Kelly Bensimon went out jogging yesterday, and I found two things interesting about the photos: one, Kelly’s body doesn’t look crazy, and she actually looks healthy and two, her face isn’t jacked up on her mind’s insanity. Of course, Kelly is still pretty crazy, so don’t let this photo fool you. She recently sat down for an extended interview with Out Magazine (full piece here), and this woman… there is very little hope for her. At this point, I’m just praying that it’s the tequila talking. Instead of actually attempting to put any of this in context – because, why should I bother, Kelly doesn’t THINK in context – I’m just going to do random highlights:

And you were just recently at the Mohegan Sun Casino – what was that about?
I was at Mohegan Sun for the opening of their Mohegan Sun Days event, it’s their [monthly] GL — GLBT night. I always think that sounds like BLT. It was just a really, really fun group of people. Everyone was just having good clean fun… dancing like crazy. I was dancing with everybody and it was just a lot of fun to be in an environment like that where everyone was having a blast and no one was like trying to be too cool for school.

And you rode on the Gay Men’s Health Crisis float in New York City Pride this year?
I did. Yeah it was an incredible honor. I mean to be invited by GMHC to be on their float for the gay pride is up there in terms of one of the biggest honors for me. I have an initiative, which is safe sex. I have a 12-year-old daughter and, you know, basically she has been learning all about sex in school and so — not that I am encouraging her to have sex — but I am encouraging her when she does have sex to think and to be smart about the choices that she is going to make. So then speaking with GMHC about safe sex and also just about bullying, I learned so much about how alternative lifestyles get bullied so much and I was really disturbed by that to be honest with you because I have been a model for a long time and I have had so much respect for people that have alternative lifestyles. I mean it’s just the they want to live and I don’t have any problem with that. I think that’s great. I want people to celebrate themselves.

And these days you’ve got your hands in a lot of things – the jewelry line, the writing. Can you talk about what’s coming up?
We just finished the third season of The Real Housewives Of New York City and my jewelry line just launched. I am in the process of working on a really, really new project that is confidential and I can’t tell you about, but its going to be very, very exciting. It’s coming out in a couple of weeks and it’s a really big deal for me. I am going back to my roots and going back to being an editor, which is exciting. And that’s the biggest news for the fall. Kelly goes back to work. And I am really excited about exposing myself to the world and what I love, which is art, entertainment, architecture, people that are doing interesting things.

So it’s on the media side. You’re going to be getting back into more of that?
Yeah. That’s where I belong, that’s what I am good at. I am not good at fighting. I’m not a good fighter.

What’s your take — that this season of RHONY was just a “normal” season for you?
It’s my job to create content and they asked me to be on the show because they wanted me to legitimize the brand and they wanted a real socialite. They wanted a real New Yorker, if you will, on the show. And it was a great opportunity for me because it’s obviously got everything that I love, whether it’s my safe-sex initiative or antibullying or working on my jewelry line or just having my books be — literally, I mean, you can’t even get any of my books anymore — they are not available. So, it’s been just unbelievable for that and to put my name on the map. Whether or not you watch the show, everybody knows my name, so that’s a huge honor and I am really grateful to Bravo for exposing me and exploiting my name like that.

What comes across in this show is that you’re one of the women who doesn’t participate as much in the self-editing process. What you see is what you get —
I would never edit. That’s what everyone says to me, that’s the biggest complaint. They are like “Why aren’t you using it as a vehicle? Why aren’t you showing a certain side so you can maximize on it.” And I’m like “What for?” If you are going to say something mean to me, I would rather cry and scream at you and say I am not going to put up with that then be disingenuous and create an emotion or emote an emotion that’s not real. I don’t take my job home. Like I tell my kids, we’re not affected by it. The rest of the world might be, but we are not.

Gotcha. So you are sort of less concerned about the way that things come across on TV —
If I was concerned, on the reunion show, I would have been engaged in the conversation. I mean I was so bored by everything I was just like, “The conversation is over.” We already had this so I am not going to talk about talking. I think that was clear to everybody they were like Uh-oh…

Are you interested in having your own show?
It’s funny that you ask that because my kids were saying that the other day. They are like, “We want to have your own show. People need to see who Kelly Bensimon really is.” The one reason I would like to do my own show is because I am exposed to so many unbelievable people and so I would use my show as a vehicle to explore all these different people that I know, whether it would be Richard Meier to the man that helps me with my computers. I really want people to understand that brilliance isn’t about a financial amount, it’s about the state of mind and I happen to know an incredibly amazing group of people. I would like to be the vehicle to expose all those amazing people. I mean that’s my one reason why I love working for magazines. Everybody has a great story — I would love to be the vehicle for that. Would it be necessarily about Kelly Killoren Bensimon? It’s never really about me. It’s always about the other people because that’s what I find interesting. I don’t really find what I do really interesting.

So it sounds like more of talk-show format —
No, not a talk-show format. I’d rather have them come in and help me train my dog. The dog trainer that I have is amazing with animals and I’d rather have you learn about him and then me going and meeting a man that’s opening a new restaurant or someone that’s working in branding or someone that’s in fashion. I would rather have you come in and walk in my shoes and see all these amazing people. Do I need to be a comic relief for them? No. Can I be a vehicle for them to show how amazing people are? Yeah, I would love that. But not really like a talk show. I would rather have it be more organic.

Right, but that’s obviously not most of the airtime that you get ––
Well, most of the airtime is with these women that I don’t even know and it’s like “I don’t even understand what you’re fighting with me about.” I don’t get it. Mostly I’m just like “Huh? What?” And then I look like I’m an airhead because I’m not engaging in stuff that I don’t understand. I don’t want to — it’s not like we are talking about politics, we are not talking about something that’s going to affect my kids or my business, so therefore I don’t want to talk about.

So you’re just sort of disengaged and disinterested in what’s going on around you on the show?
It’s not interesting, it’s not like people are talking about their real feelings. It’s always about random facts that are disconnected and I am always just like, “Guys, we need a script.” Because we need to stick to something like “Today we are going to talk about kids, tomorrow we are going to talk about dogs, tomorrow and the next day we are going to talk about work” — so there is a common conversation so we all know what we are talking about versus “I don’t like your hair.”

Teaching as opposed to just fighting?
It’s not like these women aren’t smart. They all are exposed to such amazing people and I don’t understand why we are not exploring how great we are — we would rather exploit how bad we are.

Do you think the ratings would be as good?
You can still fight, but you could learn, too. It’s called back-door education. Why do we have to be all flowers and lollipops? Why can’t it be like fighting, but we are actually learning? That’s called back-door education. I would love that.

[From Out Magazine]

F-cking hell, this crazy, CRAZY woman. My favorites? “Well, most of the airtime is with these women that I don’t even know and it’s like “I don’t even understand what you’re fighting with me about.” I don’t get it. Mostly I’m just like “Huh? What?” And then I look like I’m an airhead because I’m not engaging in stuff that I don’t understand.” I think that says it all. Reading a Kelly Bensimon interview is like trying to translate Lindsay Lohan’s crack tweets into Latin.

Kelly Bensimon on July 28, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.