Episode Ten

I missed episode nine yesterday (sniff sniff). From the recap, Jenn built a necklace out of those bricks in that fort Iyanla made her build, to show her the weight she's carrying around every day with her. Towanda has a hard time trusting men cause her daddy cheated. Kim has a hard time making and keeping female friends, and when her mom dies, her total will be down to zero.

Today's episode started with Kim on the phone worryin to someone about the roommate replacing Deborah that's coming to roost.

GROUP MEETING W/EGGHEAD DUDE: Stannie wants to talk with everyone about DIVORCE. All the girls start goin out about how men suck. He asks them, "Why did the men in your life act the way they did?". Towanda: "Cause they're greedy." Other group input: "They're born to lie." "All men lie and cheat!" Kim breathes with her fire. "Why?" Mr. Katz asks. "100% sex" Towanda hisses.

Heh. Egghead tries to push forgiveness on the bitches. Your dads just needed to fuck, ladies... cut them a break! I'm surprised that for each and every one of them they said that cheating would be an instant dealbreaker for them. It's been awhile since I've heard a chick say that. Egghead tries to loosen their panties some more, what, a guy can't make a mistake or two? Towanda busts a good point why not to take a dude back: "Cause they're gonna be even sneakier next time so they don't get caught."

I guarded my penis even though I was seeing this all through a television screen.

Egghead checkmates them though. "What's they payoff for still being angry about it?" It's been 10, 20 years he says and you chicks are still being all annoying about it. What does it get you? It's time to get ok and accepting about your dad's extra-curricular bonin down. Be supportive, even.

TOWANDA SESSION W/IYANLA: Iyanla has all these paper cutouts stuck to posts nailed into the lawn, all representing members of Towanda's family. Immediately she replaces the one marked "Stepmom" with a new label, "Daddy's wife". Because being called a stepmom is a term of earned respect, she says.

Iyanla tells the audience the goal for today is for Towands to get in touch with her role in her family and the role the others play.

Toni Braxton gets "leader", "successful", "Golden Child" traits pinned to her cutout. The stepmom? "Enemy", "victim". Iyanla backs stepmommy up, saying I guess I'd feel like a victim too if everyone was against me.

Towanda marks herself as "failure", among lots of other traits.

KIM SESSION W/IYANLA: The new roommate coming into the house is an opportunity for Kim to make a brand new female friend. She says she's not going to make any snap judgements this time, as she tends to do with bitches.

Iyanla: "Give and don't expect anything in return." Kim has a problem with this.

TOWANDA SESSION W/EGGHEAD DUDE: Tow's a newywed, and she's been away from her husband for two weeks now. Wait a second, doesn't that mean that hubby's fuckin somebody else right about now?, Egghead asks. She says she trusts her hubby about 80%.

She says she doesn't like to reveal her emotions so she won't appear weak. Egghead dude gets her good again: Towanda says she'll forgive her dad for what he did, but never her new stepmom. The stepmom is the scapegoat. How? Egghead dude points out that it wasn't SHE who cheated out of her marriage contract... HE was the one that had the binding obligation. Yet she'll make up with him, and not her? Ace: Dr. Katz.

The new roommate arrives. Her name is Sommer. Whew, at least the Screwed-Up-Name Quotient of the house isn't going to fall since Deborah (Day-BORE-ahh) had to leave.

Sommer is 26, a talent agent. Awhile back she had some of that gassy bypass surgery. She's lost 75 lbs. in the last four months. Her goal: to learn how to be thin.

She shows everybody a fat pic of hers, the last pic she said she'd allow anyone to take of her: still looks pretty to me.

Her friend was killed in a drunk driving accident. Her boyfriend, he went into the Marines, then one day announced he was breaking up with her and marrying his ex. He comes back, one night with friends Sommer is playing Truth Or Dare with him and their buddies, they dare them two to go make out for five minutes together. Sommer fucked him.

As they cut to commercial, they showed the bitches coming out with the knives on this chick. It looks like The Other Woman is going to be strung up by the end of the group meeting.

Heh, and I was worried they weren't going to be able to find a villain as good as Deborah?

