have a conflicted relationship with their stepmother. They care about her but they also resent her. That can be a very hard cross to bear.)
I don’t know if we can say that step parents have to toe the line with the kids. Yes, I think they should be respectful and loving of the kids, but they shouldn’t have to worry about offending the kids…they’re kids. The worst thing in the world is for a kid to know that one “parent” can’t do anything to them.
This happened with my aunt. Her two boys, my cousins, are complete brats. I love them to death, enjoy being around them, but if I wasn’t related to them, I would not want to be around them at all. Theyre 10 and 15. This isn’t the same situation, but my aunt moved in with her boyfriend, about two hours away from where she usually lived. Now, my two cousins are rude and disrespectful, and my aunt told the boyfriend that he could not discipline them in any way.
keep in mind that she barely disciplines them herself, and when she does it’s for the most idiotic things. I mean, the youngest one called her a bitch for not getting him mcdonalds, and the most I’ve seen her mad is when the two ate her snack cakes. literally. So her boyfriend, whom she had a baby with soon after, who paid for their food, clothes, extra curriculars (sports, etc) wasn’t allowed to discipline them in any way, and they knew that. guess what? they treated him like crap. I would literally cringe whenever I heard them get mad at him for something.
Guess what? they broke up a few years after my youngest cousin, who’s now 5 was born- because of her bratty kids. it’s a neverending cycle.
You probably weren’t talking about this specifically, but I feel that a step parent shouldn’t have to tip toe around a kid that they’re helping to feed and clothe.
I think that the two parents need to come up with rules and agree on them, so the biological parent isn’t always dishing out punishment ie the kid knowing/feeling that the stepparent can’t do anything to them.
I have a different viewpoint, from what I’ve seen, and the fact that my “dad” is actually my stepdad. I’ve never met my biological dad, and my stepdad’s been with me since I was four.
Smurf, I get what you’re saying. My BIL is stepdad to my 2 nephews, and they’ve two different dads. He gets on well with my older nephew’s dad, who is involved in his life, but doesn’t take on a bigger role than he’s supposed to. He’s kind of like an uncle. My younger nephew had an awful dad, who died when he was six. He has a good relationship with my BIL, who calls him “my buddy” and takes on a slightly more fatherly role with him since his dad is gone. All this while having a child from a previous relationship and 2 with my SIL. He’s also a different race, which he doesn’t allow to be an issue. I guess what I’m saying is that it depends on the situation and people. If you’ve broken up a family, be humble about it. Don’t start sleeping with someone’s husband and then decide you love his kids and post their photos everywhere and have your mom act like their grandma and let your creepy friends feel like they’re family to them, as though they’re possessions you suddenly acquired and might share. Leann’s behavior is creepy and cruel, and she didn’t come into a relationship with a single dad who needed help parenting- she broke up a marriage with him and then tried to take ownership of two boys who already had a mother.
I love her on RHOBH, I love her honesty and I just love her!
Good luck with Eddie and Leann talking to her without the use of someone else. I remember her saying Eddie doesn’t talk to her and I doubt it’s going to happen after this book.
I wish the best for those poor boys with these “adults” in their lives.
I think “these poor boys” best chances of survival lie with their mother, brash and classless may she be.
She, at least, is not a compulsive liar, a home wrecker or a terminal narcissist. Harsh honesty is always easier to swallow than the “truth” documented by paps at the behest of a repulsive, scheming, washed up country star and her equally disgusting “bonus” husband. The boys will be able to sort out the real truth soon enough.
Thats exactly what i though when i saw her picture, that i cant believe gerry butler slept with her!
Making out at an Easter egg hunt? Disgusting.
I read they have done the rub-it-in-her-face make out sessions at the kids soccer games from day one of them appearing together.
” If a pill can make you better and healthy and happy, take it. Unless it’s Ecstasy. Then don’t.”
Damn I really like this woman.
As a Step Mom myself, I know that a Mother’s bond with her children is sacred and there should be boundries. But to say (JL) that I am just “Dad’s Wife”? I take those children to school, read to them, feed them and play with them. I have even changed thier diapers. I am not just “Dad’s Wife”. I am a co-parent that they love and respect. I feel sorry that you have such a jaded opinion on Step Mother. Not all of us are home wrecking evil women. Though I do have to say that LeAnn fits the control freak/self absorbed stereotype that gives people like me a bad wrap. Team Brandi in this case.
