The Daily Mail has a new interview with Real Housewives of New York’s Ramona Singer, 59. Her quotes reads like a drunken bragging session about how gorgeous she is. I don’t watch RHONY and my opinion of this woman is based on the handful of times I’ve paid attention to her, but she sounds just about as sheltered and clueless as most of the real housewives. They become sort-of interchangeable at times.
Ramona, 59, had breast augmentation two years ago and she’ll tell you about it. The Daily Mail has a comparison photo of Singer in a bikini before and after her new boobs and she looked better “before” to me, but I’m smaller on top and I like it that way. I hear so many horror stories from my friends with big boobs (like Kaiser) about how it’s hard to exercise or find clothing that fits right. At least that’s what I tell myself because bigger boobs are not in my future. Singer has surely had a ton of Botox and fillers in her face, but she’s proud of the fact that she hasn’t had invasive plastic surgery, which sounds just like what her co-star Bethenny Frankel said recently, although Frankel was probably lying. Here’s what Ramona told the Daily Mail:
says she looks better at 59 thanks to carefree new outlook, strict fitness routine, hair extensions and a boob job.
‘I’m feeling really good. A weight has been lifted off me and that’s reflected in my face and my spirit and my body,’ she tells DailyMail.com.
The Bravo star said she had her breasts enhanced because she wanted to ‘feel sexier,’ but she has no intention of going under the knife again.
‘Why would I have anything planned? I look the best I’ve ever looked,’ she said. ‘I think I look great, I’m very happy.’
The star revealed that her plastic surgeon was reluctant to perform the boob job on her and tried to talk her out of it.
‘I’ve always had great breasts,’ she revealed. ‘My legs and my breasts have always been great features.’
‘In fact my doctor, she thought I was nuts, she didn’t even want to touch my breasts.
‘She was like, ‘Are you kidding? You have gorgeous breasts and your breasts are better than most 25-year-olds. What are you doing?…’
‘I did it for me… I wanted to feel sexier,’ she said.
‘I wanted to be able to look just as good with a brassiere as without one.
‘And before, because I am over 50, let’s face it gravity hits. It wasn’t hitting that badly, but I wanted to look perkier. I wanted to be perky the way I was in my 30s.’
‘And it made me feel good,’ she added.
The reality star said she saw no issue with getting plastic surgery over 50.
‘Most women have had their breasts done two or three times already,’ said Ramona.
‘There are girls getting their breasts done at 17,18,20 – it’s crazy. So for me to wait until after 50, so be it. Why not?’
Ramona denied having invasive work done on her face.
‘Most girls my age over 50 have had the complete facelift, the neck lift and I don’t really need that,’ she said. ‘I’m into working out and staying fit.’
No, most “girls” her age have not had a complete facelift or multiple boob jobs. Maybe most of the women she knows have. Maybe in their group of moneyed women and reality stars they’re so used to looking at frozen faces that they become normal, but they’re still noticeably different to the rest of us. I know maybe 3-5 people who have had work done to their faces, and maybe 10 people who have had Botox. It’s still rare in my part of the country. It’s kind of scary to think that there are places where teens are getting new boobs in high school and are stopping by strip malls to get their lips plumped but I know those places exist and it happens. When you put it in that context, it’s easy to say “Oh this boob job is no biggie, this Restylane and Botox is nothing, you should see what Sharon had done. She got a whole new face.”
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She looks good, I guess, but her hair looks ridiculous.
But she always looks….surprised?
I mean, we have the face we get, but Idon’t think anyone goes into a doctor’s office and says “Give me Ramona Singer’s___________”
I think she has had a bad eye job, like too much lid skin removed. There was a woman in the U.S. who in 2011 sued her surgeon post-eye job because she couldn’t close her eyes. Ramona is teetering on the edge here, and the result is that it makes her look slightly insane.
But her breasts are so spectacular, she has the breasts of a 25-year-old, her breasts are amazing, her breasts are her best feature, but her breasts could be better, but she did it all for herself because, breasts.
Did I cover everything here?
I don’t even know who she is but man, she’s f*cking insufferable.
