Above is a photo of the cover of Yolanda Hadid’s memoir, which I assume is not written yet because it’s not out until next year. It was smart of her to put a husky puppy on the cover with her because your eye just goes to that beautiful animal and you want to open the book for more, which is so illogical but puppies. This is not Yolanda’s dog and according to her Instagram she was just puppy sitting. There are more photos of furballs below to get you through this post. Yolanda is currently in Tahiti, where she is posting bikini photos which look vaguely Photoshopped (I’m sure her body is great but I side-eye her waist in that pic in front of the ocean) and recovering from being fired from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, if rumors are to be believed. In Touch reported that producers were telling her to stop focusing on her lyme disease because “The viewers are tired of hearing about it.” Instead they reportedly gave her an ultimatum that “her storyline this season will be looking for love since she is now single.” If she’s truly as sick as she seems, that sounds pretty dumb but they have to go with what people will watch I guess.
Yolanda has been accused of faking her illness, of having Munchausen and Munchausen by proxy for claiming her children have lyme too, and of playing it up for the cameras and social media. So now she’s putting out a book to further tell her side of the story. The folks at Reality Tea think the title is a dig at her co-stars on RHOBH, who throw shade on her and often discount her symptoms. Here’s the announcement from Bravo:
Yolanda Hadid’s battle with Lyme disease has been well documented over the last few seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Now the mother of Gigi and Bella Hadid is telling all in a brand-new memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease.
Yolanda spoke to The Daily Dish about her new book, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2017, and why she felt it was time to write it. “Once I started to uncover the mystery of chronic Lyme disease and the stigma around it, I felt a strong sense of obligation towards the millions of people suffering from this debilitating disease to share my journey and to be a voice for those who can’t be heard,” she says.
The title is most certainly a nod to accusations that came up during Season 6 of RHOBH that Yolanda might have Munchausen Syndrome, a mental disorder in which someone makes others believe he or she is sick by pretending to be ill, by purposely getting sick, or through self-injury, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“I would hope that anyone who watched or knows about my journey will take the time to read Believe Me as I truly hope it will educate and open people’s hearts in order to gain a much deeper respect and understanding of this journey,” Yolanda says. “The message here is really about how we can learn to be less judgmental and deal with chronically ill people in a more kind, compassionate and understanding way.”
Of course it is those already suffering from Lyme disease that Yolanda was thinking of when writing the book. “I have met so many debilitated and financially devastated patients, parents who’ve sold their homes in order to pay for their children’s treatment all while fighting to keep them alive. I documented my journey with photos, daily logs, lab results and short videos, because I wasn’t sure I would make it through alive, but I did. I am here to tell my story because we need a cure affordable for all.”
Yolanda says the memoir will contain information on every treatment she’s tried over the last five years — both the ones that helped and the ones that didn’t. “I was raised to blindly trust doctors, but learned I had to be my own health advocate,” she explains.
I’ve had a lyme-type disorder and have had invisible illness so while I can very much relate to Yolanda’s plight that does not mean that I agree with the way she’s tried to “raise awareness.” She posts a lot of sickbed selfies, but she’s a former model, both her daughters are models and she’s on a reality show. That just goes with the territory, it doesn’t mean she’s faking or playing it up at all. Some people, often people who have been healthy all their lives, cannot grasp that someone can be extremely ill and still look ok or manage to fake it for a couple of hours. It seems like a double edged sword for Yolanda in that she can’t appear well or she’s accused of not really being sick and she can’t appear sick or she’s accused of wallowing or exaggerating. That’s kind of the nature of lyme, you can appear and feel ok one day and be on your ass the next. Of course she’s seeking every treatment possible, she has money, she feels horrible and she wants to get better but somehow that’s a strike against her too.
These shows rely on the women fighting and sniping at each other so it’s only expected that if one is sick the others are going to say she’s not really sick. They have to find reasons to hate each other. Lyme needs a better spokesperson than Yolanda but at least she’s making it more visible. Now let’s look at puppies.
This photo makes it look like Yolanda went to Tahiti on the advance from her book.
She wouldn’t be my choice to bring awareness to chronic Lyme disease, but certainly someone needs to. My husband has suffered for years and there are many people, including a few on here, who still don’t believe chronic Lyme exists. It’s exhausting and infuriating. He is in remission now, but every ache or pain is terrifying for him – is it coming back? Can I face it again?