ITA! I spend so much of my time picking my step-kids up from school, getting them to school, driving them to lessons and practices, helping them with homework, making them meals… What is the alternative? Making the kids not feel welcome in their father’s home? Making them feel as if I don’t like them, or they’re an inconvenience? I don’t ever want them to feel left out while they’re with us, or as if they’re no longer part of the family.
In any case, I’m team Brandi, but there’s no need to vilify stepparents in general!
Jess,
I am also a stepmom and do exactly the same things you do for my stepdaughter. It really upsets me that everyone assumes the stepmom is a evil homewrecker! My step daughter loves me and I her and we have a wonderful relationship. Step parenting is a hard and often unappreciated job. Kudos to you (and the rest of us) who do it with love!
I don’t think anyone is saying that all step mothers are evil homewreckers. Most everyone is agreeing that there should be boundaries and women like you seem to be doing it correctly. There are the women out there that don’t seem to understand that like LeAnn. For any women out there that aren’t in that situation the closest I can explain it is the feeling you get when you see your man talking to a pretty girl by themselves x1000.
But in all actuality, should you divorce the dad you will be no longer in those kids lives unlike their mother who will be around forever. My mom is a stepmom and my sister always said she viewed my mom as an aunt type figure because she already had a mother. My sister is 16 years older than me and this was her best way of explaining the relationship when I was younger. It made sense.
My step father was more of a dad to me than my bio father was and I love him dearly. Step parents often don’t get respect. My 2nd husband is an awesome step father to my son!
@ Maria: I think that definition is one of the best for a step mom, when children have “normal” parents. A step mom is like an aunt that cares for them and treats them like their children when the parents are not around. I don’t agree that a step mom/father is co-parenting, unless the real parents are not doing their job properly or there is some special situation (like the children is mainly living with the step parent). It is obvious that in some cases these step moms/dads will do a hell of a better job than any of the real parents, but in a normal situation where both parents are responsible and loving, there is no need for a third parent. When I take care of my nephew he is not my son, although I do love him as if he would be my son. If people would have any idea of how this can screw up a child that is caught in the mixed “co-parenting” of not only two separated persons but also their partners they would maybe be more sensitive about it. I worked with children in a psychiatric hospital and there were so many cases of nice step moms that just didn’t know when to step out and their husbands wouldn’t be able to draw the line either.
Jess, as a stepdaughter, I’ve got to agree with you. Although my relationship with my stepmother is fundamentally different than my relationship with my stepmother, I do view her as a parental figure. She has been there to help take care of me and my brother for over 15 years, and she’s the mother to my brothers. She’s not just my father’s wife. Stepmoms (Some of them, at least) are amazing, and they’re put in a really tough position. I have a lot of respect for those that do it well.
Looks like there are two Pia’s afoot… I’m not going to say you “stole” my name but….
I am a mom to 2 children, one of which happens to have a step mom. While I don’t care for her (if she married my ex, how smart could she be????), I would never say she doesn’t play a large part in my son’s life. She cooks for him, does his laundry, helped with potty training, reads him books, helps with his homework, etc. She is a mom to him as well, and I respect that. She respects that there are boundaries and doesn’t rub their relationship or the fact that she does all of those things in my face. Good to all you other “step” moms that do this as well! You ARE appreciated!
On the other side of the spectrum, my (ex step) mom was/is more of a mother than my bio and adoptive moms were. She’s actually the person I consider my mom =)
Maybe my family’s just the weird one, but in my family, if they like you, you’re family for life. If they don’t then they’ll tolerate you until you die/or get divorced. I have an aunt whose ex-husband still comes to all of our family reunions, sits, drinks and hangs out with the family. Another one who divorced my second cousin has lived next door to my grandma for over twenty years.
if I was a child who had a stepmom, I would feel pretty hurt if I never saw her again….stepparents shouldn’t just be someone who is just a nanny.
I can’t wait for Bev Hills Housewives to be done in a couple weeks…enough with this trick!
Exactly. One trick pony this one.
Agree. This woman is a piece of sh*t in my opinion.
“whatever her name is…Giuliana Rancic” 😯
classic Brandi shade. what a scamp! 😉
I think no matter how thin you are, sometimes you need Spanx or undergarments to smooth lines under certain materials. The shiny pink dress is one of those materials, along with silk. I’m 128lbs (I lost 21 lbs this winter!), but I still use Spanx under certain dresses. Someone should tell Brandi this. Just sayin
I love her honesty. Its refreshing in comparison to all the HW’s.