Maybe she and Goop can hang out together what with their 25-year old stripper parts…
She has Nic Cage crazy eyes.
This nitwit should spend a little more time on what’s inside of her soul, rather than just the outside.
I know one person who had a nose job, and that’s it. I don’t even know people who have botox. People here are more likely to do facials and stuff like that.
She doesn’t look bad, but she would look better without the hair extensions and less severe makeup.
Me too, and it was in high school to correct a really unfortunate convex bump on her nose. Didn’t go overboard, just shaved down the one part so her profile was straight. She never talked about it and was a bit embarrassed (but really happy with the result) if people noticed.
That’s it. I don’t know of anyone else. But I live in the country where people don’t have a lot of money and even less time for surgery and recovery for frivolous reasons. One friend of mine even cuts her hair into a mullet/bob thing because it works the best under the baseball cap she wears all day and she can do it herself. She knows it looks terrible but she says since her husband doesn’t care then she doesn’t care. That’s actually a pretty common attitude around here.
She’s not a “girl.” She’s a woman. That’s one of my very few knee-jerk feminist reactions.
I so agree. It reminds me of SATC and how Carrie always used to call herself and her friends ‘gals’.
The older they got the more cringey it sounded.
What is wrong with being a woman???
It’s not ‘un feminist’ to refer to yourself as a girl. Rather it’s unfeminist to police the terms that someone uses to identify themselves, within reason.
Is she not a feminist if she calls her friends her b**ches? Is she not a feminist if she calls herself hunty? Like can we only use prescribed ‘age-appropriate’ names to describe ourselves?
Sorry for the ssoapbox. I have a test today that I’m verry nervous about. I should be studying!
The term is infantilising. Referring to yourself as a girl implies a (possibly subconscious) degree of fragility and needing to be looked after.
It’s telling that becoming a man is described in a positive way- ‘man up’ ‘real man’ etc. and yet women are still encouraged to be ‘girls’.
But men also refer to “going out with the boys.” Can society & all the SJWs please stop telling us how we should speak? Sheesh. It’s reached the point of a collective mental illness. I’m 57 & hear my friends refer to “the girls” often.
@Maum
Oh, you’re reading way too much into it. I think it’s a generational thing. My friends and I are grown women. No one wants to be “looked after” or is in the slightest way fragile or infantile. We say it’s a girl’s night or I’m going out with the girls as sort of a jokey term of affection. We know we’re not girls. We don’t want to be girls. It’s just an expression. And we don’t need your judgey permission to use it.
Eh, it sounds a bit odd in context, but whatever. If she wants to use the term “girls” then she can use it. We use “boys” to refer to grown men in certain contexts so I don’t see what’s so wrong about it. I tend to call people girls or guys (or dudes) instead of women or men, because those are the common colloquial terms where I grew up. I imagine that’s different depending on your age and region.
Instead of picking apart semantics, I’d rather focus my attention on the fact that women are not allowed to age and need to alter their physical appearance to please…… somebody, I suppose. I’ve never figured out exactly who. The idea that aging is a bad thing for women really needs to go away. It’s so ingrained that a 59 year old woman, who should be out of f*cks to give about dumb beauty standards, is still playing the no-win “pretty game”. And she’s far from alone.
Oh me too. I utterly hate that.
A 59 year old woman referring to herself and women her age as “girls”. Sad.
I find that relatively common around where I live… in older women. Not in a childish way either, I think it’s a local thing for the most part. I remember my great aunt Vi saying “Well, the girls and I are going to Bar Harbour for the weekend” or “the girls are coming over to play cards”. My grandmother and their mother “gram” both used the phrase as well. And this is like… small town Nova Scotia.
But even though I’ve heard it so often, whenever someone that’s in the public eye uses it, it weirds me out. I think I just associate it as a term of endearment that my family uses, and whenever someone ‘an outsider’ uses it, it throws me.
There’s a difference, to me, in saying “the girls and I” are doing something and in stating “Most girls over the age of 50. . . “.
I agree with you both that there’s nothing wrong with saying it but there’s a difference in the way she used it.
I know all kinds of women who jokingly refer to themselves and their friends as “girls.” There is nothing wrong with it. People are too critical. Geez – relax. There are more important things to worry about than something trivial like that.
