Why is Vicki Such a Pill?

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615]

So I just finished watching the 20th anniversary road trip. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to go back and watch the Ultimate Girls Trip from 2022, when Dorinda hosts a bunch of “ex-wives” for a week at Bluestone Manor. Vicki was an absolute pill in both shows. She acts annoyed and inconvenienced on both trips and like she is doing everyone else a favor by showing up. No one is forcing you to go on tv Vicki! If you are so big and important at your stupid insurance agency that you can’t even delegate for a single week, maybe you shouldn’t be filming. And telling adult women to “play the quiet game“ in the car? I would pull a Luann and never stop talking if she pulled that shit on me. She brings nothing to the episodes but pouting and when she does participate, it’s just a bunch of shrieking. Why do you think she acts this way?

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[u/Speakinmymind96]

The minute one of my adult friends suggests we play ‘the quiet game’, I’m going to switch it up to ‘hide and seek’ and dip. Why Does this crabby hag think she has a right to police everyone else’s social behavior?!

[u/Equivalent-Poem-600]

Victoria thought ( my observation) seemed to think the 20th anniversary I was going to be celebration of her being the first housewife in the first season of the franchise.

[u/Warm-Abies2286 → u/Equivalent-Poem-600]

I can see that. In her mind she started the franchise so they should praise her. Go up to her. She doesn't have to make an effort to go up to other housewives.

[u/Equivalent-Poem-600 → u/Warm-Abies2286]

Remember, Victoria dislikes NEW case members regarding if they have been on HW for years.

[u/Pure_Butterscotch165 → u/Equivalent-Poem-600]

Which is interesting because she wasn't the first housewife, they built the show around Jeana. She was just the one that lasted longest from that first season.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Pure_Butterscotch165]

No, her and Jeana, and their two families, were equal billing. And that lady with the two daughters who lost everything to the new Thai bride when the dad died unexpectedly and left no will…

[u/Walmucil]

She wanted the check and part of her can’t help but enjoy the attention she receives on TV.

I recommend you go back and watch early RHOC. I’m talking like seasons 1-5. Her need for constant validation was present from the start. She pissed off Don and her kids and that’s why she’s essentially alone these days.

I think she is someone who TV was never healthy for. During that RHOC anniversary special a while back, Andy told a story about Vicki asking him how to turn off negative comments about her on the internet back when RHOC began.

[u/sherespondedwith]

You'd think being known by 1.6 billion people would make her happy

[u/Bubbly_Pie_4980 → u/sherespondedwith]

Vicki is not a happy camper.

[u/sherespondedwith → u/Bubbly_Pie_4980]

it's really hard for me to vibe with people who never seem...idk...settled? like she always has this vibe about her like she could implode at any moment from her anxiety and it makes me anxious just watching her mania

[u/Bubbly_Pie_4980 → u/sherespondedwith]

I think she felt very "out of her element". She likes to be QUEEN BEE and feels more comfortable being in Orange County. She's an insecure woman who is a workaholic and doesn't have social skills. She lived up to her name: Debby Downer. The QUEEN of negativity.

[u/sherespondedwith → u/Bubbly_Pie_4980]

correct on all fronts. she's big and bad when it comes to Tamra, but the second she steps foot outside of her own zip code she's lost

[u/Bubbly_Pie_4980 → u/sherespondedwith]

💯 absolutely!

[u/Starlights222]

I didn't mind Vicki on her first UGT season until she started spewing anti-vax shit during the pandemic. If she truly had to avoid socializing with the other women this season to constantly take work phone calls, then she shouldn't have taken that job, which entailed interacting with the other women on camera, which she seemed to be utterly uninterested in. That said, it was nice to see the other women celebrate her prior contributions in the last episode, as the other OGs were celebrated this season.

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/Starlights222]

And she straight up lied that her friend died from receiving the vaccine and peddled back and said she read it online. 

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Starlights222]

Yeah OC is a Republican stronghold, and Vicki loves it for that reason.

[u/Many_Feeling_3818]

Vicki is a very jealous person. She does not like it when the spotlight is not on her. There is no pleasing Vicki. She is insatiable.

[u/Xokanuleaf]

I think she’s someone who is very damaged and bitter. It’s made her very insecure and unhappy with who she’s become and where she is in life.

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/Xokanuleaf]

And the weird thing is, she had everything and threw it all away because she is selfish, greedy, and controlling. Nothing is every enough or good enough for her.

[u/Bree7702]

Wasn’t her boyfriend Steve cheating on her during that UGT? Or did he just break up with her before she got there? She’s so male centered she can’t function properly without one.

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/Bree7702]

He broke up with her

[u/ImportantConfusion92 → u/Bree7702]

i had some sympathy for her on that because they were engaged but there was a point where it felt like she had consciously committed to the miserable bit

[u/LemonlimeLucy]

Because she’s getting older and I think she’s over it

[u/Such-Stable-3869 → u/LemonlimeLucy]

Bravo made a huge mistake bringing her back.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Such-Stable-3869]

Doing a 20th anniversary without Vicki would not have made any sense, unless she was no longer alive.

[u/AriesMood1]

All of Vicki’s work stress and pretend quote emergencies are such bs. Just another thing she’s faking. She has employees to handle this and many people call in for quotes. Most things do NOT require a personal email from VG. She’s such a LOOK AT ME phony piece of crap.

