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Rh Of New York Media; Recaps, Gossip, Blogs
Topic Started: Jan 17 2012, 08:51 PM (58,750 Views)
Freely
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It's rumorfix, actually http://rumorfix.com/2012/09/alex-mccord-to-aviva-drescher-grow-up-you-are-paid-to-cage-fight/
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Thanks Freely. Mariah, I hope you get to feeling better.
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Big sale on yummy tummy today till the 24th. Here's the link.
http://www.zulily.com/e/yummie-tummie-092012.html?email=Egriggs@nyc.rr.com

Tell me if you can see the link. You may have to sign up for zulily.com
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If you have any final questions for the NY crew, tweet or facebook Andy now b/c look at what Luann tweeted this morning. By the way, I think she looks great in the photo.
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LuAnn de Lesseps ‏@CountessLuAnn
The day has finally arrived! fun fun fun ;) #RHONY #reunion @Bravotv http://pic.twitter.com/YFQqKpPA
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Here is an old article on Aviva.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Zone%3A+I+lost+my+leg+in+an+accident+at+the+age+of+6,+but+I+fought+to...-a060390961
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"Even now, when I'm 28, they wake every morning feeling sad because this happened to me."

From the outset Aviva insisted on being treated her like an ordinary child.

"The kids at school knew what happened. I had a fixed and clumsy ankle and they used to stare.

"I found it hard not being like them because that was all I wanted."

"I was very uncomfortable wearing a bikini and going to the beach. My parents knew this and did a beautiful thing - they bought a house in Jamaica so I could have the freedom to run around in private."

As she grew to adolescence, even an amputation could not take away from her blossoming beauty.

But her deep-seated fears about her attractiveness remained.

"I was into every sport and even became captain of my high school volleyball team. But I was limited by what I could wear, and I felt I could not express myself."

When friends were experimenting with clothes, Aviva had to stick to long skirts, trousers and flat shoes that hid her prosthetic limb.

"Thin and 5ft 10in, I wanted a short skirt. Instead I settled for kneeboots."

She admits her disability was hard to bear on top of the normal burdens of the teenage years. "When I was younger, I kept it more of a secret. I had to grow up a bit before I could be comfortable with it."

"Boys she met often knew already. "If they did not, I felt an absolute obligation to tell them on the second date because I did not want to draw anyone in and then give them a shock.

But, when she was 13, a photographer friend of the family suggested Aviva try modelling.

IT WAS what she needed to banish her subconscious fears that she was not attractive. "It was important to me to feel like everyone else. I just did not feel as completely whole and beautiful as girls with two full legs."

From the start, it was made clear what assignments Aviva could do.

"I did head shots, and shampoo and make-up work. If they shot me standing up for a catalogue, they cut the picture off below the knee.

"I was cushioned. I was never sent for any kind of leg work. I was always very open about my limitations."

Throughout college, Aviva kept up her modelling as sideline to her law and language studies.

But, before the camera or not, however beautifully made up she was, Aviva always felt let down by her clumpy replacement limb.

Skin grafts from her thigh had been used to try to cover the wound. But, as her bones grew and started to push through the stump, she suffered agonising pain.

The excess skin from the graft also chafed against her prosthetic limb.

Clearly, a more practical, aesthetic alternative was needed. Yet that, she knew, would mean taking off more of her own leg.

"It occurred to me that if I was going to get married and have children, I did not want to have to care for my stump as well.

"I realised that a better prosthetic would make me more mobile and that would be better for my kids. In short, at the age of 26, I decided I did not want to be a caretaker for my leg."

Incredibly, Aviva chose to be awake through the amputation.

"I elected to have the surgery under an epidural because I did not want to take the risk of having a general anaesthetic. Also I was not really afraid of the mechanics of the operation.

"They gave me Valium at the start of the surgery and at first I was asleep. Then I woke up. The doctors knew I was conscious and they talked me through it.

"I think I must have been the only person in the history of medicine who, in the middle of it all, asked for a phone to call my mother because she was so nervous.

"They brought one to me as I lay on the table. I rang and told her: "Mommy, they are removing the leg now and everything is okay.

"I could hear the sawing noise at the end of the table, so I put my Walkman on and started listening to dance music."

The operation lasted about an hour and half.

Aviva remembers waking up next day and feeling "very very sad".

"I looked down and thought, 'Oh my God, my leg is so much shorter'.

"I was in extraordinary pain. But I went home four days later and I was pretty much on my feet in a couple of days. In no time, I was walking."

She had to wait a year for her new leg - and, when it arrived, it was a bitter disappointment.

"I was promised a leg that was realistic. But it wasn't.

"The colour was a ridiculous match and it was very heavy. It looked like they had pulled a leg off a mannequin.

"The people there did not care about the cosmetic aspect, the fact that I'm a woman and I wanted to look beautiful."

DESPERATE and depressed, Aviva began to believe she would never find a limb that felt and looked like a part of her own body. But then she met Aimee Mullins, an American model who had had both legs amputated. And that changed her mind.

"I was at a sports event when I saw this very pretty blonde woman. She was introduced on stage as having had a double amputation.

"Suddenly I was sure that this woman would know where to get the legs I needed.

"I waited to speak to her and, when I saw her legs up close, I could not believe my eyes.

"It was a revelation. I had never met a young, attractive person in my age group who had the same needs as I did.

"Aimee explained to me that the root of my difficulty lay in the fact that in America 77 per cent of amputees are men.

"The women tend to be older people who have lost limbs through cancer, blood clots or diabetes. There is no special provision for younger women."