Thank you. So petty.
Ramona definitely isn’t joking. I mean, she can say it all she wants, but it’s not cute and charming like she thinks she is. And let’s get real, we’re talking about an article about Ramona Singer. The “more important things to talk about” ship has already sailed 🙂
Perhaps a 59-year-old woman referring to herself as a girl explains the preoccupation with looks and surgery?
Her choice of words is weird to me. I’m 23 and no longer consider myself to be a “girl”. I am a woman. A 59-year-old man would never refer to himself or men his age as a “boy”, why women do?
They would probably say I am going out the boys/or guys I suppose. I don’t hear men say I am going to the pub with the men? or men. I don’t know she doesn’t look bad though I have only watched that show 1 or 2 times they are tiring I can’t keep up.
Actually, men do refer to themselves and their friends as boys. It’s pretty common where I’ve lived. Not something to fight about. People have the right to name themselves.
I have no idea who this is, but I object to a 59-year-old calling herself a girl.
Also, I’m almost 29 and I have never had any kind of plastic surgery, aside from a plastic surgeon putting in stitches along the side of my face following a car accident so as to reduce potential scarring.
It’s not really anything to pat yourself on the back for, lady – and I live in an area where a significant of women do have surgery or regular Botox/filler appointments.
Dear Ramona, whoever you are, most girls become women at age 18 and no, most women of 59 have not had multiple boob jobs or face work. Perhaps most girls of 59 have but I have never met a 59 year old girl.
Anyone else really good at spotting fake boobs? Never saw any in real life but from reality tv, kim k and all the rest of the meaningless gossip sites i’m on,I’ve become really good at it.
I don’t know if I’m “good” at it, but I’ve spotted a few. Went to Waikiki once and omg they’re everywhere. They…….. don’t move right, if you know what I mean. I asked a male friend once what they felt like (he’d had a gf with them for a hot minute) and he said “pretty crappy to be honest, all hard and strange”.
I think more people have work done than we realize. My MIL has breast implants and I had no idea until I was daydreaming about getting them and she told me. I have a friend that had work done and if I hadn’t known about it, you’d never be able to tell.
True. Two of my closest friends had their eyes done and you would never know. They look better but not that different. Good doctors.
As a person who is about this woman’s age, here’s a list of “work” I’ve either had done or considered doing.
Breasts: Kaiser doesn’t lie about the drawbacks of large breasts. Which is why I considered a reduction when I was 16. The plastic surgeon (who had already done some work on me – see below) told me to lose 10 pounds and come back after I had kids. (I wasn’t thinking about having kids at the time, so I didn’t come back. Now, I’m used to them.)
Face: Last year, I had a little facial work done after we discovered (when bending down to see what my cat was growling at through the dark screen door) that our cat has redirected feline aggression. My daughter says the scars make me look “like a really cool supervillain.” (Note: The cat still lives with us and we love her.)
Plastic surgery: When I was six and my finger (severed in a door) was reattached.
So, no, Ramona. “Most girls my age” have not had a face lift.
I think I’m going to have breast reduction if I can lose ten pounds. I had breast cancer, and now my right breast is half a bra size smaller than my left. It’s not that noticible’ but I liked the smaller one better. I’m tired of having to buy my shirts two sizes too big and having them altered. So I think I’ll go half a size smaller than my smaller one. Lol am I crazy? I think it would be awesome.
Not crazy at all. I used to wish my boobs were bigger, but now I can’t imagine lugging around anything more. They get in the way and cause problems even though they’re small, so any bigger would make life much harder. Shirts don’t gap, I don’t have to wear bras if I don’t want to, and they don’t hurt my back.
The gap. Grrrrr. So tired of it.
I’m not trying to make light of your situation GNAT and I do think you should get the reduction but I can’t help but wish that having big boobs was my problem lol.