Brandi Forever!
Plus, she’s freaking hot. She never looks as good on red carpets because she’s one of those women who look better in jeans and minimal make up. I’m so jealous. I have to have on half a Mac store to look presentable.
p.s. Kidding about the Mac store. I don’t want anyone to think I have sky high Texas Jesus hair and a putty knife face.
so passive aggressive…LOVE BRANDI
I know Brandi says inappropriate things at times but I still can’t help but like her. She is brutally honest and has a vulnerability about her at the same time. She has spoke to her neurosis before manifesting as picking her face. That along w/taking Lexapro.
I agree w/previous posters regarding her face. I want her to lay off the fillers. She doesn’t need them. It is always interesting to hear the “old” comments. I think she still is beautiful but then I am old too. LOL. It is all relative as you young pups will find out one day.
Personally I think Brandi looks great especially in comparison to some of the other housewives. She freely admits in her book what she does as far as her beauty routine goes. She is refreshingly honest about it. She is no different than most Hollywood ladies. I don’t think Botox and restalyne are out of the norm anymore.
There’s more to it than Leann not realizing she’s portraying worst aspects of the evil stepmother stereotype. She’s fully aware of what she’s doing and motivated to antagonize Brandi. It’s that simple!
Whatever Brandi is doing to her face isn’t achieving the desired results. She looks like she applied a plaster coat giving an embalmed mummy appearance. Natural and casual is a better look for her.
Brandi’s face is looking like the Joker. She needs to stop with that.
” “In the past, I’ve had [LeAnn and Eddie] over for Easter to my house. They were fully making out. It was an Easter egg hunt.”
Why am I not surprised? LeAnn and Eddie C have absolutely no class and a pure trash. They would be at a kid’s Easter Egg hunt at the home of the woman they both helped betray doing something foolish and tasteless like that.
Ugh.
I just hope it was all worth it for LeAnn. It’s all such a trainwreck.
My step-mother was completely inappropriate and did nothing but interfere with my parents attempts to co-parent my siblings and me. My Father stood by like a dunce and let her do it. She would hang all over my Father and cling to him at school and extracurricular events where my Mother was present. It was like it wasn’t about us children at all. More about her shoving her relationship with my Father, into everyone’s face. She used to insist that we were “her kids” and that it didn’t matter that she hadn’t given birth to us, we were still “hers”. Unlike my step-dad who respected my Father’s place in our lives and was actually very mature and selfless when it came to the whole situation, she instead didn’t respect the fact that we had come from another family, in the least. I know that being a step-parent is hard and that there are many great ones, who really love the kids, but when people are immature and narcissistic in general, it will translate into the way they step-parent. Anyone who makes everything about themselves the way LeAnn does, is going to step-parent in a selfish way, which she so clearly does. She constantly says she isn’t going to stop sharing “her happiness” in regards to her step-children, even though she’s been asked not to do it so publicly by their Mother. She has zero respect for boundaries and if she doesn’t get it together, she’ll end up like my step-mother. Childless and with step-children who want nothing to do with her because they figured out what a hag she was to their real Mother. If she and Eddie divorce, or something happens (heaven forbid) to Eddie, she’d have zero right to be around those boys at all. I don’t think she gets that. Just because she bought and is paying for their Dad, doesn’t mean she bought them too. I apologize the the length of this post, but step-parents with no respect for boundaries, really hits home for me in a big way.
See that just it, there are step parents who are active wonderful co-parents and then there is LeAnn.
Even bio parents can make things all about themselves and their happiness never suspecting or understanding how that weighs on their interpersonal relationships with their children.
Parenting is a mo’fo.
Absolutely. Real/bio (I don’t know what to call them) parents can be horrible for kids as well if they are narcissistic, selfish people. Parenting is the most ridiculous balancing act because you have to be selfless to a point, but can’t lose yourself in the process. LeAnn is all about herself in EVERY situation. Her affection for the boys comes across as superficial and she uses them as a weapon against their own Mother. I’ve seem both good and bad step-parenting in action, so I would never paint all steps with the same brush. LeAnn’s missteps are just so glaring because they are constant, blatant and she outs her inappropriateness herself on Twitter and through media she pays for herself. She’s one messed up chick.
I like Brandi, but this “We’re going to move on right after I’m done publishing a book and promoting it” is kind of crap. That said, I hope she makes bank so she doesn’t have to depend on her nasty ex to support her boys.