Oh yeah, the dude died in a car accident too.

Meeting's over, Kim in the kitchen telling the others "I have no respect for anyone who lies down with a married man..." Yet not even TWO MINUTES AGO she was in the booth telling the audience she was going to keep an open mind and not be judgemental to this chick! You know, like she's supposed to do as part of her assignment from Iyanla?

SOMMER SESSION W/RHONDA: Rhonda has her draw her perfect body. Sommer says she cant draw, so she puts up some adjectives: "Fit and Strong", "Happy". Rhona then says for her to draw herself when she was a huge fatass. Sommer draws a snowman-esque shape with three big circles.

Then Rhonda has her stand against the board while she traces around Sommer's body. Rhonda wants her to look at it. Sommer's afraid, that she'll look at it and be disgusted, that it'll seem like she hasn't gone that far at all in her progress since the surgery.

Rhonda persists she looks at it. Sommer does. Sommer cries.

Kim's party that she was assigned by Iyanla to throw for Sommer's arrival gets started. They seem to not be involving her too much. She goes outside to smoke.

Many voiceovers from the other housemembers worrying that she's not tryingn to fit in a la Deborah, that they're going to have the same situation on their hands.

Wooh, from the previews for next week it looks like everybody's going to be hating each other soon enough. I guess Sommer wasn't a good enough lightning rod replacement after all.

Episode Eight

It's the next morning, the life coaches are having another meeting about Deb. Iyanla votes she should stay. Egghead dude seconds it. As he talks about Deb's issues, Rhonda looks like she wants to do him.

They all agree: Deborah is just way too important for TV ratings.

Deborah calls Rhonda, says she's going to leave. Rhonda doesn't fight it.

Iyanla visits as Deborah packs. "Do you want to leave?" she asks. Deborah says no. Iyanla projects a lot of warmth and acceptance, however bombastic that projection may be. She tells Deborah they still love her no matter what her decision. "Make another choice," Iyanla keeps repeating as she hugs her.

GROUP w/ IYANLA: "Are you strong enough to stand up without your shit?" Well, your "stuff"-- meaning, that all your crap is such a part of you, much of it is necessary for the you that hasn't changed to function.

Iyanla makes Towanda do pushups for her daddy. Don't ask me. Towanda says she's pissed off about some of the details of how her dad's cheated. Iyanla tells her it's none of her damn business.

Josie meets w/ Rhonda. One of her goal steps is stability, they figure that the details of that are: money, having a home, and child care.

Iyanla takes Towanda to "peoplewatch". This is a hobby of Towanda and her hubby. Towanda sits in the mall with Iyanla, describing people that pass by as "a hoodrat", "homely", "ghetto w/ an attitude". All negative perceptions.

Cut back to Josie. "Did you learn stability from your parents?" Rhonda asks. It's not really been a part of Josie's life, of her "inherited legacy", i.e. it isn't something her forefathers learned for her. She's going to have to learn it herself to pass it on to Chloe.

Iyanla has Towanda dress up in her wack homely outfit from the night before and walk around in public. Yeah!

Rhonda takes Sinae to Koreatown to spend some time with Natalie, another blind bitch. Sinae needs a mentor, and this chick lives by herself and gets around without having to depend on someone for help. Rhonda leaves them alone to chat.

Josie has a meeting with a career counselor. The counselor gives her a test. It's psychic! It reccommends careers Josie has already dreamed of pursuing.

Natalie looks totally blind, unlike Sinae. The segment makes uses again of the Starting Over Blindcam-- for some reason they fog up the lense to where only the circular center of the shot you can see clearly. Great simulaton, guys.

Cut back to Towanda, who is totally pissed and humiliated that she has to wear crap clothes in public again. She tries to swallow it, Towanda keeps pushing her. "You are SO emotionally dishonest," Iyanla goads.

"WTF does this have to do with my daddy?" Towanda asks. Yeah, that's a good question. Iyanla insists it does. She brings it all around to what people wear on the street, it's just like the details of her dad's affair: it's none of her business. Alright, I'll give Iyanla a point for that one.