Good luck to the hubby. My daughter has fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom and some days for her are the worst. I think my problem with her is that she plays up her disease and that is not always a good way to bring attention to it.
Yes, she’s sort of a drama queen and attention seeker, so people tend to think she’s exaggerating.
Best wishes to your daughter.
I’m late to the party here, but just wanted to say hi to you and your daughter from another Ehlers-Danlos sufferer. 🙂
Chronic depression gets the same lack of respect. If you’re not literally bed-bound, people refuse to believe there’s anything wrong with you.
Exactly.
Totally agree! I was diagnosed with bi-polar, severe panic driven OCD and depression. I was able to look relatively normal on the outside but was constantly fighting everything on the inside so no one would know. I never wanted to feel weak in front of others. I eventually had to take time off work to properly deal with it and get to a point where i could function “normally.”
It’s such a shame those women didn’t either just comfort her or STAY OUT OF IT. Perhaps one of the reasons she feels the need to talk about it is BECAUSE people are denying she has it. That must be extremely frustrating, real or not. Why bring others down? She’s obviously still trying to figure everything out.
I can commiserate, GNAT! I, too, have a disease that took many years and multiple doctors to finally get a diagnosis, and since it doesn’t have “visible” symptoms (yet) there are a lot of people who accused me of being a “hypochondriac”. But like you, I just don’t think Yolanda is a good spokesperson for this. And saying that two of her children have this (non-contagious) disease makes her suspect in my eyes.
Yes, I don’t wish this on anyone else, but I wish someone without so much baggage would come forward. I’m sorry you are struggling and hope you can get the help you need.
That fear is the worst kind of fear. After two bouts with kidney stones in a three month span I know exactly how that feels. Every time I’d feel anything even close to pain in my back I immediately got so saturated with fear that I was about to be in for another. Just knowing the kind of pain I’d have to ‘look forward’ to … it’s crippling.
I’m going to talk to the Dr. next week about the possibility of fibro – I’m in way too much pain for 26… and apparently chronic migraines and jaw issues can be linked to it as well… and I have the weirdest, overly sensitive skin. Chronic pain is such a horribly represented thing – it’s scary how little they know. I mean – even with something as common as migraines – they only accepted that post-drome was a thing as of 2004. It’s like a complete body hangover for about a day or so after a migraine for me. And I keep thinking ‘my God, this has only been accepted since 2004″
Erinn – good luck! As I said above, my daughter has it. It’s hard to diagnose (easier now than when she was diagnosed). You might want to get checked for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome also. My daughter can’t use a rowing machine because the rubbing of the butt cheeks causes a raw spot. She also has migranes. Hope all turns out well.
I’d second getting checked out for EDS. Have you heard of the Brighton Score? http://www.ehlers-danlos.org/about-eds/getting-a-diagnosis/brighton-score/
I’m so sorry to hear that, Erinn. I hope that the doctors can figure it out. My sister has fibromyalgia and your symptoms sound very similar. Good luck with everything, my friend.
Thanks guys – I’ve gotten so used to being at work and having to function with horrible migraines that my pain levels seem to be a bit skewed… I have a weird level of pain tolerance because of it, and the kidney stones. But even when I was a kid, I broke my arm and my eyes welled up, but I didn’t even cry. So even though I’ve been having these issues for years, I figured it was just ‘normal’ or that I was feeling whiney. But the thing that always drove me nuts was how just brushing a piece of grass off my leg hurts… it’s almost like a feeling of hitting a really bad bruise even though there’s nothing there, and I’m just lightly brushing grass away.
I took a look at the EDS too – I’m going to be printing off a bunch of stuff at work and going through highlighting the things that are effecting me before I go in so I’ll have had time to really think about all the symptoms instead of listing them on the spot.
Either way – here’s hoping they figure something out!