Ediot can’t support himself much less his sons. He is the weakest/missing link.
She’s starting to look like Dina Lohan. A younger, healthier Dina Lohan, but that’s still not a good thing, is it?
I love Brandi. I respect her honesty and I like the fact that she is honest about her own mistakes or issues.
What a stupid reason it is to have a baby so she’ll understand boundaries. Try boundaries with the Twitter account first. They’re driving me to drink – want to come along 🙂
LeAnn has no genuineness in regards to unselfish love towards Brandi’s children (i.e. pimps them out at every opportunity) or anyone else for that matter. Brandi’s children are just props for LeAnn to make her look other than the narcissitic soulless famewhore she really is.
I love the honest and open relationship Brandi has with her eldest son. I think the long term benefits of Mason knowing who Eddie and LeAnn are and what they’ve done are much better than one day waking up to discover his childhood and step mother’s affection were all a lie.
I think it’s different if the bio mom is absent/deceased. Since that’s not the case here, LeeAnn really needs to back off.
“Of course I think about my kids. I think about putting them through junior high and high school and college.” There’s no promise that Eddie’s going to be able to do that. That’s all I think about.”
Haha so true, this guy has only shown that he’ll throw over anyone to get what he wants, that includes his kids. Love the shade, Eddie might just blow up his current marriage with more waitresses, or he might spend all Leann’s money on vacations and motorcycles, none left for college.
“Hopefully, they’ll have a child of their own and she’ll understand better what a proper boundary is for a stepmother and a mother.”
Yes, when he leaves her for the new Scheana, who tries to parent Leann’s kids as her own. I love the shade here, because it’s so true. Leann is such a narcissist that she would only talk about parental boundaries if she was a parent with her own kids to love. Instead she is a “bonus” or show parent (not a real stepmom.)
Agree!
You go Brandi – hold that book down by your rejuvenated lady parts and stick that leg out! Classy.
I was on Cipralex, which is Lexapro. Large amounts of Fish Oil and Magnesium were the only things that helped my withdrawal side effects while coming off. Those, and taking progressively lower dosages of the drug over a period of months. I remember feeling like hell at the time.
She looks like an old lady trying to be young in that photo. She needs to quit messing with her face, which used to be pretty. And pick a better dress.
She keeps saying that she’s going to quit talking about them, but she never does. It’s her claim to fame.
+1,000,000
When I think of these two woman and Eddie Ciprian in the middle I think “two boobs and a pant-load.”
We’ve all become numb and almost accept LeAnn and Eddie’s abhorrent behavior as normal for them so it is not shocking that Brandi graciously invites them to an Easter egg hunt at her home and they spend the time making-out in front of the children and the mother whose home they destroyed.
It’s no surprise that LeAnn continues to press her lawsuit against a Special Needs teacher with 6 children in hopes of financially ruining that family because of LeAnn’s petty and vindictive nature. Anyone supporting LeAnn Rimes is as ugly as she is.
So true, also Leann is suing Brandi’s dentist, who Leann stalked and went to for 3 years before turning around and suing him because she didn’t like the results. Maybe she looked in the mirror and still saw herself instead of Brandi and it enraged her.
The dentist and the Smileys should get together and counter sue Leann for stalking them and harassing them in her quest to be Brandi.
This +1,000
These pink-dress pictures of Brandi have got to go. They’re terrible!
I think it would behoove her to drop the public LeAnn feud. I know it’s still going to be there, and Leann is still going to talk/sing/tweet whatever, but Brandi needs to market herself as something other than “the jilted ex-wife of Leann Rime’s new husband”. She’s in a spot where she can be successful on her own without having to resort to talking about the affair, co-parenting, whatever. I enjoy reading about her other shenanigans, but whenever she talks about Leann I roll my eyes and wish she’d just stop.
It’s already been established that Leann is crazy so she shouldn’t waste her time talking about it when she could be talking about herself instead.
Unfortunately my past with my ex is much like Brandi’s. I caught him IN bed with her while we were still together & then several weeks later found out I was pregnant with our 2nd child. There are a few things that I will always understand from Brandi’s perspective: 1- The “new” woman is the one who has an excuse for everything in the man’s life and constantly says how he is “misunderstood”. 2- Regardless of how far Brandi has moved on, there is always a rancid “taste” when dealing with the other couple (mine was more self disgust than anything). The best thing ever that I came to terms with was that I would NEVER understand them because I would NEVER behave that way. 3- As soon as someone starts saying “I’m a good person” or “I’m a great parent” there is always that little voice in the back of my head that says “Who are you trying to convince? Me or yourself?” I TRY to be the best person & parent that I can be, but I have no need to rewrite history to sleep at night.