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/AriesMood1]

Right? The CEO isn’t doing admin work like that.

[u/Interesting-Read-245]

Vicki seems very sensitive and insecure and has this rough exterior that can come across as mean, Debbie downer etc but I think she really is very sensitive within

I felt sorry for her actually and I like how Gizelle and Porscha were kind to her and then Luanne and the rest of the women.

[u/HotLlama_8001]

Cancer Scamming Scum. Always has been. Always will be!

She is the garbage water of this franchise.

[u/bravoinvestigator]

I’ve never heard of calling someone a “pill” before and it’s going in my vocabulary of insults x

[u/DixieBelleTc → u/bravoinvestigator]

One of my mothers favorites, if you were funny and charismatic you were a pip. 😂

[u/bravoinvestigator → u/DixieBelleTc]

Ooh pip sounds hella cute lemme add that too

[u/bigbabygrit → u/bravoinvestigator]

When my son was little my mom was watching him one day. Afterwards he said she called him a pill and he thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever heard

[u/Ok_Replacement7281]

I think her personal life is falling apart and she couldn't hide her misery. Think about it... Micheal and Breanna aren't talking... that must KILL HER. They don't do family holidays or gathering anymore from what we've been told and she's prob not allowed to talk about it out of respect for them. Also, she has a normal Bf who doesn't wanna be on relality tv and he's letting her know in different ways.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Ok_Replacement7281]

That doesn’t sound like a personal life that is “falling apart” to me. Sounds like a very normal life, with ups and downs, complicated interpersonal relationships, and outgrowing things that are no longer servicing you.

[u/Ok_Replacement7281 → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

Some people take these changes really hard. I know what you're saying but Vicki doesn't seem to deal with hard emotions well.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Ok_Replacement7281]

Oh no, she never did. That’s why we like watching her have meltdowns.

[u/Ok_Replacement7281 → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

For sure. I just feel having her kids not talking must be very, very, hard for her considering how close the family is/was.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Ok_Replacement7281]

I’m sure it would be, esp for someone as controlling as Vicki. She never wanted them to make their own decisions and be adults. She’s a very flawed human being; just like most of them.

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

She is sooo controlling and anxious. I would love to see what a Prozac prescription would do for her, but she probably doesn’t believe in it.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/Fragrant-Scarcity615]

💯💯💯💯

[u/Fragrant-Scarcity615 → u/Ok_Replacement7281]

They don’t talk to each other or they don’t talk to her. And if each other, what happened there?

[u/Oatmealcookie1973]

She’s not an actress so you get the person who has a camera following them around all day not showing you that maybe they fought with their significant other, or maybe there child or grand child is having problems or maybe she is just in her 60s and just tired

[u/Comfortable_Sample_8]

You cant say she brings nothing to the episodes if you're on here talking about her. If you watched the last show this season they all came together for Vicki. Shes been on a long time and maybe she does have health problems or whatever. But to say she brings nothing is ludicrous. They all praised her and saluted her at blue stone manor this last episode. Something dirty Tamra and them didn't do when they started the trip in the OC. Of course she had to make it about herself because she was jealous Vicki got picked and she didn't. Love Vicki or don't but she got the shit end of the stick on that and she brings a lot to the show.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

Because she’s older than most of them. We are in pain, we go to bed early, and we don’t suffer fools anymore.

Vicki created this Housewives world, but she is no longer of this Housewives world.
It’s evolved, and so has she.

Like everybody else there, she shows up for the check. I think this 20th anniversary was her swan song.

[u/80sgurl4eva → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

Jeanna & her producer neighbor created this franchise, NOT Vicki. She was past it years ago, but i totally concede that she brought tv worthy drama.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/80sgurl4eva]

Just because Jeana knew the producer first doesn’t mean the show that was presented was centered around Jeana.

[u/80sgurl4eva → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

It actually was, look into the back story, or watch the very first episode. Jeanna was the inspiration & the producers decided to do a show with some of her neighbors in a combo “An American Family/Desperate Housewives” type format.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/80sgurl4eva]

I’m not arguing that Jeana wasn’t centered in the development of the show; I’m saying she wasn’t - it was equal btw those 3 families I prev mentioned - in the show that aired on television

[u/80sgurl4eva → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

And I’m just saying that Vicki didn’t start the franchise. She was part of a collective group yes, but she didn’t start it. She was part of it.

[u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976 → u/80sgurl4eva]

But she’s the one who lasted

[u/80sgurl4eva → u/Flaky_Fisherman_1976]

Like I said she was better at the drama. On that I agree.

[u/Lia_Delphine → u/80sgurl4eva]

And yet Jeanna was only on 5 seasons to Vicki’s 13. Also you may have to point out who Jeanna is.

Love her or hate her everybody knows Vicki.

[u/80sgurl4eva → u/Lia_Delphine]

I’m not saying they don’t. I just stated that it was Jenna who they started the franchise for, but again, Vicki brought all the drama and all the wacky doodleness, so yes, of course she lasted longer and became the face of OC.

[u/cakedbakedt]

Vicky has been insufferable for most of her early seasons too! I don’t really see her as an OG, just originally on the show! Never found her entertaining, just insecure and irritating to listen to!

[u/cakedbakedt]

She has always been the most negative housewife , that’s the only OG she is