To Erinn and anyone else here who said something about fibromyalgia: I have it myself and because there is no cure, as you certainly are aware, I would just like to share with you that for me, cutting out all kinds of wheat or gluten has SIGNIFICANTLY reduced my problems to tolerable on bad days and not-on-my-mind on good days. Nobody teaches you that where I live, and it made a really amazing difference for me. Also, not drinking coffee anymore helps a lot. Other than that please keep your heads up high. It is a terrifying sickness, especially when fibrofog hits you and renders you incapable of your beloved job, and we suffer from all the same issues associated with invisible illnesses of course, but with a strict, boring diet and a bit more of sport you can really made a huge impact on the symptoms. Also I want to believe that one day somebody comes up with a cure. Love, a fellow sufferer.
I didn’t like Yolanda because of her attitude.Also doesn’t Bella have Lyme?
And Anwar?
Where did they pick up the disease? I thought, honestly, that the deer ticks that carry it are far more prevalent in the eastern US.
This is the issue people have. Depending on her story it was she was bite by a horse fly on the ranch, which is not how you can get Lyme Disease. Oh and depending on the version she is telling the 3 of them all contracted it when there was a total of 6 cases in the state for the year.
I live where were are constantly on tick patrol, Wednesday I received an email from my daughters teacher that they found a tick on her after recess. Lyme disease is real and it sucks.
I don’t doubt she has an invisible disease, I’ve often thought it was menopause or depression.
I think that she picked up the disease from ‘Bored, Idle, Drama Queen magazine’. She has spent a fortune of other suckers money to get every expensive test in the book. At least David Foster eventually beat it for his own sanity!
Diagnoses are most populous in the North East and upper Mid West, but all states except Hawaii have had cases. Colorado for some reason has had only rare confirmed cases. Here’s a CDC link:http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/tables.html
@ Micky
You sound fun.
/s
I’m with Mickey on this!
I’ve never been able to tolerate Yolanda, even before the Lyme Disease drama. The whole way she handled her illness was suspect, including stating that two of her children also had it. Yolanda is the Queen of Manipulation and Drama and using her illness for personal publicity and promotion.
And what’s with the pics of all the puppies…what do they have to do with her disease…do they somehow make her appear more credible. More gimmicks, and that’s exactly why I can’t stand her.
@GNAT: I have all the respect in the world for you and know that your husband and other posters on this site have real, long-term, debilitating illnesses which they deal with both bravely and privately.
I know quite a few people who have had years- even decades -long battles with Lyme. But only the celebutard gets to write a book about it. Her thirsty writing doesn’t interest me.
That is a great cover photo of Yolanda and the puppy.
Puppies!!!
All I know is that I want that puppy in the first photo. Those eyes!
My sister in law has lyme disease and struggles a lot, and her own mother is constantly accusing her of exaggerating. It’s pretty shitty.
First of all, She was never diagnosed with Lyme. What she says she has is chronic Lyme, which the CDC does not recognize. She hooked up with a quack doctor who sells all kinds of remedies that medically have no merit. That is where my skepticism comes in. However, I do believe there are illnesses that medicine has not figured out yet. Is that the case with Yolanda’s? I don’t really know.
Aside from that, I don’t care for her personality. She is smug and condescending to others. That has always been my main gripe with her, as a watcher of the HW.
See, this is the kind of misinformation that I find so infuriating and exhausting. The CDC doesn’t call it Chronic Lyme Disease. It calls it Post Lyme Disease Treatment Syndrome. The CDC believes that the continued symptoms DO exist, but that they are caused by a reaction within the patient’s own body to the disease, not by the disease itself. You make it sound like the CDC is denying that it exists and that’s completely untrue. There are just differing opinions in the scientific community about the cause. As far as my husband is concerned, who cares? Except for the possible treatment ramifications, what difference does it make. Please don’t talk about it as if it’s made up. My husband sailed for two hours once by himself with a broken arm. He broke two ribs once and I had to fight him for the car keys to drive to the doctor. He is NOT pretending. When his Lyme comes back, he aches all over and can’t even muster up the energy to smile, his beautiful mind is very fuzzy, he has debilitating headaches and he loses the energy to be interested in the things he loves. It breaks my heart, and if you knew him, you would understand that this is not a person who wants to be sick.
@GNAT. This was an excellent description of what it’s like to be in a Lyme body (coming from one who knows). Your husband is very lucky you have such a keen understanding of what he’s going thru. Not all partners/family are like that.