Yes, it’s definitely a nonproblem problem. I liked my breast size for most of my life, but I guess I’m just tired of hauling them around. Lol
I definitely think breast reduction is a good thing, and would have done it if I’d started to have horrible back problems, etc. Also, totally agree about the gap. Finding something that fits in the shoulders and buttons has been a lifelong challenge. If you can afford it or get it paid for by insurance and you want to do it, GNAT, you totally should. Also, if you haven’t already, find a high-end special needs bra store and go there. Oh, and if you haven’t already, find a copy of “Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front” by Susan Seligson. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139074.Stacked
Yes to all the commenters above I too think a grown woman calling herself a girl is a strange choice of words but she is not the only one on RHNYC to do so. Carole Radziwill also did it recently when talking about how her man love whose a vegan taught a girl to love vegan food. I literally did a double take at the TV. Both of them are way past the point of girl and I am surprised you didn’t use the photo of Ramoner doing her best Bette Davis in whatever happened to Baby Jane curtsy, her crazy eyes made her look totally nuts in that picture.
You’re correct. This one is bat sh!t crazy.
I watched the show last night and said to my partner that you could play a drinking game out of the number of times they referred to themselves as ‘girls’ except you’d be bombed ten minutes into the show. ‘Just us girls’, ‘girls’ night’, ‘like two schoolgirls’ ad nauseum. I guess it’s because they act like adolescents with credit cards.
What happened to her nose, that’s what I want to know.
Am I the only woman who looks forward to being 59 and not having to give a sh*t about looking good anymore?! To be old and free from the beauty demands of society sounds heavenly.
As a 63 year old woman I can say that it exhausts me to even think about all the things these women do to try and keep themselves young looking. To me, very few of them succeed at looking “young” or even good. Fake is not beautiful to me. iMO, most look like older woman trying to appear and act younger than they are which is anything but attractive. I want to be comfortable and feel comfortable. I’ve earned it is what I figure. Nowadays, it takes me a quarter of the time to get ready to go somewhere than when I was young and beautiful. You don’t know how many times I have laughed at the irony of that!
Yep, they reek of desperation. Keep your fave lifts and gimme grandbabies and crochet and playing cards with the ‘girls’ LOL I can’t wait.
As a 59 year old, I’ll just tell you that part of what you say so thoughtlessly and inaccurately is true, and part is not. First of all, you will not consider yourself “old.” You will feel the same as you do now, except, in your case, perhaps a little less clueless. You will certainly not consider yourself old enough to be free from the hope that you can look attractive for your age. You will care a lot less about what other people think, true. And you will have found a style that’s becoming to you and age appropriate, and you won’t care so much about trendy fashion. But you will still be sentinent enough to find your way home and not quite ready to roam the streets in your bedroom slippers, having left your teeth on the table by the bed.
Damn, that was a subtle take down.
My mama is 61 and still makes sure she looks beautiful and loves clothes. I have no illusions that I’m going to stop caring about my grooming and appearance once I hit a magical age.
Thank you. Really, I’m not quite ready for the home yet. Lol
I will be 59 in 7 years. I still feel young. I guess poor health is the only thing that makes you feel old. I still can hear my dad, in his 80’s, complaining he was getting old. Lol. He didn’t get sick until about 86. And, yes, I think I still look great when I try, but realistically, I know I don’t look 40. My neck gives me away.
@Jen, oh definitely age changes the way you look. I’m not delusional. But my mother is 89 and still beautiful. Not the way you’re beautiful at 20 or 30, but beautiful. Beauty changes as you age. I just think the idea that you’re so decrepit at 59 that you are “free” from caring how you look is insulting and childish.
I’m definitely looking forward to caring less what people think about me. I’m already well on my way; just the other day I went to safeway in my dirty overalls because after putting up fence all day and then discovering the fridge empty, I couldn’t be arsed to change clothes. The looks I got, even in a heavily agricultural community, were pretty funny.
My mom is in her 70’s and the only things she really cares about as far as her appearance goes is brushing her hair and drawing on her eyebrows. Her eyebrows, once black, have lightened so much you can barely see them and for some reason that bugs the hell out of her. Her gray hair is fine, but the invisible eyebrows are not. As for everything else, she just waves her hand at the mirror like “eh, that’ll do”.
Yes I agree with LizLemonGotMarried–that was masterful, GNAT.