Sinae and Natalie go out to eat. Sinae tells the audience in voiceover she's learned a new trick from Nat: instead of struggling to read menus in poor lighting, annoy the waitress instead by having her read the entire menu to her.

They start talking about braille, and again it's a little hard to swallow. Like I said, I'm legally blind like Sinae, and I don't need no damn friggin braille, even without my glasses. And she's been handling the baby, baking cakes... wouldn't that be going overboard?

Josie on the phone w/her mom: She wants her mama to visit, mama says it's a bad time, that she's finally moving. She insists it's what's best for her, and it's obvous Josie feels a lot differently about it. Kinda heartbreaking, how Josie wants to be close to these crappy parentals and they just cast her away to fend for herself. All she had for a rock was Grandma, and she's dead now.

Jen reveals a shocker...she's DISAPPOINTED that Deb left??? She hated her the most out of everybody! Ah yes... we NEED our shit to survive, don't we.

Kim refuses to get used to Deborah being gone. Like Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, or any other supernatural force of pure evil, she feels that Deborah will eventually be back.

Lock your doors...

Episode Seven

All the housemembers in the kitchen except one going on about how Deborah sucks. Guess who was missing.

Rhonda announces publicity photos are going to be taken today for the show. She tells them to dress "how you want the world to see you".

Rhonda talks over the photo shoot, about how today was a real opportunity for Deborah's redemption, how getting photos taken together is a real bonding moment for the group. But instead Deborah stays away from the group off to the side, all by herself.

They have a meeting afterward, each one saying what their outfit means about them. I'm a dude so I blacked out on this part. All I know is Kim's ensemble shows the least cleavage of anything she's worn yet, and this makes me sad.

Rhonda has them describe what would be the worst thing someone could say about their fashion sense. Then she gives the assignment for them to intentionally dress that way.

Kim's hooker walk [I'll explain later]... ohhhhhhhh. Sexy as hell.

Deborah is again crying on the phone, saying she's going to leave. Again.

Towanda has a dream about her fish. She says every time she has one, someone around her has become pregnant. And it's never her.

Kim goes on a field trip with Iyanla, the purpose purportedly to be for Kim to "draw on a new level of herself". Iyanla blindfolds her and leaves her in the woods. All it looks like to me is some sort of revenge on white folk for slavery. "Your Jag can't help you now, 'Massa'!"

Rhonda confronts Deborah about her cellphone conversation outside the van. Deb says the reason she wasn't honest about it is because the sex she had was with someone else's husband.

Rhonda wonders how to handle the dishonesty. She doesn't care about the sex. She cares about Deborah telling everyone over and over against that she's been celibate for six years. At the very least she didn't have to do that.

Rhonda says she'll have to meet with the other life coaches to discuss the situation, where Deb stays or goes.

Cut back to Kim blindfolded in the forest. Iyanla's still not far away, but man, this shit was kinda dangerous. She could've tripped and smashed her head into a hole. Once again it's a life lesson, that Kim should ask for help in life to get around.

Amy frrom Season One is back that night. The girls come out of their rooms all dressed in the worst nightmares of how people would view them. Jennifer-- frumpy. Towanda-- homely. Sinae- old [nice shawl]. Deb-- age inappropriate [heh, she looked like a four year old rapper]. Josie-- blase. Kim-- hooker [wearing less cleavage than before even! And a shirt unfortunately putting too much emphasis on her belly].

Rhonda gives them each a framed pic of the photo they took today.

Heh. And then she makes them go out dressed the way they are.

While they were out, Rhonda meets with Iyanla and the egg head dude. Iyanla's opinion about Deborah's explanations: "It's a lie, it's a scam, she still hasn't come clean." I agree.

The girls are out at a bar. Their waiter calls them "the seven dwarves on crack". Frumpy, Homely, etc.

Cut back to Rhonda really trying to sell that she feels this is an opportunity to heal the root causes of what's screwing with Deborah. Egghead dude agrees with everybody-- he thinks she's still lying, but he also agrees there's a chance to undo Deborah's need to do that and get her healthy again.