That is a lot of projection on your part. Everything I said is a FACT. Post Lyme is not chronic Lyme. That is not what she is saying she has. Don’t accuse me of spreading misinformation. And yes, the CDC does not recognize chronic Lyme.
Did you not read my whole post, where I acknowledge there are things that the medical field does not understand also? I believe you when you tell me your husband is sick.
You totally misconstrued my whole post.
@DaniB, by leaving out the fact that the CDC regonizes that people do indeed have these symptoms, but that the CDC just calls it by a different name, i felt that you were spreading misinformation. I’m sorry if I sounded rude or misconstrued your post. This is just such a source of pain and despair for me because I can’t bear to see my husband suffer, let alone hear people claim that what he’s saying isn’t true. Maybe I am projecting, and being overly sensitive. I’m sorry, because I know you are a great person, and we have had a lot of fun on here together. It was not my intention to attack you personally, just the idea that chronic Lyme does not exist.
GNAT, you made me cry for you. I can empathize. Your husband is EXTREMELY blessed to have you. I am sure you feel the same about him.
Thank you, Kiliki. That is so sweet, and yes, I am very, very blessed to have my husband.
I believe you about your husband and I’m so sorry he’s struggled so much. There is a campaign in the UK run by John Caudwell who has discovered many of his family members have Lyme. He’s trying to raise awareness of Lyme and is pressing for more sophisticated testing in the NHS. It’s a much misunderstood disease and it’s such an awful condition to live with. I’m really sad to hear of your struggles with it.
GNAT, it is ok and I appreciate your response. Listen, I have great compassion for your husband and you, both living with chronic illness as a patient and caregiver is very difficult. I can’t stress that enough.
Full disclosure here, I have Sarcoidosis and understand exactly what chronic illness is like to live with. In addition, before I became ill, I had thirty years taking care of sick people as a RN. Believe me, I get it. I was and am a patient advocate.
My opinion about Yo is strictly based on her personality. I do not think she is a kind person and comes off very judgmental. As a Lyme advocate, she is the worst because she dies a poor job of educating. That is all.
Not many people understand my disease and I get many questions which I could construe as unkind. But I have always tried to explain my disease to people, for awareness sake. I do acknowledge, some of that is also the nurse in me, to educate you know. I admit also that, that is some of what irritates me about Yo. But, I do know what it is to be looking well on the outside but dying on the inside. I just try to tell myself that people really do mean well and that is what I hold onto.
I am sorry for your husbands illness. Truly I am and for our misunderstanding.
Thank you, Prim, so much. I can’t wait to google him. And thank you for your kind thoughts.
@Dani8
Thanks, so much, for your understanding and for not holding my knee jerk reaction against me. Operative word being “jerk” I’m afraid. That’s what happens when I go off half cocked – here you have these awful struggles of your own and I’m lecturing you, a nurse, about chronic illness. I am sorry.
Thank you! Not only was she not diagnosed with Lyme disease, she was told by medical doctors that she does *not* have Lyme disease. So she doctor shopped to get the diagnosis she determined she had and when she failed to get that from a medical doctor, she just pursued naturopaths instead. She has no legitimacy as a Lyme disease advocate.
Not only that but her story about contracting Lyme disease reveals she knows nothing about the real disease. She claims she got it while riding horses in Southern California. A dry, arid climate with little vegetation beyond scrub and not the climate for deer ticks, the only known transmitter of Lyme disease. Essentially, she’s claiming she got it from horseflies! Come on, she’s a fraud and a joke.
I don’t want to be repetitive, or rude, but please google it. There have been cases of Lyme disease and spotting a of Lyme ticks all over California. It is not terribly common, as you point out, but is is not unheard of. As for her diagnosis, there is no test to prove you have Lyme. There is only a test to show whether or not you have antibodies present due to exposure to Lyme. This test isn’t perfect, and you could have Lyme and test negative, or test positive but never show any symptoms. As for doctor shopping, sometimes you have to. The first doctor my husband went to knew it was Lyme because he had the classic bullseye rash, but he gave the wrong antibiotic. The symptoms went away but came back even worse. The second doctor he went to told him he was crazy, as it doesn’t come back ever. He finally got so sick and desperate that he went to another state to a prominent infectious disease doctor who told him it was chronic Lyme. The CDC. Doesn’t know everything, and they have staked their reputation on their insistence over the years that Lyme symptoms do not ever return. For them to finally admit that they do return, even though they refuse to call it the same name, was a step forward. I predict that someday they will have to admit that chronic Lyme exists exactly as thousands of people have claimed for decades, and they will be forced to call it what it is. But the fact that they refuse to is not the end of the story. They often have to go back on one thing or another that they have claimed. That’s the nature of science, I suppose.