Aimee's limbs had been made by British designer Bob Watts, one of top prosthetic-makers in the world, on the recommendation of British amputee Heather Mills.

"I never thought I would get to England," Aviva says. "But I told my parents and they said, 'Right, we're going'."

A few weeks later, Aviva was standing in front of a mirror in his studio in Hampshire, gazing for the first time at a limb that closely resembled what her own would have looked like.

She says: "I wanted to see what a lifelike leg would look like on me because the legs are virtually real.

"There was a leg there that had belonged to Heather Mills. I was the same fit. I put it on and looked in the mirror.

"'Wow,' I said to my mother, this looks like I have two real legs'.

"Bob uses a machine that takes the shape of your leg and exactly matches it.

"The shell is made out of silicone and then sprayed with a special chemical.

"But instead of looking shiny and fake, he matches the colour and even paints hair follicles, moles and little wrinkles on the toes and back of the heels. They don't just match the colour of your toe nail. They match the colour of the crescent in your toe nail. These legs are made by artists.

The leg even comes complete with a foot shaped to fit heel height - so Aviva can wear stilettos for the first time.

"I can wear knee-length dresses, although you can still see the break in the knee. I can even get pedicures for both feet.

"When I finally got my new leg from Bob, my boyfriend was so amazed by how lifelike it was, he called it the Thing, after the moving hand in the Addams Family!

"If I cross my legs, he can't tell which is the false one."

Aviva has always worn her limb more than 80 per cent of the time, except in bed. She is reluctant to have her stump on view, even when she is completely relaxed in a relationship.

"I feel better about myself when I have my leg on," she explains.

"It is wonderful to be close and in love. But I believe that familiarity breeds contempt.

"Even in marriage, I think it is wonderful to have a little bit of mystery.

"I believe in closing the bathroom door unless needs be.

"If my boyfriend had a cut, I wouldn't expect him to flaunt it. It's the same with my leg.

"It's something that is not attractive. It's like if you have a pimple, you try to hide it, not show it off."

Her shyness meant that early in their relationship Aviva slept with the leg on, despite the discomfort.

"Eventually, I told Harry, 'I have to start to taking it off at night'.

"He was great. He joked, 'Okay, but you'd better watch out because I might steal it!'

"To be honest, though, I think it took Harry a little time to be completely comfortable with it. But if he wasn't comfortable, he never showed it."

MODELLING, more than anything else, has helped Aviva come to terms with her affliction. Though she still wonders why she was given so much, only to have so much taken away.

Now she has decided that 15 years is enough.

"I know how easily beauty goes. I wanted to do more with my life," she says.

Which is why she has finally taken up a career as a lawyer.

"My mother always told me that beauty is all about imperfections anyway. Everyone has their baggage and it is all relative.

"Top models today have moles, and big noses, and awkward, funny lips. I have another kind of imperfection."

Aviva insists that she has never felt sorry for herself. That she has never wondered why she was given so much - and had so much taken away.

"It's true I have been frustrated by not being able to wear certain shoes, or disappointed when I've seen a beautiful dress with a split down the middle that I can't wear.

"But my philosophy is that God gives people what they can handle. And I believe he gave me this because he knew I could handle it.

"I am just glad that losing my leg is the worst of my troubles."

Edited by Finestra, Sep 20 2012, 04:00 PM.
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I don't know how to interpret this actually. I feel just awful about what happened to her but would she have thought beauty was this important even if she never lost her leg? Her mother was a model. Wonder what she says to her children regarding beauty.
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I was blown away that they bought a house in Jamaica so she could hide away while enjoying the sun. That's mixed message right there.
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Well we knew they did everything for her and created a monster imho. She got everything she wanted forever. I am wondering when this anger instead of compassion arose. I don't think her parents wagged their fingers in her face or the like. They probably waited on her hand over foot- oops couldn't help that.
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I'd think a former model who was soooo concerned with beauty and appearances would be better about brushing her hair while filming a reality show. Seriously, half the time her hair looks like it hasn't been washed or brushed in days.
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She needs one of those Keratin treatments I got.
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Finestra
Sep 20 2012, 04:50 PM
I was blown away that they bought a house in Jamaica so she could hide away while enjoying the sun. That's mixed message right there.
I am blown away that she laid awake on an operating table, listening to the whir of a saw taking off her leg but she has a hard time flying in a small plane.
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And how sheltered was she? Before she met Aimee the only people who were amputees were older? Honey, there are lots of people out in the world who have been in accidents and have amputations. She just seems to think she is a precious little rose nipped in the bud, doesn't she?

I do sympathize with the pain she must have gone through, but really? She didn't want to be out for the surgery? Wow, Aviva.... take the meds!! (maybe that is her problem, she needs regular medication!) I am writing this through a head splitting headache and I wish I had some "good meds" right now....
Edited by discomom, Sep 20 2012, 06:43 PM.
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Yuck - I'm sitting here eating dinner and reading that article ...a warning that the article was gonna talk about stumps, saws and bones growing through wounds would have been nice.

LOL

Aviva is a weird one - she's clearly very vain. I wonder if her anger is b/c she loves the attention, but loathes that it's b/c she's missing a limb. I think that insecurity is why she has it out for Sonja. Sonja represents all the two legged women that Harry fucked while they were together. I think she's got a death grip on Ried b/c she's afraid he'll go cheat too.
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Sorry Shopper -*NSFD*

Ryebread - I was shocked by that too. When did she start getting phobias? She seemed pretty ballsy when she was younger. I wonder if it came with having kids.
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I think I read in her blog (?) that it was having the kids Finestra. At least that's what she claims.
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