Episode Six

Alright, it was a blubberfest today. Let's get it started.

Deb on the phone with her daughter, still trying to talk about her abortion without a television audience of millions finding out.

Himbos come to the house to service Jenn, fanning her with tree branches and massaging her feet. Jen can't enjoy it. I hate it when people admit their faults, and they such saintly faults they must think they're gods and shit. "My major fault is I'm always doing things for everybody else." Aw, shit. Sounds like someone thinks they're perfect.

Iyanla makes her breakfast. Don't get me wrong, I still back Jen getting all this special treatment. "When was the last time someone made you breakfast?" Iyanla asks. "Never." Hey, that truly does suck.

Ok, I was wrong. Chloe's cute. I think it's cause her hair is at dude length at the moment, that's what threw me off.

GROUP W/ JEN: Jen shows everyone photos of her at 5 with her dad, when she was happy, a "daddy's girl". Protected. She says then he turned into a drug addict and started suckin.

She tells how she started buying everything that she needed herself at 12 cause she didn't want to be a bother to anyone, starts bawling about it. I thought Deb had a sympathetic look on her face, but that will turn out not to be the case. Jen tells everyone how she's "a giver not a taker", and not worth the attention.

Hey, Iyanla makes a good point! "She kept you off drugs, she kept you in school..." Referring to Jen as, "she", another person, so she could see how ridiculous it was for her to believe she doesn't deserve any pampering.

The rest of the housemembers are Jen's slaves for the day. Josie fetches her lunch. Sinae bakes her a cake. Deb gets her ice cream, blows up an inflatable raft for her underwater massage or some shit session that Jen has later that day. Jen's scared of Deborah. Ominous music plays as Deborah blows up the raft as Jen tells the audience she always feels that Deb has ulterior motives for anything good she does.

Jen meets w/egghead psych dude. He tells her she's been carrying a 10 year burden, her parent crap. "What are the POSITIVE traits you got from your father?" He asks. She can't think of a damn one. "Don't you have any good memories before you were five?" Before she was five? My only memory before five was my mom rubbing vegetable oil on my asshole cause I was constipated.

Chloe almost chokes. Josie freaks out. Hey, I feel her pain. I don't have no kid, but if I did, I'd be worried as hell about turning my back for a second and them possibly dying. That's what happened here, Chloe had some sort of buscuit in her mouth, Josie wasn't looking for a millisecond, blam, almost a choke. She would've been fine though, Josie being right there and all to try and get her to cough it up.

Jen has a freakin acquatic massage. Woohoo, it looks like lesbo action in the pool. "I was shocked it was so...loving," Jen says. Yeah, that was hot.

JOSIE SESSION W/RHONDA: Blubbers about the near choke, says she always wants to be there for her baby. She's a good mom. And she still knows that.

Rhonda does an exercise in which Josie admits that she doesn't deserve love or money, Jesus, what the hell is there? Water?

Jen almost bangs Chloe's head on the floor while playing with her! It's not even talked about or addressed at all.

Cut back to Rhonda with Josie: "Chloe doesn't redeem you, you have to do that yourself." Josie says she don't wanna.

Egghead w/Deb: asks her about her love life. I wonder if he knows about that little phone convo the camera crew caught. I halfway expected him after he got her to reiterate that she's been celibate for six years to accuse her of being a lying whore then cutting to the tape to rest his case.

Deb tells him about her morphing to fit in with the group. In the next scene with the housemembers she tells them she only plans to be "25% real", which made them laugh, and me. But it kinda made sense. She's only going to reveal a certain part of herself, and that part is going to be entirely truthful. Hmm.

Deb makes fun of Jen at the table. Baby voice, "Nobody loves me..." Damn. Jen is a little hard to take, being such a young anal skinny white girl, but damn. Having a dad in prison and a mom with M.S. isn't a ride in the park.

Jen with Iyanla, weeps about people doing shit for her today. Tells her how Deb was pissed off that Jen didn't use the raft Deb inflated for her for her acquatic massage deal [she didn't need it]. Hey, I'd be a little irked too, that was a big damn raft. Iyanla says Deborah was your angel today, that if your angel comes with a broken wing you don't make a big deal about it. Well, my angel told me to go fuck myself.