Look, I have no idea whether this woman has chronic Lyme or not. I tend to believe her, but you could be right. But I think it’s unfair to assume she’s lying, and my heart goes out to her.
@Susan,
I have been skeptical about Yolanda’s Lyme Disease diagnosis from day one for the reason you gave, specifically that Yolanda diagnosed herself with Lyme Disease, I don’t think she was calling it chronic at that time, and then “shopped” around until she found a doctor who would confirm her diagnosis, which, given her wealth, was only a matter of time.
I remember Yolanda’s early days on RH, back when many people were still dazzled by her refrigerator and lemon grove, to me, something was not right about Yolanda and her health claims – before she made the big Lyme Disease reveal there were other claims like Chronic Fatigue, Epstein-Barr, a thyroid condition, etc. I am not saying that she is faking being ill but it seems like the Lyme Disease diagnosis has endured mostly because the Lyme Disease diagnosis coincided with her becoming famous as a cast member of Real Housewives and she immediately started getting awards and recognition as a “Lymie.”
I suspect that if Yolanda was not in the public eye when she wrangled the LD diagnosis that by now she would have moved on to another disease or other primary causative factor like the fact that her 20 year old breast implants had ruptured and silicone was floating around in her body.
As stated above I was skeptical from day one but I was not hard core, I could have been convinced that she had Lyme Disease, but the more information that came out about Yolanda’s particular case, I actually became more skeptical, not less.
@GNAT, I really wish they would find a good test to check for Lyme disease. It is not as uncommon as people think. Keep educating people!
This state-by-state CDC table may be enlightening for you regarding your assumptions about Lyme not being in Cali: http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/tables.html
Agreed. She’s completely full of it, a full blown pathological liar. And all she’s “done for Lyme” is to confuse people about it, and make it seem a bit ridiculous, b/c her own stories of how she got it are so contradictory, and b/c she claims two of her three kids have it severely, too. (The kids do not seem ill in the slightest–and she does only when she chooses. Come some Red Carpet event, she is instantly well, and also, though she “couldn’t read, couldn’t write, couldn’t drive, couldn’t walk for 3 years” (sometimes 4) due to Lyme, we see her doing ALL those things on RHOBH!) She makes me sick w her attention garnering lies, as we really DO need a spokesperson for Lyme–and many other invisible diseases.
@GNAT – I have Chronic Lyme. At this point it is difficult to even enter into another dialogue because of the incredible futility it presents by the mere mention of it. The CDC formultated their stance on Chronic Lyme because they were leveraged by Insurance companies who do not want to pay for the long term costs of chronic illness. The state of Massachusetts was on this same trajectory until they realized they had an epidemic on their hands of very ill people requiring treatment for acute and chronic conditions. They could no longer afford the cost to the State, most of which insurance companies should have been paying. They revised their recommendations for treatment of Lyme which included recognition of its chronic form. Columbia University recognizes chronic lyme with ongoing research because we are far from understanding, diagnosing, preventing and treating this insanely opportunistic Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and the “mechanisms of persistence and immune evasion.” http://www.columbia-lyme.org/patients/ld_chronic.html I have never heard of Yolanda Hadid (I have never felt inclined to tap into the housewives culture … because as CB stated, the show relies on women fighting and sniping on eachother), but, I believe her because most people with chronic lyme KNOW the feeling of not being believed by Doctors, Scientists, Insurance Companies, Family, Friends, Communities etc …. and one of the most universally felt sentiment among lyme sufferers is “BELIEVE ME”
PS …. @GNAT – I am sorry to hear about your husband. Your husband is extremely fortunate to have you as his partner and advocate, which many Lyme sufferers do not have.
I want the puppies and also I want wherever it is that she was in the photo where she is on a laptop in a nook with water in the background. I WANT.