And yes, my ex’s (now) wife tries to over parent my kids & constantly tries to throw shade by ripping on me over me “forcing” him to pay the “ridiculous” amount of $349 for two kids. BUT my kids are now 14 & 16 and they aren’t stupid, they know damn well that their dad & stepmom are narcissistic, self-indulgent people.
And I’ve been the stepparent too, as well as my current husband truly being the one to raise the kids (they were 4 & 6 when we got together). Parenting in and of itself is a hard job. Everything is a crap-shoot & all you can do is hope & pray that you got it right. And realize that by moving on & letting go is best for YOU & your kids. It took awhile but I can say that the “homewrecker” was the best thing that ever happened to me. 😃
Well that’s a little disingenuous of Brandi isn’t it? She knows perfectly well LeAnn will never learn boundaries. Ever. I suspect Brandi is only saying that because she knows Eddy is much more likely to dump LeAnn for yet another boney boobrack blonde if kids come into the picture. Same as what happened in her own marriage to Eddy. Brandi, your bitterness is showing.
I’m not saying ignore or not care for stepchildren. I’m saying that no matter how much you care or how much you do if there is a bio-mother anywhere near the picture you’d better be doing whatever you do for the kids without expecting any appreciation, acknowlegment or inclusion in major events or decisions becasue, in many cases, you will be bluntly reminded they are not your children.
So do it becasue you DO care for the children and love your spouse, but don’t expect full “MOM” status and don’t try to force it. Be a good perosn to those children becasue you are a good person.
Step parenting is a bitch, the boundries are many and varied depending on the situation. Nothing though should stop one from doing the best they can to love and care for their stepchildren (who are in a much harder situation) as much as their parents will allow without causing issues.
My brother is a stepfather and he is loved and is considered a father by the boys, who also love their own father, and my brother shows the ex-husband more respect than his own wife does her ex. They don’t call my brother dad, but look to him as a father figure because they have primary custody.
My sister’s husband is a stepfather to her first child and is called dad, also, because he wants to call him dad. They had two children and he didn’t want to be different. He has lived with his stepson since the age of two and is more hands on day to day in raising him and does consider him his son, no different than his children. The father is in a neighboring town an hour away and sees him every other weekend. BUT my brother-in-law is very respectful of the father and they get along, because nothing is rubbed in the other’s face.
LeAnn’s behavior as far as the boys with her tweeting online is horrible trying to rub it in the mother’s face from the beginning.
All circumstances are different.
Her face!!! ahhhhhhh, that’s what nightmares are made of, Nicole K gets called out on here because of he plastic face but Brandi looks so much worse, her face looks like it’s melting with wonky eyes!
I just came on here to say that I think I am finally exhausted of these three!
I still think Brandi is a top chick but this whole story has finally loosened its grip over me..he he.
Good luck to the three of them. LeAnn will always be a psycho, Ed will always be a no good grifter, and thankfully, Brandi is finally gonna be ok, thanks to her book’s success.
Justice has been served peeps.
The End.
I’m sick of them, but it’s not the end for the boys or Brandi. Leann is still selling them to paps, posting their photos everywhere, dry humping their sperm donor in front of them (apparently lack of self control equals love), and acting like a parent with no brains (putting Jake on a bike he couldn’t ride with no helmet on a public street and taping it for public consumption while screaming at him to ‘go faster’ so she could finish videoing him for Twitter). God forbid one of the boys gets hurt, everyone will say to Brandi, “Why didn’t you…..” when she has been living it and saying it forever.
Having a child isn’t going to make Leann understand the proper boundaries of a stepmother or mother.It’s only going to get worse because then she will be tweeting about how her “bonus sons” felt their sister kick and named the child. Leann will cross boundaries even when she has a child because she wants every aspect of Brandi’s life, her enablers reward her for this bad behavior, and Brandi hasn’t established any consequences for Leann’s actions(ie-making Leann remove the photos and video footage of her children from Leann’s fan website since Eddie threatened to sue Brandi if the boys made cameos on her show and Leann is using that site for work; Leann not allowed to attend the boys’ sporting events if she is going to invite AKM-GSI, SplashNews, or Fame/Flynet).