Jen starts crying like the kid she is. "I don't want to pay for it tomorrow..." i.e. Deb isn't going to have to do crap for Jen tomorrow, so the kid gloves will be off. "No you won't..." Iyanla insists. Yeah, she will.

Iyanla makes a note of Jen's huge fear of Deborah. "What does Deborah represent to you?" she asks. Jen being such a goody-2-shoe lookin' honky I halfway expected her to blurt out, "NIGGERS!"

Interesting that Jen misquotes Kim, who when Deborah was making fun of her problems Kim retorted, "I think she would gladly switch places with you...when it comes to the father issue." Jen only tells Iyanla the first part of what Kim said. Sigh. Sorry Jen, your problems aren't as big as Deborah's. They're big, but not that big.

Ergh, Iyanla goes back to that cheesy inner child shit. Then she just takes her in her arms and holds Jen, telling her to cry her head off until she's tired and can't cry any more. Good job, I.

Episode Five

Sigh. Deborah's packing to go home again. Apparently because of some conversation earlier in the morning with Kim, although specifics weren't gotten into.

The episode opens with Josie on the phone with Rhonda telling her what's happening. Kim gets on to explain more, how she's been begging her to stay. Wow, I didn't think she would do that. Pretty big of her.

Rhonda gets them to put Deborah on the phone, Deb says she's tired of crying every day.

The girls pay the cabbie that comes to pick her up to go away.

Deborah's such a pain in the ass, you want her to leave, then you come to your senses as a television viewer and hope she stays.

Rhonda to the rescue. She comes to the house, they all have a meeting, Deborah says she'll stay.

After the meeeting, Deborah goes for a drive accompanied by omiinous music. She gets out of the van to make a cell phone call... apparently it wont be on camera. They catch the audio. Something about her "having to leave for a few days" to "get this taken care of". Smells like a pregnancy.

Fire in the Starting Over house! Well, the backyard. Deborah didn't try and burn the house down, did she? If so, some homeless person who tried to start a little campout gets the blame. No one hurt, the house is fine.

Deborah eats chicken for breakfast. Pizza. No wonder she's got such a svelte figure.

Kim's pretty damn cool. Chatting with Deborah, Deb says she's gonna hide shit during her reveal cause she can't trust everybody. Kim tries to cheerlead for her to get naked.

Towanda's in a session with Iyanla. "Are you offended that your music career hasn't been more succesful?" Iyanla asks. Towanda says yea. Then Tow goes into how her dad the minister had an affair. Iyanla calls Towanda a big keeper of secrets, secrets she doesn't even know she's hiding.

Jennifer on the phone. It wasn't a mistake that I left her out of the list of housemembers I would like to nail... she was such a young stick, she didn't do much for me. Seein her sit in the chair with those shorts on changed all that though. She complains to her dude friend/boyfriend about how "the crazy lady tried to leave again".

It's time for Deborah's reveal. She shows a picture of her with her daughter, next tot the convertible she bought herself for her 40th birthday. Dang, her husband was pretty hot. Killed by a drunk driver. Deborah talks about how the hospital called her on the phone and only told him about all the broken bones he had...seeing him for the first time, how "crumpled" he looked. On life support. How she went to lift the back of his head to put it back on the pillow, and the back of his head wasn't there.

Ok Deb. Be as big a bitch as you want, girl. Wooh. That's some rough stuff.

Iyanla The Retard pipes in and forces everyone to hear how out of control her symbolism addiction is. During the funeral, their daughter took her first steps, started walking all around. Of course Iyanla ruins the moment with trying to make sense of it all. "She knew she had to walk on her own..." And she means it; she thinks that's why the damn kid got up and started running around. Deborah: "Wow, I never thought of that." Well, stop it.

Then, Deborah's BROTHER died of pneumonia! Of course, he was also a real important factor in her life as well. On the talkover she explains how she's been "celibate for years". Uh, ok... It's not like she's been totally closed off during this period-- she says she's gone on about 300 blind dates. Iyanla says that doesn't mean anything about how open she is to letting dudes into her life. Methinks she's onto something here.