Deep breath. OK. Wow, chronic Lyme’s – what a terrifying illness. I know one friend who contracted it 20+ years ago when so little was known about it. He came back to work and would look at me like I was a stranger because he couldn’t remember my name. I still think about him to this day and wonder how he is doing.
She is insufferable. People with cancer don’t go to the lengths she does for attention. They had the Munchausen diagnosis wrong, it’s called narcissism.
I’m with you. I’ve never heard of a mother and all her kids getting lyme disease. Bella and Gigi certainly show no signs of having any disease. All these “housewives” are insufferable.
Not all her kids just Not Gigi1 and Not Gigi2 have it. Gigi somehow avoided the horse fly that was passing it around to the family members.
Gigi doesn’t have it. Only Bella and her son Anwar.
Lyme can be easily and successfully (leaving/causing no sequelae) treated with antibiotics if caught early.
There are actually two documentaries about Lyme Disease. I’ve only seen the first one entitled “Under Our Skin.” Under Our Skin is a documentary about the standard antibody test and how it often gives a false negative. The people who invented this test are actually on the committee which approves Lyme Disease testing. It’s a “follow the money” problem. This means that often the only way to get an accurate test is by DNA/PCR testing. It is difficult and expensive to get this testing done. Insurance companies won’t approve it.
Further, there was a new strain of Lyme just discovered a few months ago. It is found mostly in Northern Minnesota and North Dakota. They are unsure if the antibody test will work at all for this strain.
My point is the following: The reason that Lyme Disease is so controversial and that patients are not believed is because the standard testing often does not work and the CDC has been very reluctant to admit that. In my opinion, the CDC is the reason for the controversy and the reason people remain ill with Lyme Disease.
You nailed it with the comment about how healthy people do not understand chronic “invisible” illnesses. I suffer from an immune disorder, and I can be perfectly healthy and active one day and then the next day I’m too sick for anything. People just don’t get it.
Don’t want to pry, but is it Hashimoto’s? I battled with my doctor for years that my thyroid was out of whack while she insisted my #s were within normal range.
Finally after 10 yrs. she decides to give me an antibody test (shame on me for not knowing about it) and I was diagnosed with hashimotos.
I have every symptom of hypothyroid – went to premier specialist who had the audacity to say that hashimotos does not have any symptoms.
Really?
So my immune system is actively trying to kill my thyroid but that wouldn’t cause any thyroid symptoms?
Found myself a logical well-informed Doctor who recognizes the effects of this disease – she increased my thyroid med, recommended I stay on selenium, and I did my own research and am eating Paleo.
After 10 yrs. weight is falling off, I’m energized, not depressed, and have a new outlook on life.
I don’t know Yolanda other than seeing her on gossip pages, but she’s stunning, no?
I looked at her younger pics and neither of her daughters is close to her gorgeousness.
Aside from that, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt on this given my experience of being dismissed by well regarded doctors.
I get it. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis & developed neuropathy on top of it a few years ago. They think the neuropathy may be due to some of the long term meds I’ve been on for the RA but they’re not sure because I’m not diabetic. I’ll be in remission from the RA for periods of time & then all of a sudden get hit with a flare that can last a few days to a few weeks. It’s not just the pain but the exhaustion that goes along with living in chronic pain. I get so tired of hearing, “you’re too young to have that” or “you don’t look sick.” Sigh.
I went on line to try and find when and where she said this: “I have lost the ability to read, write, or even watch TV, because I can’t process information or any stimulation for that matter.” It was on her blog, but I cannot find it anymore. It is documented on Daily Mail, though. If this is true, how can she be typing a memoir?
holy crap, they deleted that part from her bravo-blog. it still shows up on google, but not in the blog itself. you’re totally right. looks odd to have a memoir when ya can’t write! but then again, yolanda never really cared about consistency. she can’t read but she read 100 books on lyme. she can’t process information, but she is such an expert now. it goes on and on. only question is, why is bravo playing along?
Oh there are so many inconsistencies with this one. One of her interviews she changed her timeline yet again to where she was being affected before her marriage to David and she could barely participate in the rehearsal and dinner. Guess she forgot she was filmed for Danish Housewives of Beverly Hills and they covered her wedding. The footage of her shows just how involved she was, moving tables and chairs around, far cry for the new narrative she is trying to write.