Leann fears that Eddie still has feelings for Brandi and Eddie is still trying to punish Brandi for not taking him back. Until Leann and Eddie learn to deal with their issues, Leann and Eddie are not going play nice with Brandi. Leann will hire her mouthpieces to write articles saying that they are at peace with Brandi, but behind the scene, Leann will continue to make the passive aggresive digs at Brandi and encourage her fans to harass Brandi.
Instead of saying that she will stop talking about Leann and Eddie after her book tour is over she should say that she will stop talking about Leann and Eddie when Leann removes every photo and video of her children from her website/twitter & Mateo’s instagram. That would then hush the media who criticize her for talking about her experience.
You are so right in your evaluation. Brandi is a lovely woman but extremely exploitable when it comes to Eddie and Leann. She should have stated she would keep up the pressure as long as Leann and Eddie act like nincompoops.
Brandi has dealt with the nightmare for years and has more to go since her boys are young. If we’re sick of it, I can’t imagine how she feels. However, she needs to answer briefly, honestly and make a point when doing so: “My concern is for my boys’ safety as Leann calls paps as to their whereabouts and tweets private information about them.” And she needs to lay off the surgeries; it’s aging her. Still like her, though. As for Leann, if she feels free to put Brandi’s son on a bike he can’t ride with no helmet on a public street or tweet the boys’ school, Brandi needs to get legal on them. It is beyond enough.
I like her too but yes putting a bit of a filter on saying everything she thinks or feels, wouldn’t hurt! And no more fillers/botox or whatever the deal is with her face! eek !
Does anyone know how many books Brandi has sold thus far? Hopefully enough to get her children through school.
Uh, having children does not magically resolve major personality issues, or relationship patterns. Leann could have ten children and still have poor boundaries with Brandi’s kids…
Hey, I know Brandi in reality isn’t going away soon, but geez, I’m soooooooooooooo sick of her already. There’s nothing I like about this woman, not her looks or her style, or her continuous blogging in the press. Her husband left her and she just can’t get over being dumped. But it’s much more about who she really is that I cannot stand…..pleeze, wake me when it’s over LOL.
Agreed! She’s way overexposed.
wanting leeann to have a child for her to realize the boundary of being a mother and stepmother….how conciliatory of brandi to the person whose obvious action…she wanted brandi to vanish to replace her stepsons mother to please eddie and look good in public…even wanted to look like her.. i believe that up to now eddie still loves brandi because his paramour now his wife love everything about his first wife..leeann looks like brandi clone.
It’s Eddie who can’t get over being dumped and Leann who can’t get over the fact that she was the default. Brandi has every right to talk about her experience, especially when Leann is paying for fluffpieces describing how she cried because of the support(ie- standing ovation) she received after she sung Borrowed in London.
It’s bizarre to me that people are actually complaining about quotes that come out of a book tour. That’s the point. To do as many interviews as possible, spill tidbits, and funny quotes, in order to create interest for the book.
This is a gossip site, you would think these posters would be familiar with how press tours work. The country is huge with lots of media markets to visit.
Anyway, to Kaiser’s point about how Brandi is pleasantly neurotic, I thought the same when reading that interview. There was also something on the BH Housewives that gave me the same impression, but that moment has escaped me, sorry. Back to the original point. It’s endearing that she is so honest even with the embarrassing parts of life. Especially when LeAnn sees fit to exploit those for her amusement.
And really, to the poster who claims her surgery is her fav topic? How lame. That just doesn’t compute on any level. Especially when she says she hid and cried when that hit the news cycle. And never mind, her husband insulting her kitty so badly Brandi didn’t want to repeat it. Or LeAnn exposing the news to strangers and enjoying the harassment Brandi suffered online.
Seriously, you would have to be just as callous as LeAnn to claim that surgery is Brandi’s favorite topic. Hopefully, you were just being flip on a gossip site, because….really? Being asked a question for a book tour doesn’t equate loving the topic.
And sadly, I don’t think LeAnn will have kids. I think she is perfectly fine trying to steal Brandi’s. She knows that Eddie cheated when Brandi was pregnant and insulted the kitty results. Do you really think LeAnn is going to risk it? I don’t.
I kinda like her…she seems like she would be a fun girlfriend. And she’s right about providing for her kids; she certainly can’t rely on the ex.