Deb shows a pic of herself from 2 years ago. Damn. She's REALLY bulked up in that amount of time. Didn't look so bad in it, although there was still too much greasy afro sheen goin on even back in those days..

Deborah goes to the gym, talks to a trainer about her diet [her goal is supposedly to just lose the weight]. Says there's no way that she's not going to take the skin off her chicken. Is chicken skin THAT important, or tasty?

The ladies are told that night that they have a surprise guest coming to the house. "I hope it's a dude," Kim yearns. Yeah, baby..

Turns out it's that egghead they showed in the previews, the clinical psychiatrist whose part of the life coach team this year. A Mr. Stan Katz.

Uh-oh, a man in the house... Ergo, they all want to rip his balls off and kill him.

He tells them, hey I know you see men as the devil, I'm gonna try and help you deal with that, give you a man's perspective. He then asks what their father means to each of them.

Deb-- "reliable/dependable"; her father is the perfect man that no one can measure up to. Kim: "What father?" Jen: "What father?" Towanda: "perfect/cheater"-- she thought her dad was the perfect man, then he lied royally and that vision was fucked. Sinae "He chose my stepmom over me". I forget what Josie's father was, but he was equally heroic.

The show ends with Deborah on the phone busting a lethal smackdown on her daughter. Holy shit. She speaks in such vagaries about some sort of "information" that her kid was supposed to get for her, and then berates her pretty bad--it really was ugly to watch. Deborah seemed pretty disgusted with herself as well after she hung up, holding her head in her hands.

The translation of that cloudy conversation seemed to be, "Bitch, where's my goddamn abortion?"

Ohhhhhhh dear...

Episode Four

Saint Rhonda talks Deb into staying.

Heh. Kim reveals herself to be a Dr. Phil fan indirectly. Of course she does this by MIS-quoting him. In reference to Deborah she says, "Do you want to be right, or do you want to fix it?" I don't remember Phil's quote exactly, but that defenitely aint it. It's something like do you want to be right, or do you want people to want to hang around with your ass.

Rhonda takes Sinae to the eye doc. Yep, she's blind as a bat.

It's Kim's assignment to ask Deborah out to dinner. Deborah of course handles it strange. "That's like the President asking me out!" It's unclear if this was sarcasm.

They go out, and through most of their meal it looks like Kim wants to punch Debbie in the face. This definitely has "assignment" written all over it. Towards the end it gets nice though.

Sinae came home alone from the doc in a taxi. She brags about it to the house. Oh man.

Iyanla and Kim have a session, Iyanla shows Kim some cards. The first says "UGLY". The second, "JUDGEMENTAL". Kim weeps cause she says she's always felt ugly, aw shit. I want to bang her bad, she aint lookin too ugly to me. Next card: "SUPERIOR". Iyanla draws the incorrect analysis that this was what Kim was going for in a pic she showed to the group of herself, where her skirt pattern matched the pattern of her shopping bags. No, save it for another card. "RETARDED".

Towanda's big secret is revealed-- she's Toni Braxton's sister. I really relate to her sister-being-hugely-famous pain, or at least the odds are I will in the near future. Her and Toni were part of a singing group, Toni got signed as a solo artist and left. Then another group member left, and unlike Toni didn't even give them advanced notice about it happening. Group fell apart. Towanda sad and lost.

Towanda's assignment: go sing a capella at the mall. What the hell is her goal, to be homeless? Next assignment: make yourself a tin foil hat...

Rhonda tries to figure out the steps for Sinae's goal. During which it's revealed that Sinae is 18 and already a senior in college. Wooh, smart AND hot, nice package. Then she reveals that her boyfriend is black. Damn, ruined by the Jungle Love. When she gets the chance to do me, the sex for her will probably feel like she's doing a four year old.

Towanda goes to the mall and sings The Star Spangled Banner. She's very good, in that American Idol sort of way. Has all the talent in the world, but doesn't have a whole lot of taste in how she uses it. It's very "look at me".