I care less every year that I get older but I can already tell that I’ll still be vain in 20 years. I’m just self-conscious to an extreme degree–or maybe everyone is, but I just let it get to me more.
My mother and mother in law are two of the most stylish women I know. They always look on point. Hair and make up always done. But they always have been like that. I don’t think you pass an age and it magically changes. If you care about your appearance you always will. no matter what age.
I know several woman that have had breast implants/lift. Most had them done after they gave birth to their last child. Their breast were not the same and they could afford it.
I’m just as slobby now as I was decades ago, but women who prefer to look more presentable in their 20s are likely to do the same in their 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s and 100s…. A switch doesn’t suddenly turn off for a mentally healthy person. We’re the same basic person we were in a younger phase of our lives.
I see they didn’t fix the “crazy eyes.” I once went to a funeral of a very, very wealthy man and was so distracted by the skinny, alien-looking ladies over 60. Some of them could barely talk their lips were so puffed up. I was pregnant and in my 30s and surely no prize but I felt so sorry for these women. They certainly didn’t look younger and it was obvious that, in that circle, that was part of the culture. Just like Guess jeans were practically required when I was in middle school, plastic surgery, starvation, and giant, giant diamond rings were required with that group. My friends and I were shellshocked. We wondered if some of them were drunk or if their lips were too inflated.
With all the work she’s had done all I can still see is those crazy eyes.
Oh that “girl” as she refers to herself as does have the crazy eyes. Years ago I watched this crap and her so called friends would goof on her to her face. She was argumentative and played the victim when called on her negativity. She’s real close to obnoxiousness to New Jersey Teresa……nah nobody can out creep that table flipper. Afterthought: She’d loose years without surgery if she cut her hair. The long tresses age her. Don’t women look in the mirror….ugh
Those eyes have to be due to a thyroid problem, right?
Ramona has always thought she was far more attractive than she really is. And smarter. She’s probably happy in her delusion, though, so whatever.
Yes, having work done in my part of the country (Chicago) doesn’t seem all that common either. Or at least they must be more subtle. I also know handful of people who have had procedures — tummy tuck, breast reductions, and that’s it.
But there are two ladies in our neighborhood who must be late 40s and they have succumbed to the frozen face, trout lips and hair extensions. They stand out compared to everyone else at, say, a high school football game and it’s funny how alike they look. They must have the same doctor!
That’s one of many reasons why I felt so at-home in Chicago: people just seem to have a more grounded vibe out there.
Sigh. We want to go back so badly..maybe we’ll go again later this year.
Ramona seems kind of nutty on RHONY, but there is something ultimately likable about her, at least in my opinion. I enjoy the fact that she is a successful, independent woman and she doesn’t seem (again, seems…based on limited knowledge obtained from gossip and television) too preoccupied with aging. She’s a beautiful woman, however unhinged and however clearly she lacks humility. I find myself rooting for her. I can’t believe I have such sympathy for a reality television star, but there you go.
I agree, her one redeeming quality is her insistence on being financially independent and drilling that into her daughter as well. I respect her business sense, even though she is so unhinged and crazy at times. But if I were her, I wouldn’t brag about not having a facelift when she had a so called liquid facelift on camera. I mean, did she forget she was filmed doing that? Ah, the housewives. I love them, but they are such hypocrites.
It all depends on which part of the country (or countries, for that matter) you live in. Where I went to high school, nose jobs were so common that girls came to school with bandages and their friends would congratulate them, compare notes on nose shapes and doctors. By the time we were 17, a handful of the girls had more extensive work done (boobs – augmentation or reduction, shaving chin down, etc.). It was a sign of how much love and/or money your father had. Even in my current “hippie” town 2 hours from a major city, Botox, fillers, and boob jobs are not uncommon. Most people in my circle think that I could (and should) look better with some effort & work.
No Ramona, most Adult Women your age don’t look like they are mid getting a surprise! party whilst going through a wind tunnel, sweets, nice try
Yeah, those eyes don’t occur in nature.
Thyroid eyes Ramona.
I thought it was Brandi Glanville in the cover pic!