Honestly this book needs to be placed under fiction.
there were specualtions she did that to void her prenup with david. she pulled a similar stunt with gigi and bellas father mohamed.
@anna, I think Bravo is playing along for the ratings to a certain extent and a reason for the ladies to argue (which seems to be the only thing they do on that show). Please no one stone me for asking this…but am I the only one who gets a “Stepford Wife” vibe from Yolanda?
I don’t care about the Lyme disease but the obvious “cash grab” of changing her name to Hadid makes me sick. Go back to your maiden name for God’s sake. She’s as bad as PMK
yolanda is so full of it. she constantly changes her story, claiming she didn’t write/read/drive/ a car etc. in three years, but forgetting that she was filmed doing all of that during the time in question. her dr. is dr. klinghart who as far as i know is a quack who had his license removed. her constant companion is an ex-call girl that now goes by the title of “health advocate”. and she is pushing her crap obsession onto her kids. so according to yolanda, bella hadid has lyme disease and that was the real reason for her dui. how convenient. and one look at bella’s instagram shows that she does not suffer from some debilitating disease, but she is working hard and playing hard.
yolanda is a fraud. the only thing she is raising awareness for is her inflated sense of self.
My aunt was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease a few years ago. She believes she got it in the 80s and it was mistaken for a spider bite. She remembers describing it to the doctors as a bulls-eye mark on her leg. Her struggle is REAL. And the Lyme disease can trigger other ailments like hypothyroidism. Whether she’s faking or not, attention needs to be brought to this rapidly growing and ignored plight.
Thank you.
I have MS, which is another often invisible disease especially in the early stages. I am
very private about my disease and my symptoms, but that’s me. I don’t judge anyone else who handles it differently. I just don’t find it helpful to try to educate people generally on what it is like to have a terrible disease. My close friends and family I am honest with. Otherwise I try to live my life and not worry fixate on my ms, bc that’s unhealthy for me personally. And I am also personally thankful that still for me, at this time, I look healthy. I wouldn’t want my disease to progress to the point where I am obviously disabled.
Yeah, putting your disease up for discussion is probably something you don’t want to do. There is nothing to be ashamed of, but why put yourself through dealing with how and what everyone else thinks and feels about your issue when your time is better spent on managing yourself?
Real Housewives is so lame. Im no TV snob, vh1 “Love” shows are my crack. But with that one and the Kardashians, I never got the popularity. Those women are just… Boring.
I know a mother of 3 who has it. It was misdiagnosed until AFTER her children were born. All 4 of them have it now. And the crazy part of Lyme is that it shows different awful symptoms in each of them!!!!! It’s been hard to watch their family go through it but their faith in the good Lord, and lots of specific diets and medication help manage it a lot. Also, this is a very wealthy and well respected family in the community and SOOOOO many doctors and families turned their back to them. They now travel out of state for their care.
I see she went back to Hadid. She used to go by Foster. She just seemed like such a horrible person on RHOBH that I really have no sympathy for her.
I am deeply saddened that she even thinks it is okay to write a book about Lyme.
Those housewives shows are nuts…I honestly feel bad for Yolanda for her lyme issues, and I don’t doubt her for a second. Her sick selfies were a bit over the top. Overall I think she actually is a very sweet woman, albeit a bit over the top…which makes her fun to watch. This season was pretty tedious though, do have to say.
I do wonder if she gets basic and good nutrition to supplement any deficiencies she might have been left with due to Lyme. In her first season of the show she was all about these lemon-juice “cleanses”, and she made a comment on screen about Gigi maintaining her weight… I don’t want to throw shade her way, I just hope she isn’t skimping on food as her body most likely needs the nourishment.
I was on the fence about Yolanda (her character), until it was revealed last season that her best friends were now Kim and Brandy. Sheesh, of all the terrible BH Housewives, I think they were the worst or at least the dumbest. Neither of them can even PRETEND to have appropriate behavior.
Yolanda, whether she has lyme or not, does not strike me as stupid, so I gotta suspect her general character if she finds any pleasure in the dopey and unreliable company of Kim or Brandy. That fact makes me question her lyme story.
I gotta come up with something to write about that will net me an advance big enough so that I can do my writing in Tahiti!