Cut to Sinae wishing her blindness problem on all her family members. Well, not exactly. She wishes they were blind as bats too so they would accept her black boyfriend. Poke em out one by one [two by two], Sin-baby...

Kim shows Deborah Iyanla's card game, it looks like it's part of her assignment for Kim to tell everybody what a piece of crap she is. The card "UGLY" is revealed, and Kim confesses that she acts ugly by...putting on makeup.

"Let me get this straight... you act ugly by puttin on makeup???" Deborah can't swallow this honky horseshit. Yeah baby, keep it real.

Cut back to Towanda at the mall. She performed twice-- the first time with a sign saying "Towanda Smith" right beside her, the second one saying "Toni Braxton's sister". Life coach points out that the crowd acted positively to her both times, regardless of who she's related to. This may be true, but I could've sworn they went much more apeshit over "Toni Braxton's sister". Seemed like it at least.

Back at home, Towanda tells Deb about her day. Deborah starts singing the Star Spangled Banner herself. Everyone starts getting agitated, I didn't really mind. She has singing talent too. Cut to hours later, Deborah exercising on the patio, still fucking singing the song, Towanda and Kim inside on the couch wanting to strange the hell out of her.

Don't you hate those kind of people?

Episode Three

Chloe's ugly.

Her father is... Josie's best friend, supposebly. Someone she's known a long time. Sounds like a lot better daddy than that Johnathon guy. What a pain in the ass that dude is.

Deborah seemed pretty judgemental about the revelation to the group. "How could you have unprotected sex with all those men?" Josie was the bigger woman and didn't reply with anything like "Maybe because I'm halfway attractive".

Josie wants to conquer the world, at least enough to make life comfortable for her and her baby. Let us pray.

Iyanla takes them for a hippie class next to the water. "Many of us say we need That One Thing in order for our lives to become sucessful... write down what your One Thing is."

Jennifer says, "security". Sinae says, "ME". Hey, I wrote down the same answer, baby. Towanda says a freakin baby. Josie says "a home" (Didn't she heed Iyanla's lesson that home is in your heart, not in any place? Live with your child in an alley babe, it'll be fine). Deb said something like a mortage or something. Kim said "inner peace".

Iyanla then commands them to attach them to these little boats and have them sail away on the water... aw, shit. Kim's boat flipped over. Iyanala says that symbolizes she's a piece of crap.

They go home, Deborah eats on the back patio. Jennifer tells the audience she always eats alone.

Why is the blind bitch allowed to hold the baby??

Rhonda takes Nicole out to a balance beam. Has her hold rocks that symbolize responsibility. Can she BALANCE herself?

Man, they should get Mr. Miyagi from those Karate Kid movies to be a life coach next season. "Wax on laygeeness, wax off..."

Kim is holding a secret about Towanda. And she aint telling anyone till she does her reveal to the grouop.

Stability, support, healthy me/parenting. These are the goals Rhonda maps out for Josie. Josie talks about her grandma some more, graduating and visiting Grandma's grave. I feel you baby.

It's Kim's turn to do the reveal today. She shows everyone pics of her Jag. Her huge closet full of crap. Tells everyone she's a shopaholic. Deborah looks like she wants to kill her, and I'm ready to help her out. If only her hot boobage and legs weren't driving me so wild..

She says she had a "Disneyland father". She's estranged from her sister. We see the reason why she was picked for the show, because as she tells everyone, she's a timebomb. Anger managment issues.

For her self portrait she drew a stick figure... huh?

In the middle of Kim time Deborah of course yells out "I need to start sweating!!", crying like a baby to get this shit over with and go work out. The life coaches and group confront her about being unbearable. Deborah leaves to go pack her stuff.

Iyanla coaches Kim, getting her to admit "I am unworthy of love/forgiveness, etc." Aw, shit.

Cut back to Deborah packing and Rhonda desperately trying to talk her into staying. Rhonda throws down the gauntlet. "Are you going to let THEM choose your future for you?"

Wooh. Good job, baby. Muah.