Being a fan of The Real Housewives teaches an intimate understanding of the adage "be careful what you wish for." Complaining about a series that's gone stale might inspire a total reboot that can never reach the heights of the original, despite its charms. Demanding that a past-her-prime star get put on permanent pause can cause a show to slide into monotony, robbed of a chaos agent who moved the story along.
But in the decade since Alexis last appeared on the show, she seemed to have experienced some actual growth. The woman who once said people in same-sex marriages would "have to talk to God when they get to heaven's gate" took to Instagram in 2022 with a full-throated embrace of her trans son, writing, "We are all human and we are ALL equal."
Alexis was consistently outplayed by her castmates, once claiming that she was so severely bullied that "I had to go on Xanax for it, Lydia!" She explained that "Costa Rica is in Mexico, so it's south." She let herself be defined by those around her - first, her (now-ex-) husband Jim Bellino, who liked to keep her in line; and then by her co-star Tamra Judge.
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