Former reality star and journalist, Carole Radziwill says she dumbed herself down for the cameras as a cast member of the “The Real Houswives of New York City.” And she says she regrets it.
“My one little regret is I did make myself smaller to be on the show,” she revealed in a new cover story with The Mountains magazine.
The former documentarian and ABC News journalist, who married into the Kennedy clan, said she wished, when conversation permitted, she would’ve mentioned that “I was in Afghanistan during the war… I was in the Gulf War… I used to spend a lot of time in refugee camps in Cambodia.”
But Radziwill avoided such worldly topics “to fit in with the women,” she said.
“I think I would’ve been considered much more formidable… But, in the end, I didn’t want to show off,” she said.
(Something tells us dishing with Ramona Singer about wars and refugee camps probably wouldn’t have kept her on the air on for five seasons.)
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Radziwill confessed that she’d never watched the show before joining the cast. And, she added, “I’d never been around women who would talk like they talked or drank like they drank.”
After all, Radziwill’s inner circle included the late John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, whom she described as “the equivalent of what they now call a girl’s girl.”
“Carolyn was authentic before authenticity became a catchphrase,” she said.
Perhaps, Radziwil will have another chance at bringing more depth on the spinoff “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” on Peacock.
“I’d go on a girls trip with the coolest, most fun chick from each city, but I don’t know who that is because I don’t watch ‘Housewives,’” she concluded.