I can’t stand the “housewives’ shows” in general, but I am addicted to RHNY (and somewhat embarrassed to admit it). In addition to looking top-heavy w/ the new boobs and the ridiculous hair extensions, Ramona is a brainless wonder. I’d like the show even better if she weren’t on it, because I can’t stand her loud, obnoxious, complete self-absorption. It’s embarrassing to watch her juvenile displays and listen to her continual, nonsensical jabber. She says nothing.
And, yeah, she’s “no girl”…calling oneself a “girl” at her age reveals just how clueless, vapid, and absurd she is. Having a “girls’ night out” is just common terminology–I and my best friend frequently make plans for going out to dinner, which we call a “girls’ night out,” but never would we ever debase our maturity or intelligence level by referring to ourselves in public as girls. Ridiculous.
I used to watch it, but I could not stand Ramona. Such a moron.
I hate to be petty, but here I go!! I watch RHoNY, but I can’t STAND Ramona. She’s judgmental in the extreme (yes, I feel the irony), she chews maniacally with her mouth open. She’s always screeching for attention. She seems to think every man everywhere she goes wants her. And she has this weird way of ‘blowing’ words out of her mouth.
Ramona is not even pretending to be normal this season. But.. I’m most upset by they way that Bethanny and Carole are trying to kick Sonja and Luanne off the show, AND they way that they make fun of Jules. I know that Sonja is delusional in business, and that Luanne has a huge ego, but what’s so wrong with being a flawed housewife? Being broke, insecure, drunk, promiscuous? Like it’s their lives, let them live their truth. And then let them watch their mistakes for the next 10 years on Bravo re-runs.
But the Jules stuff, I can just tell that they think that Jules is stupid, and treat her like she’s invisible. Which is absolutely messed up for someone in recovery.
I think taking care of yourself and your appearance are important. It says a lot about you as a person. When you stop caring I think it’s a sign of depression.
Or self love for what’s inside. Some of the kindest, most genuine people I know are very careless about their appearance – they are Earth Mother types, and just make sure their hair and clothes are clean and are then they are good to go do kind works for others.
Maybe in you, it would be a sign of depression.
In others, it can be a sign that they 1) don’t have to get dressed up any more for their job so they don’t, since they never liked doing it in the first place and life is too short…. or 2) they have other things on their minds and only so much energy and brain cells to spare for anything beyond finding clean underwear and where is that comb again? Some of us have always been like that, even as teenagers. Takes all kinds. Wouldn’t the world be boring otherwise?
Men have always felt free to be quite variable in their attention to presentability, why can’t women? There have always been the Reggies and the Archies along with the Jugheads.
A sign of depression or some other problem is any change that is uncharacteristic for the person unless there is an obvious good reason for it. Drag me to the psychiatrist if I start wearing makeup and wigs and dresses, please, and don’t forget to feed the cats when they toss me in the psych ward for observation.
I don’t know who this twit is, but someone should inform her that “girls” are nowhere near the age of 59. It’s my biggest pet peeve in the world for men AND women to refer to females over 18 as “girls”. No one ever calls men “boys”.
Most girls her age? Honey, you are so, so, SO far from being a girl. You are at the top of the middle aged range. Two more years and you are a Senior. Take it easy there, Wino.
3rd nastiest housewife in the franchise. Tammy and Vicky of the OC are first but Ramona is the most narcissistic, backstabbing hag in the NY cast. I can totally see why Mario had to bail. She’s insufferable.
Mario is a loser, but I agree she is insufferable…that kind of sums her up in a nutshell. (Pun intended.)
I think it is hilarious that commenters have said they only know a few people if any who have had botox. Trust me, you simply don’t know it.
The right way to get it is to get it so people just know you look good.
That’s it.
If you notice, well then, they’ve done it wrong.
I can’t figure out why so many people on tv have such bad work done. As you say, if it’s a good job, nobody will notice. I would have assumed money could get you away from the incompetents.
wow I like her extensions. Finally subtly done. I hate when they put too much and too long, like kim k’s or Kate Middleton. But this looks natural.
One bit of credit — she is wearing skirts to the knee. Older women in super short skirts is not so great. The hair is too long, but she looks pretty fit.